Madonna Halloween Costume Ideas
Name a hair style, a hair color, a fashion item, or a fad and there's a good chance that Madonna has tried it out. Though Madonna's career is still going relatively strong, the Material Girl is perhaps best remembered for her iconic 80s costumes and styles. Madonna was doing Lady Gaga-esque things with fashion and music when Gaga was hardly a Lady at all. The most popular Madonna Halloween costume ideas are costumes that mimic some of her looks from music videos in the 1980s. Madonna costumes are perfect for 80s themed events, as she performed throughout much of the decade, and ended the 80s one of the biggest stars in the world.
Like A Virgin -- The white wedding dress, scandalous white lace
gloves, strings of pearls, and wild blond hair are instantly recognizable as
Madonna in the music video for her hit song "Like a Virgin". The white
wedding dress she wears in that video is a kind of send up of sexual
identity and politics in the 80s, one of the first public statements made
against the idea of celibacy, and a cultural high point for the sometimes
culturally devoid 1980s.
Gold Bikini -- Another Madonna icon is the gold and black bodice and skirt look from a string of concerts she gave in the 80s. You remember the gold and black bodice -- her breasts were covered in an extremely pointy "brassiere", wearing torn fishnet stockings and a top ponytail. A lot of makeup and a pair of high heels completes this ubiquitous 80s Madonna look.
Who's That Girl -- Madonna's 1987 "Who's That Girl" tour found the pop star venturing a bit into the world of Postmodernism. Madonna's outfits on this tour were a pastiche of different styles, from 1950s style cat eye glasses to dresses collaged together from costume jewelry and fake fruit. This is an easy Madonna era to imitate in a Halloween costume, as there are tons of photos of her outlandish outfits and because her costumes are just so weird and disjointed, you could pretty much get away with anything as long as you slap on a blond wig and a beauty mark.
Putting together a decent Madonna costume requires a little bit of research and a ton of shopping. If you aren't going to buy a pre-fabricated Madonna costume, you'll simply have to dig around at second hand stores to find the different pieces that make up her weird looks.