Our Favorite Pop Culture and Queer Halloween 2024 Costume Ideas

Sabrina Carpenter

The pop princess has made her mark with playful lyrics, heart cutouts, and vintage lingerie-inspired outfits. This is a great option because as long as you can convey the Sabrina vibe, you don't necessarily need to wear any specific items she's worn before, and there are countless looks to choose from. Once you've got the blonde wig with bangs and voluminous curls, a monochromatic lingerie look (matching garters and other accessories easily made with lace from the craft store) will seal the deal. If you're wearing an airy nightie or a red corset, you don't even need her signature platform boots to make the fit recognizable. But you do need the album cover and tour outfit signature red lipstick kiss on your shoulder or inner thigh to make this look like a winner. If you've got a corset-style top (even a tight vest would work) that you're willing to Sabrina-ify, this is a great tutorial on the surprisingly easy process to create a heart-shaped cut-out. Another super-Sabrina costume that would stop traffic if you're ready to go all out is the sparkling bath towel reveal she's been doing at her Short n' Sweet tour.

Brat Summer

You already have multiple variations of this costume. If you want something straight-forward, it's gonna be a tight neon green crop top with the word "brat" across the front in the simple brat-specific font. You can also crowd-source from everything neon that you and your friends bought to wear over the Brat summer we just experienced. Alternatively, and perhaps most appealing, is the chance to wear the brat-coded outfit that got you the most attention. An opportunity to rewear your most successful thirst trap fit? That's exactly what Halloween is for!

Chappell Roan

If you've got the time and energy to DIY something as spectacular as the "Hot To Go" star would wear on stage, you'd be doing your community an incredible service. Oh, what a gift it would be to see a version of her Statue of Liberty bong reveal in person. You could recreate Chappell Roan's Midwest Princess album cover with a strapless turquoise dress, DIY satin sash, and a red wig piled on top of your hair, with curls tumbling around the tiara. Scroll through the It Girl's Instagram and you'll be inspired by the many, many options to rock a dazzling Chappell Roan costume. You really can't go wrong with sequins and her signature big red hair. The makeup is where the magic is! Go all out with that and you'll hit the mark.

The Oompa Loompa at the Glasgow Willy Wonka experience

The best part of this costume is that you really can't mess it up. Your wig is tilted to the left? That's intentional. Makeup smudged? That's accurate to the footage from the event. No amount of partying late into the night (or sneaking away to hook up before meeting the girls for group photos) is going to ruin the perfection that is this look. You'll need a green wig (badly cut into a bob with bangs), white gloves, a dark brown top (easily DIY-ed with scissors to be off-the-shoulder, and striped ribbon from the craft store sewed along the edges), and – most importantly – you need to convey profound disappointment with your face and posture. The sad oompa loompa herself has given you (in this interview about a musical production about the saga!!) directions on how to hit the iconic pose.

Paris 2024 Olympians

Whether you rock a gold and green t-shirt and cap to embody Australia's Raygun, pull out the Superman glasses you've had for years to become Pommel Horse Guy, or a leotard like the one-of-a-kind sparkling beauties that Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, and Brazil's Rebeca Andrade wore in their gold-winning performances, this costume is a perfect combo to show off your bedazzling skills and your banging body. DIY Olympic medals are a must (unless you're gonna be the Australian "breakdancer" Raygun, for which you will instead need to strike a ridiculous mid-dance pose for photos, with a straight face to show your commitment to the craft), but some cardboard, gold spray paint, and ribbon will do, and you'll be able to spend the night posing like the Olympians did, with their medals between their teeth.