Last-Minute Halloween Costumes That Don’t Suck (2014 Edition)

Because you couldn’t settle on a costume idea, and now it’s too late to spend 32 hours custom-making your own Comic Con-worthy look. Because you had no plans for Halloween, until that Facebook invite came in half an hour ago. Because you don’t want to spend $90 on a chintzy polyester little nothing of an outfit at the nearest party store.

Whatever your reason, it’s inching ever closer to All Hallow’s Eve and you need something to wear. And preferably not last year’s costume. We get it, and we’re here to help.

Here are a few fun ideas you can order on the fly — without looking like you grabbed the first thing in your size at your nearest pop-up Hallo-shop — or make before the big night:

Basic Bitch Costume:

There’s no shame in loving all things pumpkin spice, never tiring of Friends or Sex and the City reruns, and responding to life’s highs in a series of eardrum-piercing squeals. (Okay, maybe that last part needs to go, but the rest? Not nearly as big a deal as people make it out to be. Show you can poke fun at yourself with this tongue-in-cheek costume.) Before you attempt to raid your closet to pull together this look — which, let’s be honest, we all own some of these things — find out just how basic you are with this Buzzfeed quiz.

The North Face jacket, $96; Amazon (or any slouchy, long-sleeved top you can slide over your fingers will do. Bonus points for one that flaunts your Basic B status, like this one from Human)
PSL from Starbucks (duh)
Lululemon yoga pants, $102 (or any black leggings will do; this is a costume after all — here’s a pair for $20)
Infinity scarf, $5; Amazon
Flat riding boots ($35; Target) or tan Uggs
Topics of conversation: (1) Soulcycle or any spinoff spinning class, (2) PUMPKIN SPICE EVERYTHING, (3) how amaze balls brunch is, (4) how you brought out all your fall candles weeks ago, (5) quote Mean Girls like you’re an English major who just discovered Hemingway, (6) pepper every chat with at least five baes, totes, adorbs and moments when you “literally died.”