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I’ve found all of the best work appropriate Halloween costumes for women and I’m going to show them to you in this post!
A lot of women want Halloween costumes for work that are more modest and conservative. They can be a bit tricky to find, but there are plenty out there.
These costumes are fun, cute, fashionable, DIY, and recognizable.
1. Mary Poppins
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Mary Poppins is a nanny who is nurturing, adventurous, and strict.
This costume is based on her nanny outfit she wears in the movie.
2. Sailor
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This modest costume is a sailor. It’s such a unique and cool costume idea!
She is wearing a midi navy and white striped dress, a red neck tie, a white sailor hat, and white sandals.
3. Kate Middleton
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Princess Kate Middleton is a very classy and conservative Halloween costume for women to wear.
This costume is a royal blue short sleeve dress, a small blue hat, and pointy black pumps.
4. Belle
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For a modest Belle costume, you need a blue midi dress, a white apron, a bow in your hair, and black heels.
5. Bat
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For this bat costume, you need a black knee length or midi dress, some black fabric, bat ears, and black shoes.
You can get a black dress and use it for your costume, then continue to wear it after Halloween.
6. Strawberry
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- Similar strawberry costume here
- Similar dress here
- Similar shoes here
- Green foam sheets here
- White felt sheets here
- Headband here
This strawberry outfit is so cute and classy. It’s made with a red dress, that has white “seeds” added to it, a green stem for your hair, and black flats.
The white seeds are cutout from white felt and are glued or sewn onto the dress.
She made the green stem by hot gluing green foam sheets to a headband. This is a great DIY costume!
7. Pineapple
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For the DIY pineapple costume, you’ll wear a yellow shirt that you put upside down V’s on.
You can make them out of tape or draw them on with a marker.
You’ll also need to make the green crown for the pineapple topper. This is green fun foam glued to a headband.
8. Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives Costume Idea
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This funny costume idea is inspired by the TV show Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
She’s wearing a long blue coat, a black top, black pants, and black boots. She’s also holding Fruity Pebbles and a Swig drink.
9. Wednesday Addams
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- Similar Wednesday Addams costume here
- Similar dress here
- Long sleeve dress option here
- Wednesday Addams wig here
- Similar tights here
- Similar booties here
- White collar here
Wednesday Addams is the queen of Halloween, so it’s one of the best costumes out there.
The key to pulling off Wednesday, is wearing lots and lots of black.
You need a black dress, black tights, and black shoes. You’ll also need a white collar and perfect pigtail braids.
10. Mary Poppins
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- Similar Mary Poppins costume here
- Similar skirt here
- Similar white shirt here
- Similar bow tie here
- Similar umbrella here
- Similar boots here
- Similar gloves here
- Similar purse here
If you’re looking for a classy costume, then Mary Poppins is one you should definitely consider.
You’ll need a white button down shirt, a long black skirt, a red bow tie, white gloves, black tights, black boots, and umbrella, and a big purse.
11. Alice In Wonderland
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- Similar Alice In Wonderland Costume here
- Similar dress here
- Similar apron here
- Similar tights here
- Similar bow here
- Similar shoes here
The Alice in Wonderland costume consists of a light blue short sleeve dress, a white apron, white tights, black shoes, and a bow for your hair. Keiko Lynn even dressed up her little dog as the rabbit!
12. Pirate
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Sarah Forshaw put together an awesome modest pirate costume for Halloween! We love how modest she kept it.
This costume has black pants, a white ¾ length shirt, a black vest, a red bandana, lace up boots, and some jewelry.
13. Where’s Waldo
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Where’s Waldo is a fun and easy costume to make! The most essential piece is the red and white top.
You could do a sweater or a shirt, depending on how cold it is on Halloween. You also need jeans, a red and white beanie, and glasses.
14. Peanut The Elephant Beanie Baby
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Dressing up as a beanie baby isn’t as easy as a lot of the other costumes on this list. You have to find a store that has an elephant onesie, then make the TY tag yourself.
Print it out as big as you can, then use a ribbon to attach it to the onesie. You could also do this with other TY beanie babies!
15. Ice Cream Cone
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- Similar ice cream costume here
- Similar top here
- Similar skirt here
- Similar heels here
- Rainbow cardstock here
- Red balloons here
Kelly from Studio DIY made this ice cream cone costume that is just adorable.
She is wearing a white top with scalloped edges, a tan knee-length pencil skirt, tan peep toe heels, and a cherry on her head.
She added rainbow sprinkles made from cardstock to her shirt.
She also made a cherry with a red balloon and some red paper. You can attach it to a headband, or you can pin it to your hair.
