costume ideas

[Dorothy Wood]

I'm thinking I want to be Rachel from Bladerunner, because I can easily make my hair look like either of the styles she has in the movie. HOWEVER, that businessy suit thing she wears isn't very sexy and seems like it may be difficult to replicate (lol).

OR, my hair is finally long enough to be bettie page now...but I'd have to get a corset or something and those seem expensive.

so, give me some ideas. like obscure characters from things. I don't know. preferably with dark hair so I don't have to get a wig.

and you know, this can be for everyone! it's what I'd like to call an "idea bank". *clink*

[CJM]

how about a robot? cardboard boxes, and that pipe-type-stuff all sprayed silver.

[Bob]

find 3 friends and dress up as the B-52s

http://www.jive.net.au/artist%20shots/b52s.gif

[Dorothy Wood]

I don't have 3 friends.

[Bob]

well, come to boston and bring 2 friends, i want to go as the B-52s for halloween

[Dorothy Wood]

you could build 3 papermache heads!

[cosmo105]

i'm stealing crystal's idea and going as a stewardess SORRY FLIGHT ATTENDANT with snakes attached to me like they're attacking me, and blood everywhere. :cool:

you could be a young katharine hepburn. i think you have similar bone structure. and you could dress and do your hair so rad. talk like a scary old lady, though. she had a weirdass voice.

[Dorothy Wood]

i'm stealing crystal's idea and going as a stewardess SORRY FLIGHT ATTENDANT with snakes attached to me like they're attacking me, and blood everywhere. :cool:

you could be a young katharine hepburn. i think you have similar bone structure. and you could dress and do your hair so rad. talk like a scary old lady, though. she had a weirdass voice.


oh! thanks, but that's not scary. unless I was a dead katharine hepburn...but that seems in poor taste. :/

I'm already getting questions about my costume because two years ago I was a dead secretary and everyone loved it and they want more! last year I was an injured cyborg bounty hunter (which nobody really got) and a dead teacher. people kind of liked the teacher thing, but it didn't go over as well as the secretary.

what other kinds of professions are iconic (besides a nurse) that I can be a dead one of?

[cosmo105]

KATHARINE HEPBURN IS PLENTY SCARY

[Bob]

last year I was an injured cyborg bounty hunter (which nobody really got)

i remember you posting pictures of that and me not getting it, actually

what other kinds of professions are iconic (besides a nurse) that I can be a dead one of?

dead cop, but maybe that's too risky

[ggirlballa]

what should, i be what should i be.....

[Dorothy Wood]

dead accountant?

hey, how many people are going to be steve irwin with a fake stingray impalement? 5? 17? I'm betting about 322 worldwide.

[cosmo105]

dead telemarketer

[zorra_chiflada]

dead avon lady

[cosmo105]

oooh! nice! dead mary kay lady, too! i like!

[Dorothy Wood]

ah! dead 50's housewife maybe...I have just the dress for it. I just need an apron and some utensils.

[cosmo105]

AND A SHOWER CURTAIN SKIRT SO YOU CAN MAKE A SOCIOLOGICAL STATEMENT

[Dorothy Wood]

wait wait, what would an avon/marykay lady look like?

[cosmo105]

THIS (http://www.livindoll.org.uk/friendpix/Liz_7.jpg)

[zorra_chiflada]

wait wait, what would an avon/marykay lady look like?

a pink ladysuit

[Dorothy Wood]

A MURDEROUS 50'S HOUSEWIFE

I BLUDGEONED MY HUSBAND TO DEATH WITH A LEG OF LAMB!

AND THEN THE COPS ATE IT.

[zorra_chiflada]

A MURDEROUS 50'S HOUSEWIFE

I BLUDGEONED MY HUSBAND TO DEATH WITH A LEG OF LAMB!

AND THEN THE COPS ATE IT.

oh that ole chestnut

[Dorothy Wood]

how about a dead mrs. santa claus?

[cosmo105]

I SAW A PHOTO ALONG THOSE EXACT LINES AT THE COUNTY FAIR, IT WAS VERY NICELY SHOT BUT I'D SEEN SIMILAR PHOTOS LIKE FOUR TIMES

[jackrock]

Dorothy, goes as cosmo. Cosmo, go as Dorothy.

Cone Head!!

edit: Go as Zuul from Ghostbusters!

