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Costume Drama: Halloween Dressing Straight from the Fall 2010 Runways

Still not sure who, or what, you are going to dress up as on Sunday? Why settle for the predictable ghoul getups when you can don an ensemble straight off the runways!
By Lynn Yaeger
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Image may contain Clothing Apparel Human Person Fashion Evening Dress Gown Robe Sleeve Footwear Shoe and Female
Has Boardwalk Empire replaced Mad Men in your affections? Ralph Lauren can provide a beaded-chiffon ersatz-1920s dress that calls to mind not just Paz de la Huerta but her spiritual antecedents: Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan! Dorothy Provine! Louise Brooks!Photo: Marcio Madeira/FirstView.com (runway); Abbot Genser/Courtesy of HBO (Boardwalk Empire)

Still not sure who, or what, you are going to dress up as on Sunday? Why settle for the predictable ghoul getups when you can don an ensemble straight off the runways! As it turns out, some of the strongest looks of the season are surprisingly Halloween-friendly. Consider the following costume options, created with just the faintest tweaking from the fall 2010 collectsions.

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