October Is Your Chance to Choose Outfits for the Spooky Season!

October is a time filled with pumpkin patches, haunted houses, scary movie nights. To match the mood, it’s fun to wear festive outfits for the Spooky Season. Lean into dark and mysterious vibes, have fun with whimsical pumpkin & spice or star & moon themes, or just build an outfit around one of your Halloween pieces such as a t-shirt or accessory. Age doesn’t matter.

Just as I wear something festive every day for the holiday season between Thanksgiving and the New Year, I like to wear something to celebrate Halloween every day of October. Besides, we all tend to have our houses decorated all month, so why not decorate ourselves as well? Our fashion taste pertains to our clothes and homes, both.

How to Choose Outfits for the Spooky Season

To celebrate Halloween all through October, consider wearing festive graphic sweaters, anything in black and/or orange, or casual outfits with Halloween-themed pieces like graphic tees or spooky earrings. You can mix and match these pieces for a fun and comfortable look throughout the month.

And it’s a great time for Victorian Goth outfits, which can be romantic as well as dark. Start with anything in a deep or jewel-color velvet.

Festive Graphic Tops:  Sweaters, Sweatshirts or Tees

From playful pumpkin prints to edgy skeleton graphics, these knits are cute, cozy, and perfect for layering on chilly fall days. Layer with a jean jacket or a chambray shirt as jacket, a plaid shirt, a blazer, a kimono or duster. Pair with jeans and booties for the pumpkin patch, or keep it casual with leggings for a night of scary movies.

1. A Halloween graphic tee + a plaid skirt + a black faux leather jacket. Add black boots. You might also like to add some Halloween-themed jewelry.
2. Tuck a Halloween graphic tee into blue jeans and tie a plaid shirt around waist in case you need it  later.
3. Pair a Halloween graphic sweatshirt with blue jeans. You might like to add Halloween-themed earrings, a beanie & booties. 
4. Wear a chambray shirt open as a jacket over a Halloween graphic tee & dark blue jeans.
5. A Halloween graphic tee + blue jeans + a plaid shacket. Add black accessories.
6. Pair a spooky black graphic tee with a long black skirt. Red jewelry would be a good choice to add to this.
7. A spooky black graphic tee + a short jean skirt + a drape-front black cardigan. Add tall, black heeled boots.

Black Every Day

Spooky season doesn’t have to mean costumes—sometimes a dark, chic wardrobe base is all you need. Black denim, faux leather leggings, and oversized neutral sweaters give your look a moody October vibe that feels festive but wearable all season long.

1. Evening:  A loose-knit black cardigan over a sleeveless black dress, or over a black tank/cami with black bottoms.
2. Evening:  A black tulle skirt with a black corset top and black moto jacket. Add black heels + jewelry that has black in it. The top or skirt could also be in a goth color such as burgundy, a medium-to-dark shade of purple, red, etc. 
3. Tuck a black t-shirt into a black or charcoal gray tulle skirt. Add black cuffs & black combat boots.
4. A black graphic tee + a black or charcoal tulle skirt + a black motorcycle jacket. Layer a black choker with a pendant. Add black combat boots. Not to worry about your hair.
5. Add a special shawl (such as an owl motif or peacock design) over a black maxi dress. Try attaching the shawl at neck as a cape. Add black boots.
6. Wear a black flare-sleeve tunic over black snakeskin leggings. Add statement earrings.
   

   

7. Pair a classic black turtleneck sweater with a black faux leather skirt. Add a black jacket and a splash of color if you like.
8. A black lace/fringed vest + blue jeans & a top of your choice. Add orange earrings if you have them + black belt, bag, shoes or boots.
9. Tuck a black velvet top into black jeans. Belt in black. Add a black choker with gold chains & a pendant.
10. Pair a black t-shirt with a black maxi skirt. Belt in black and add black flats.
11. A flare-sleeve black tunic + a long black skirt. Add a long moon or crescent pendant + black boots + a brown fedora.

Orange With or Without Black

1. Wear a white tee and black or blue jeans with a black faux leather jacket. Then, drape an orange shawl around your shoulders or wrap the shawl at waist over the jeans in a triangle. Finish with flat black boots.
2. An orange tee, graphic or not, with black jeans & a black plaid shirt. Add a black purse. You might like to add orange footwear and black jewelry.

Halloween-themed Accessories

Crescent Moon – Handmade Statement Necklace – by BohoWanderlustBoutiq at Etsy

Crescent moon jewelry and velvet kimonos, dusters or capes gives witchy vibes to a denim outfit or any other basics or dresses.

A black fedora adds the same touch to whatever you’re wearing, especially if it’s a flowing black outfit.

Any orange or black jewelry will give a subtle nod to Halloween. Or, try on a choker or dangly skeleton earrings.

Add a skull motif in a scarf, necklace or rings.

Other symbols that you can find in accessories are black cats, pumpkins, witches and even scarecrows!

6 Outfit Ideas

Beetle Beetle All-over Print Long Sleeve Midi Dress by ElleGarrettDesigns at Etsy with moto jacket & boots

1. Beetlejuice style:  Wear black, orange, green and/or purple. Add a pinstriped jacket, lace, ties, ruching and/or spooky accessories.
2. Black leather moto jacket + a long-sleeve brown top + a brown skirt. Add brown boots.
3. A purple tunic over a long-sleeve black lace or mesh top + black leggings. Add a purple scarf + purple dangle earrings + black heeled booties. This would look good with your hair up.
4. Pair a black tunic with black cat leggings. Add a black & blue tiara.
5. Wear a long-sleeve gray tunic-length t-shirt over black skinnies and a kimono with red in it. Add brown ankle boots + a watch + a couple of rings + a mala necklace with a pendant on a black cord & a couple strands of beads.
6. A black top + black pants + a jean jacket or a denim shirt worn open as a jacket. Add a chain necklace + earrings + black combat boots. 

Let’s Connect!

What are your favorite things to wear during the Spooky Season? Please leave a reply below!

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