[Dorothy Wood]

MICHAEL LANDON

DEAD. :(

[icy manipulator]

there's nothing scarier than a dalek

[Dorothy Wood]

there's nothing scarier than a dalek

way to kill my thread, dr. who. :cool:

[na§tee]

ha, sarky.

you know i have been harbouring a secret desire to dress up as one particular character for years, and it's all down to you. YES! you.

at least, i'm 99% sure it was you.
ages ago - maybe even eight years ago - you were posting about how you saw someone at hallowe'en dressed as jackie kennedy post jfk assassination, with bits of bloody macaroni on her suit etc etc.

man. i so want to do that (we're not precious about jfk over here so i'm not too fussed about insulting anyone. plus none of our friends would be likely to be insulted by anything) but i am finding it hard to find proper jackie stylee suits and pill-box hats. it's very difficult.

you know, i have never dressed up for hallowe'en? not even when i was a lil girl. we were never allowed. living in a supposedly dangerous foreign country and all that. i'm 23 and i am determined that this year will be the first!

we're going to have a "days which shook the world" party where you can come as a character which means something to you (so basically you can come as anyone as long as you can explain how they shook your world). my flatmate was g.. hmm i am so not telling everyone what he was going to come as you will be 100% disgusted but anyway, yeah. jackie's the way forward. if i can find the gear..

[Nivvie]

My daughter's going to be a mummy. I got a whole roll of muslin from a dodgy source, and after rejecting the idea of just wrapping her up due to toilet and apple bobbing complications, I now have to sew some kind of badage-jumpsuit. Bollocks.

[na§tee]

haha, nivvie. i feel for you. damn those toiletary complications!

yo sarks, i've found a costume for you. check it! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sexy-Rainbow-Brite-Starburst-Costume-S-Leg-Avenue_W0QQitemZ230036445346QQihZ013QQcategoryZ862 09QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[na§tee]

would jackie wear this hat (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Whte-pill-box-hat-with-netting-and-flower-detail_W0QQitemZ150042680540QQihZ005QQcategoryZ912 49QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)? maybe i should go for black. funeral-y. hurm.

[Freebasser]

I'm going as Dot Cotton.

[Dorothy Wood]

would jackie wear this hat (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Whte-pill-box-hat-with-netting-and-flower-detail_W0QQitemZ150042680540QQihZ005QQcategoryZ912 49QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)? maybe i should go for black. funeral-y. hurm.

that hat would work. actually, the macaroni was from the movie House of Yes, (I think), but my other roommate dressed as Jackie a couple of years ago.

you just need to buy a vintage chanel suit...which are...cheap and easy to find. not. :p

[HEIRESS]

I keep meaning to tell you that I work with your Canadian twin sarky

its fucking ridiculous how much you two look alike

anyways, IM GOING AS ARCTIC GI JOE THIS HALLOWEEN KBYE

[Dr Deaf]

everything i've come up with so far beth writes off as cliché.

zombie, ninja, etc.

i was thinking v for vendetta or dr victor doom, but both restrict mass consumption of beer and nicotinez.

[HEIRESS]

http://www.jrxtoys.de/images/gfg/jesper_gfg_JRX/toys/gi-joe/loose/1983/SNOW_JOB_2.jpg

[Dr Deaf]

do you pretty much have all the shit you need already?

if i'm shelling out cash for a costume i wanna be able to wear the key elements after the celebration.

kung fu guy: kung fu suit (y)
80s break dancer: matching silk-esque tracksuit brand new superstars or cortez & boom box (y)
ninja: ninja suit for ninja-ing on my days off (y)

i think i'm a do the old skool breaker thing. it'll give me and excuse to throw down my fridge box and windmill in the motherfucker.

:cool:

[Caribou]

I'm going as a hottopic punk/goth.
I just need to find a Linkin Park T-shirt.

[Freebasser]

I've changed my mind - I'm going as Frank Butcher.

Just gots to find me a bow-tie and I'm set (y)

[Caribou]

Suit you sir. You just need to grow a bit of hair on the sides.

edit:
I think I'm gonna go as Bill Oddie in his Goodie days. I already have the hairdo, now all I need is a beard, flared trousers, a union jack waistcoat and learn to dance the funky gibbon. ooh ooh ooh!

[TAL]

Bob should go as Bob from Twin Peaks. You could learn all his lines and say "Bob" when someone asks who you are.

You need your long hair back though.

[chrisd]

I wanna go as that big owl from lost in translation

[Pootytang]

I'm gonna tie a string around each wrist and let about a foot of it dangle and do the same thing around my ankles and go as a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon float.