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Prisoner Costume – Break Out Your Inner Convict This Halloween

Hey, it's almost Halloween and you're still looking for that special costume. If you’re fed up of the procrastination and need a dab of inspiration then what about a prisoner costume. This article will cover a few super fun ideas for original Halloween costumes.

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Prisoner costumes can fit the bill on both of the key objective of any partygoer at a Halloween party. You can have a good laugh and giggle dressed as a prisoner – I call this the slapstick prison costume. Or you can frighten people at the party with the creepy prison penitentiary look.

The slapstick costume is the old stereotype black and white striped outfit. It conjurors up images of the kind of outfits that were worn in the silent comedy movies era, like the keystone cops or such like. You know the one's where the convicts are being chased by the mad cap cops and all sorts of painful looking collisions and catastrophes occur. Its kind of funny for a few minutes but they used to lap this kind of comedy up in the 1920′s.

Anyhow, dressed in a top, pants and a good old prison cap (all black and white of course) you'll look like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd. Get some custard pies at the ready for a classic custard pie in the face routine. Well you don't have to actually do that, but get into the spirit of the costume and you'll have a good time.

The scary version of the prisoner costume is the modern looking outfit – the penitentiary jumpsuit. You’ve probably seen it on TV on the news when celebrity felons like OJ Simpson or Robert Downey Jr. (although he's been keeping his nose squeaky clean these days) are lead to and from court. Invariably it is the color orange.

If you add a muzzle mask to the jumpsuit look then you have a psychotic serial killer on your hands. Not the most pleasant thought but if you want to scare people at Halloween then this option certainly ticks all the boxes. The iconic psycho killer is Hannibal Lecter of course. Do a little homework and find out a few of his famous lines and really live up to the role at the party. Anyone for faver beans and a nice Chianti ?

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