Great costumes don’t need to be pricey. The best are normally made at home or bought cheaply from recycled stores. These Pleasant Valley students stood out from the spooky bunch this Halloween.
Seniors Kaylynne Nowak, Ramya Kumar and Nia Howse had a group costume in mind this Halloween. This Fall, the three saw the blockbuster horror film “It.” “We all saw the movie together and really loved the characters,” Kumar and Howze commented. Howse, dressed as Mike Hanlon (played by Chosen Jacobs), and had most of her costume already at home and made a couple of purchases from Goodwill. Nowak, dressed as Eddie Kaspbrak (played by Jack Dylan Grazer), made the cast from items found in her house. Kumar, dressed as Richie Tozier (played by Stranger Things star, Finn Wolfhard), bought her hawaiian shirt from Goodwill as well. The three together were “The Losers Club”, the group of social misfits from “It”, and it worked perfectly.
For Halloween this year, Junior Jen Miller dressed as rap sensation, Macklemore. Her look was inspired by the popular song “Thrift Shop”, which took pop culture by storm when the 2013 music video was released. Miller says, “I decided to dress up as Macklemore because I wanted to be something creative no would else would be!” Miller found the clothes for her outfit at Ragstock, a recycled clothing store in Northpark mall.
Seniors Elissa Moylan and Lexi Neal have always dressed up together for Halloween. They were brainstorming ideas for do it yourself costumes and they came across two girls in bubble machine costumes and they loved the idea. “We thought they were super cute and no one at our school had done it before so we decided to do it,” Neal said. They bought their clothes from Ragstock and the puff balls from Hobby Lobby and hot glued them on the shirts. “It was a lot easier than we thought it was going to be!” Moylan and Neal said.
Sophie Bergman stole the show on Halloween this year. In middle school, Bergman made it to the national spelling bee in Washington, D.C. “I thought it would be funny to dress up as something from my past,” Bergman said. Her number placard is from when she was on ESPN for the spelling bee and luckily, her mother saved all of her belongings from the event.
From rap icons to spelling bee champions, the Pleasant Valley Spartans made sure to dress to impress this Halloween.
