A lot of people talk about the red queen costume about how it was in the Alice in Wonderland movie, but actually it was the queen of hearts that was in Alice in Wonderland. I’m not trying to be that “the book was better” type of guy, but the red queen was in “through the looking glass”. However the costumes look almost exactly the same so nobody is really going to notice around Halloween. So if you are looking for a red queen costume also do a search for the queen of hearts because it may pull up more results.
On the other hand the white queen costume is very straight forward. She is the same character in Alice in W. as she is in the Looking Glass so you can’t really go wrong there. Both are great outfits but I think it comes down to your personality. If you have more of a dark side then maybe the red queen costume is right for you, but if you’re a good girl but still wants to have fun then the white queen is just right for you. I think that more girls can pull of the red than the white simply because the white queen was depicted as being perfect, and we don’t want to try to live up to that!
Last year I took the simple route and just went and bought a wig and some cool contacts that had fire on them. I was pretty amazed at how they look and they don’t really constrict your vision at all. There were sometimes that I would look from a certain angle and could see that something was blocking, but the contacts for the most part were comfortable and I received a lot of compliments on them. I think getting a pair of cool contacts is something almost everyone should do for their costume. You can get really inexpensive costume contacts and really make any halloween costume better.
Whatever I decide this year it will be fun.