Isabella Vidales made handmade crochet items for her Halloween costumes. ISABELLA VIDALES/COURTESY
By Lauren Raziano, Multimedia Editor
Halloween allows students to dress up and wear whatever character or personality they want. MC Students embraced the Halloween weekend by sporting creative and unique outfits around campus and the city. Read on to get the scoop from The Quadrangle about five students’ spooky looks.
Cynthia Cruz ’25 and Maddie Siefert ’24
CYNTHIA CRUZ/ COURTESY
Featured Costume: Glow in the dark stick figures
English Secondary Education & History Secondary Education
The Quadrangle: You did a duo costume, how did you decide what costume to wear this year?
Cynthia Cruz: It was honestly a really last minute decision, but we wanted to do something funny and creative for Halloween, so we made an entire list of costume ideas. Out of all the ideas, we decided on the one that was college student budget friendly and hilarious to think about.
TQ: Did you craft or make any cool unique items to compliment your costume?
Maddie Siefert: I actually bought a ton of glow sticks from Target, along with safety pins, duct tape and a hot glue gun. We only ended up really using the glow sticks and duct tape.
TQ: What do you think is an important decision when choosing a costume?
CC: The weather. If it’s freezing outside for Halloween, we’re definitely bundling up. We think that creativity is also an important decision when it comes to choosing costumes.
TQ: Any advice for students who want to make a creative costume?
CC: Definitely create a list of ideas yourself and then share that list with your friends. You can either choose from the list or think of an entirely new idea together. Do whatever you want, Halloween is that night to be whatever you want.
TQ: How many costumes did you plan out for Halloween weekend?
CC: Way too many. We both had 3 costumes in total for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Christopher Colavito ‘25
Feature Costume: Stella fromWinx
Biology
The Quadrangle: How did you decide what costume to wear this year?
Christopher Colavito: Most of my friend group did a group costume to do the Winx Club. My friend Analia came up with the idea because I know she really likes Winx and we had enough people to do it. In order to choose who was going to be which character was chosen actually by a BuzzFeed quiz that was for seeing what Winx club member you are. I did have a little tiff with my other friend Maddie because we both wanted to be Bloom, but the quiz settled it as it said I would be Stella and she would be Bloom.
TQ: What do you think is an important decision when choosing a costume?
CC: An important part of making a decision on a costume is seeing what you can afford or what you already have on hand to add to this year’s idea.
TQ: How many costumes did you plan out for Halloween weekend?
CC: I originally planned to do two costumes; the Winx club costume for Friday night and Allan from the Barbie movie for Saturday night. However, the Allan costume never came in the mail so I just did Winx for both nights.
TQ: What is your favorite Halloween tradition?
CC: My favorite Halloween tradition is returning the costume after the weekend to get your money back.
TQ: If you could wear only one costume for the rest of your life, what would you wear and why?
CC: If I could only wear one costume for the rest of my life, if it was for literally everyday it would be my Eddie Munson costume I did last year because it looks like the most regular. If it’s that I can only wear one costume for every Halloween again it would be this year’s Winx costume.
Isabella Vidales ‘25
Featured Costume: Crocheted Strawberry Shortcake & frog
Economics, Spanish minor
The Quadrangle: Describe your costume, how did you decide what costume to wear this year?
Isabella Vidales: I chose the frog costume because I had a lot of green yarn left over from making the hat for my Strawberry Shortcake costume! My friend group had planned to do all the characters.
TQ: Did you craft or make any cool unique items to compliment your costume? Makeup?
IV: For the Strawberry Shortcake one, I crocheted a strawberry hat and a long-sleeved shrug. I also crocheted a frog hat and green top for another night!
TQ: What do you think is an important decision when choosing a costume?
IV: Find something that makes you excited to wear it!
TQ: Any advice for students who want to make a creative costume?
IV: Definitely don’t wait until the last minute in case it all goes wrong.
TQ: What is your favorite costume you ever wore?
IV: [It would] probably [be] the cow onesie I wore when I was a toddler, it would moo when you pushed on the stomach!
Lewis Forster ‘28
Featured Costume: USA Flag
Mechanical Engineering
The Quadrangle: You dressed as the USA, how did you decide what costume to wear this year?
Lewis Forster: Well, my original idea was to be a Queen’s Guard, but Amazon had canceled my order so I had to take a quick trip to Spirit Halloween. I saw the American costume and just thought it would be super ironic.
TQ: Did you craft or make any cool unique items to compliment your costume? Makeup?
LF: I borrowed my friend’s bumbag and white sunglasses to add to the costume, mainly because I had no pockets.
TQ: What do you think is an important decision when choosing a costume?
LF: First, you have to decide whether you want it to be actually “scary” or just a funny dress up, and whichever you choose, you gotta go big or go home.
TQ: Any advice for students who want to make a creative costume?
LF: Be unique and go for something others wouldn’t have thought of. A great idea is if a group of you all dress the same or follow a theme. That’s effective.
TQ: If you could wear only one costume for the rest of your life, what would you wear and why? LF: Something with a lot of pockets so it’s useful.