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Conference quark::human_relations-v1

Title:What's all this fuss about 'sax and violins'?
Notice:Archived V1 - Current conference is QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS
Moderator:ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI
Created:Fri May 09 1986
Last Modified:Wed Jun 26 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1327
Total number of notes:28298

1093.0. "Halloween Costumes - Ideas Wanted" by WILLEE::SKOWRONEK () Tue Oct 23 1990 13:20

    Hello,
    
    With the Halloween Season upon us, I was wondering if people had
    any suggestions for costumes.  I am going to a Halloween party this
    weekend and a costume is mandatory.  I love to dress up in costumes,
    but my problem is that I cannot think of a good costume.  I don't
    have much money to spend on a costume, so I would like people to
    enter their suggestion(s) on inexpensive costume ideas.
    
    My favorite type of costume is a "play on words" type of costume,
    but I am open to all ideas.  Last year, I was a "Serial Killer"
    in which I took 2 pcs of posterboard, glued cereal box covers to the 
    front of each, attached 2 pcs of string to the posterboard and wore
    them over me and carried a fake knife.  A friend of mine was a
    "Freudian Slip" in which he took a womans slip and taped pieces
    of paper on the slip upon which he wrote ID, EGO, SUPEREGO, etc.
    
    Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
    
    Debby
    
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1093.1Here are a few hints...DUGGAN::MAHONEYTue Oct 23 1990 15:0410
    I dressed as a geisha at last year's party.  My friend, (a lady) was
    the "wolf" and her husband, was "Little Red Hood"... HE was the cutest
    outfit! had painted freckles, golden woolen braids and hugh false
    eyelashes... and in the basket had cheese, a fifth, cigarettes, etc...
    a man was dressed as a priest (he looked great!) there was a
    bullfighter, a lady dressed as Carmen, (from the opera Carmen) a few
    were dresses as the 20's (charleston type dresses)... I am sure these
    are some ideas for you to choose from!
    Have fun.  Ana
    
1093.2WR1FOR::HOGGE_SKDragon Slaying...No Waiting!Tue Oct 23 1990 15:557
    I still think a cardboard cut out of a chair and pink "anit static" 
    plastic wrapped around you is my best design for a costume... 
    
    Where the chair on your head, wrap the plastic around you, and go as a 
    wad of bubble gum under a chair.
    
    SKip
1093.3How strange do you want to get?REGENT::BROOMHEADDon't panic -- yet.Tue Oct 23 1990 16:509
    A friend of mine got a copy of the "Manchester Guardian" (from
    the big newsstand in Harvard Square, I think), cut giant wings
    out of it, and went as a guardian angel.
    
    ...then there was the time he wore tights, a leotard, and a
    felt picture of a tooth with a bar sinister across it, and went
    as a bastard son of the tooth fairy.  (It's a long story.)
    
    						Ann B.
1093.4AIMHI::RAUHHome of The Cruel SpaTue Oct 23 1990 17:594
    I had a friend dress up with black leotards, and body suit, black sun
    glass's. A stripped T shirt, black and yellow, and we made a pair of
    wings out of coat hangers and celophane wrap. Guess? The killer bee!
    Well how about a friendly fly?
1093.5One way to get trashedREGENT::WOODWARDI've got friends in low places.Tue Oct 23 1990 18:414
    The neatest costume I saw last year was at a party in CO.  The host
    wore a hefty garbage back filled with garbage!  He was.........
    
    white trash.                                                   
1093.6ERIS::CALLASWho knows what it is to be running?Tue Oct 23 1990 22:413
    You could always go as a Pict.
    
    	Jon
1093.7CURIE::ASBURYWed Oct 24 1990 12:152
    as in "grooving with a..."?
    
1093.8As in "wear woad"REGENT::BROOMHEADDon't panic -- yet.Wed Oct 24 1990 14:010
1093.10BUGSLEHIGH::GRANQUISTThu Oct 25 1990 11:069
    Two years ago I ran in a monster dash in Chelmsford as a computer bug.
    
                             B
    Had a tee shirt with COMPUTER on it, and black tights. Sewed on an
                             G
    extra pair of legs, and with painted face, and antenna, looked pretty
    good.
    
    
1093.11Thank you for the great ideas !!!WILLEE::SKOWRONEKFri Oct 26 1990 09:4815
    
    I want to thank you all for your replies --- there are really some
    great ideas here.  My problem was solved a couple of days ago, a
    friend of mine has a nun costume that I am going to borrow & I will
    go as a pregnant nun.  Another friend of mine also has a nun costume,
    so my other friend who is going with me to the party is going to
    wear that and carry a bottle around in a bag -- therefore she will
    be a drunk nun.  
    
    I hope these suggestions have helped other people out there who
    are looking for good ideas.
    
    Thanks again for your help!!
    Debby
    
1093.12WMOIS::E_FINKELSENConsistancy's good...Sometimes!Fri Oct 26 1990 13:132
She could paint her face and go as a "blue nun".

1093.13I've seen onePARITY::ELWELLDirty old men need love, too.Fri Oct 26 1990 16:076
    Haven't read much of these, so it could be a duplicate:
    
    Cut leg and arm holes in a dark-colored trash bag (one of the large
    pnes), (and eye holes), and go as a California Raisin.
    
    ....Bob
1093.14heheheheAQUA::WALKERtwinkle_toesFri Oct 26 1990 17:2416
    I once went in black leotard and black tights, ears, collar and white
    cotton tail as a pregnant playboy bunnny.
    
    Another time I went as a nurse and my friend went as a wounded soldier.
    He fixed my "stethescope" so that the front of my dress would glow red
    when the end of it was touched!
    
    I also went as cinderella in a floor length pink taffeta dress complete
    with (plastic) glass slippers and crown.  The only problem was that the
    glitter that I has sprayed all over me rubbed off on each person I
    danced with that night!
    
    There were several others that I can't recall right now.  I have always
    found this the most fun night of the year.
    
    Martha
1093.15LYRIC::BOBBITTCOUS: Coincidences of Unusual SizeMon Oct 29 1990 09:477
    I had a friend who dressed in this lovely pink prom gown with a bow in
    the back, and a sunday easter hat, and put on a bandolier of bullets
    and carried a camouflage-colored machine gun.  She was 
    "Little Ram-Bo Peep"
    
    -Jody