{"id":3928,"date":"2018-04-30T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsa.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2018-04-30T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T12:40:13","slug":"guest-post-costume-in-my-closet-american-horror-story-coven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/guest-post-costume-in-my-closet-american-horror-story-coven\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest post: Costume in my closet – American Horror Story: Coven"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t been following Miranda over at Spooky Little Halloween<\/a>, you\u2019re seriously missing out. She is an awesome chick, her blog is absolutely loaded with Halloween goodies, plus a kick ass newsletter and e-zine. For Halfoween this year we decided to guest post\/blog swap with one another, so check out her \u201cCostume in my closet\u201d post below! You can also wander over to her site and read my blog about visiting Salem over Halloween on a budget<\/a>.\u00a0Enjoy!! <3<\/p>\n

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What kind of Halloween costumes are lurking in your closet? Probably more than you\u2019d think! I\u2019m not talking about store-bought Halloween costumes or even handmade costumes you spent too many hours creating to discard. What kind of costumes could you make from the clothes you wear every single day?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a question I ask myself often, actually. Partly because I believe every day should be Halloween, but mostly because coming up with a killer Halloween costume shouldn\u2019t be difficult. It should be as simple as walking into your closet!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what I did to come up with my American Horror Story: Coven-inspired costume I wore to a local museum event recently. (One that would be perfect for wearing around Witch City this Halloween season too!)<\/p>\n

I may be in the minority, but I loved AHS: Coven. Since New Orleans is just a day trip away for me here in Houston, I spent the full season daydreaming of attending\u00a0Miss Robichaux\u2019s\u00a0Academy\u00a0for Exceptional Young Ladies, wearing gorgeous black dresses and strengthening my Seven Wonders power.<\/p>\n

But really\u2026I just wanted to wear all those dresses and hats.<\/p>\n

As a Halloween blogger, I\u2019ve acquired quite the collection of black dresses over the years, so I knew putting together a Coven-inspired costume wouldn\u2019t be hard. I\u2019d just need the right combination of items. I went digging through my closet to see what I could find.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I came up with:<\/p>\n

\"american<\/p>\n

I modeled my\u00a0costume after the one Zoe wears as the girls of Robichaux Academy parade through the streets of New Orleans:<\/p>\n

\"american<\/p>\n

[Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an exact match, I know, but I made sure the look hit the high points: black hat with a stiff brim, flowing black dress that goes past the knee and black boots.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite things about costumes from your closet is they don\u2019t have to be identical. (Trust me, I\u2019ve stressed out about costumes being picture perfect<\/strong> over the years\u2026and it isn\u2019t worth it.) As long as you are picking up on the key details of the character you\u2019re trying to recreate, you\u2019d going to be successful.<\/p>\n

I ended up wearing my costume to an event at a local museum, and my friend Shelia was kind enough to snap a few photos of the costume in action!<\/p>\n

\"american<\/p>\n

\"american<\/p>\n

Dressing as the girls from AHS: Coven would be a simple group Halloween costume to pull together last-minute too! Any combination of black hats and dresses will do\u2026but you\u2019ll each have to bring your own bitchcraft attitude. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"american<\/p>\n

\"american<\/p>\n

So think about some of your favorite TV shows, movies or books and let me ask again\u2026what costume is lurking in your closet?<\/p>\n

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Miranda Enzor<\/strong> is the Houston-based writer, blogger and Halloween lover behind Spooky Little Halloween, the blog celebrating October 31st all year long. She celebrates her favorite day of the year by hosting her annual party, Halloweenie Roast, and is addicted to pumpkin guts, witches\u2019 brews, skulls and all things spooky. Visit her blog at spookylittlehalloween.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t been following Miranda over at Spooky Little Halloween, you\u2019re seriously missing out. She is an awesome chick, her blog is absolutely loaded with Halloween goodies, plus a kick ass newsletter and e-zine. For Halfoween this year we decided to guest post\/blog swap with one another, so check out her \u201cCostume in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1928],"tags":[2407,2409,2408,2410,2411,2406,1322,162,33,2306,1942,847,1186,163,18,19,20,21],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-posts","tag-american-horror-story","tag-american-horror-story-coven-halloween-costume","tag-american-horror-story-coven","tag-costume-in-my-closet","tag-easy-halloween-costume","tag-halloween-costume","tag-halloween-costume-inspiration","tag-halloween-in-salem","tag-haunted-happenings","tag-haunted-happenings-2018","tag-haunted-happenings-salem-ma","tag-historic-new-england","tag-historic-salem","tag-october-in-salem","tag-salem","tag-salem-ma","tag-things-to-do-in-salem","tag-things-to-do-in-salem-ma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thingstodoinsalem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}