16. Cactus
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Cacti are so cute and trendy right now. Lauren from LaurDIY is wearing a dark green sweater.
She tied white yarn into it to be the needles. She also has a flower headband on, like the cactus is blooming flowers.
17. Scarecrow
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- Similar overalls here
- Similar top here
- Similar hat here
- Fake leaves here
- Plaid patches here
- Make-up kit here
Brit + Co dressed up as this super cute scarecrow.
She did her makeup like a scarecrow, then she’s wearing a straw hat, a red plaid flannel button down shirt, tan shoes, and overalls.
She put leaves on her hat and leaves and patches on her overalls.
18. French Mime
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- Similar top here
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Dress Cori Lynn dressed up as a French mime. This costume is so cool!
She is wearing a black and white striped long sleeve shirt, a white neck scarf, black pants, black suspenders, red flats, white gloves, and a black French hat.
19. Sriracha
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Sarah Hearts wore this fun Sriracha sauce costume.
She is wearing a red shirt with the logo, then she made a lid out of green construction paper that she’s wearing on her head.
20. Minnie Mouse
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- Similar Minnie Mouse costume here
- Similar dress here
- Similar ears here
- Similar flats here
- Similar tights here
- Similar gloves here
Allison from Dream A Little Bigger is adorable dressed up as Minnie Mouse.
To be Minnie Mouse, she wore a red dress with white polka dots, Minnie Mouse ears that have a big red bow on them, a black long sleeve shirt, white gloves, black tights, and yellow flats.
21. Flight Attendant
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- Similar flight attendant costume here
- Similar skirt here
- Similar shirt here
- Similar neck scarf here
- Similar shoes here
- Similar suitcase here
This modest flight attendant costume is so unique.
It’s a red pencil skirt, a white button-down shirt, black heels, a neck scarf, and a carry-on size suitcase.
22. Burger
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Studio DIY made this unique hamburger costume.
She’s wearing a tan dress for the hamburger bun and tan shoes. She used a hot glue gun to put different colors of felt on the dress to look like sesame seeds, tomato, lettuce, cheese, and the patty.
23. Deer
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- Similar deer costume here
- Similar antlers headband here
- Similar sweater here
- Similar skirt here
- Similar heels here
- Makeup kit here
This modest deer costume from The Sugared Lemon is just so cute!
She’s wearing deer ears and antlers, a tan cable-knit turtleneck sweater, a cream tulle skirt, and tan heels. She also did really cute deer makeup. This is my favorite of these modest animal costumes.
24. Fox
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Rach Martino dressed up as a fox. This is a really fun modest animal costume!
She’s wearing a fox ears headband, a rust orange cable knit sweater, and an orange skirt. She also did fox makeup on her face. I love the little nose she put on with the makeup!
25. Superwoman
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- Supergirl costume here
- Superman shirt here
- White button down shirt here
- Black suspenders here
- Shoes here
- Glasses here
- Similar pants here
Sunny Fit Life dressed up as the Clark Kent version of Superwoman.
She’s wearing a Superman shirt, a white button down shirt, black suspenders, black pants, glasses, and red tennis shoes.
You really can’t go wrong with dressing up as Superwoman!
26. Elastigirl
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Elastigirl aka Mrs. Incredible is from the Disney movie The Incredibles.
She’s wearing a black and red outfit with The Incredibles logo on it, a black eye mask, and black boots. Viva Veltoro made this DIY Incredibles costume.
27. Dorothy
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This Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz costume is really cute and recognizable.
She is wearing a blue and white gingham dress, red heels, and she has a picnic basket.
28. Mouse Costume
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This mouse costume is really cute and fun.
She is wearing a light gray dress, a mouse ears headband, and white sneakers. She also used face paint to draw on a mouse nose and whiskers.
29. Fox Costume For Women
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This fox costume is really modest, cute, and easy to put together.
She is wearing an orange dress, a fox ears headband, and a white furry vest.
30. Cruella DeVil Costume
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This Cruella Devil costume is simple and so chic.
She is wearing a white fur coat with a black dress, and red gloves. You definitely need your hair to be half black and half white if you’re going to be Cruella.
31. Modest Ariel Costume
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- Similar sweater here
- Similar skirt here
- Similar heels here
- Similar headband here
- Similar necklace here
- Similar plush here
- Ariel wig here
This modest Ariel costume is really chic and so fun. It’s perfect for teachers or wearing to the office.
She has on a purple sweater, a green pleated midi skirt, a red headband, a shell necklace, and red heels. She’s also holding a red crab plush to represent Sebastian.
You could add a red Ariel wig if you want to.
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