Couple Costume- Get Inspirations From Romeo and Juliet or Jon and Kate Gosselin

One easy way to come up with couple costume is to get inspiration from the Renaissance era. Most icons or figures who are still well known today are Romeo and Juliet, Count Dracula and his Bride/s and Frankenstein and his bride.  

Let’s take Romeo and Juliet as your couple costume this Halloween. Ideal for the couple who are so enamored with each other. They may take to this costume if they are trying to convey a message that they will defy all odds to fight for their romance. Romeo’s male couple costume is distinctively Renaissance era because of the white puffed sleeves pan shirt under a fancy buttoned up tunic with slashed sleeves and velvet knickers over black stockings and buckled leather shoes. There’s also the hooded floor length cape and the feathered hat. 

Juliet’s gown as the female counterpart of this couple costume can be of simple velvet material with lace-up bodice that ends with the gown’s princess cut. Puffed sleeves also accentuates the Renaissance look with the arm of the sleeves narrowing down to the wrists and ends in lace trimmings. The gown has two layers with the under layer slightly longer than the top layer to reveal fine lacework at the edges. The upper layer is of velvet material probably to keep the women warmer. Juliet’s cap and veil will give her the innocence of a beautiful young girl who falls in love for the first time but with the wrong man. As the couple costume for Halloween, Juliet should perhaps carry a bottle of poison to give its relevance to the eve’s death theme. Romeo on the other hand should have a dagger in his outfit.        

Now if you’re the type of couple who doesn’t want to go to party with a too cheesy theme, try mixing up your gender. Let the guy don Juliet’s gown and the girl be the Romeo. If you would like to be a little more up to date with your couple costume without having to spend much on clothes, you could probably hire a make-up artist who can transform you into Jon and Kate Gosselin, the reality –TV show couple who’s messed up lives became a matter of public interest.       

To make the couple costume easily identifiable, Kate Gosselin’s hairstyle makes use of the 80’s look, where the top seems to have more fullness than the lower length of the hair. The Jon Gosselin typical get-up are casual T-shirts and pants but add rhinestone earring and hair grease.        

Although these are not the only couple costume to choose from, the examples are just to provide contrast in the characters you can get inspirations from. There now, you can be a pair of star-crossed lovers and get all mushy and cheesy throughout the evening or get carried away and be the warring Kate and Jon Gosselin. Bicker at each other so people won’t have a hard time figuring out who your couple costume depicts.    

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