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Anyone know any good easy costume ideas?

The Potato Factory
16-10-2006, 07:24
Tomorrow's my last day of school, then we have a thing on Wednesday where people dress up. I'm thinking of dressing up as something. Any easy ideas?
Liberal Yetis
16-10-2006, 07:27
White sheet with holes for eyes. Wanna know what you'll look like in that? An idiot! No no, I'm just being mean. You could dress like a bum, I dunno.
Free shepmagans
16-10-2006, 07:30
Are you white? Trash bag+filler of sometype with you inside=white trash.
Zealiria
16-10-2006, 07:30
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/hstrips/0/1/5/9/01596.png

;)
Demented Hamsters
16-10-2006, 07:49
sneeze all over yourself and tell people you're an oyster.
Greater Trostia
16-10-2006, 08:05
You could pull a Prince Harry and dress like a nazi.
New Granada
16-10-2006, 08:07
cross dress
The Potato Factory
16-10-2006, 08:16
You could pull a Prince Harry and dress like a nazi.

I think that would get me expelled.
Wilgrove
16-10-2006, 08:18
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/hstrips/0/1/5/9/01596.png

;)

ROFL! Classic!
The Potato Factory
16-10-2006, 08:19
Anyway, I think I'm gonna come as the Asian Grim Reaper. Black cloak and scythe, complete with Asian Hat and this mask (http://www.emotioneric.com/images/emotionericmask_print.jpg).

In the meantime, here's me in a sad attempt at Mortal Kombat's Scorpion:

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/9470/dsc00069oz5.jpg
The Neptunian Number
16-10-2006, 09:00
Go as a premature ejaculation - just wear your underwear and tell everyone you've come in your pants.
The Potato Factory
16-10-2006, 09:12
Go as a premature ejaculation - just wear your underwear and tell everyone you've come in your pants.

Old.
Vorlich
16-10-2006, 09:23
the old ones are always the best!!!!

Go as a NED. They are a type of person common in central scotland.

they wear shell suits, baseball cap (place far back on the head so the visor points towards the sky) and Buckfast. an alcoholic tonic wine.
Lunatic Goofballs
16-10-2006, 09:31
Strip naked, hose yourself down with a garden hose and douse yourself with powdered sugar and go as a jelly doughnut. :)
The Potato Factory
16-10-2006, 09:35
Strip naked, hose yourself down with a garden hose and douse yourself with powdered sugar and go as a jelly doughnut. :)

OLO
Cannot think of a name
16-10-2006, 09:56
Dress normal, when someone asks why you didn't dress up point to a random person and say, "I came as that guy."
Turquoise Days
16-10-2006, 10:06
Guy on the right is me. Cheap and highly effective. The 'black box' on the left went down well, too.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Anabasis/main.jpg
Checklandia
16-10-2006, 11:45
Death costume is easy, get a black sheet,make it look all rumply and cut lots of holes and bedraggle the ends,then cut a hole for your head, wear black trousers and t shirt, then stikh the costume on and wrap a belt round it, then get a long branch from a tree and use it as a death stick.Its piss easy.
The Potato Factory
16-10-2006, 11:46
Ahh, but Asian death, is not so easy, hmm, glasshopper?
Checklandia
16-10-2006, 11:47
Ahh, but Asian death, is not so easy, hmm, glasshopper?

depends on whether your asian or not!
Intestinal fluids
16-10-2006, 13:09
Go as a box of birth control pills. Specially for a school thing it would be inappropriate and extra funny.
BackwoodsSquatches
16-10-2006, 13:11
Go as a box of birth control pills. Specially for a school thing it would be inappropriate and extra funny.

Better yet.

Dress in all red, and bring a coat-hanger.

Now, youre an abortion!
The Mindset
16-10-2006, 13:18
Totally going as Hitler.
I V Stalin
16-10-2006, 13:43
Don't bother going. If anyone asks where you were, say you went as the invisible man.
Andaluciae
16-10-2006, 14:06
Totally going as Hitler.

*tsk, tsk, tsk*

That won't do at all, I'll make you a nice friendly ghost costume...
Smunkeeville
16-10-2006, 14:09
if you are male dress in your flannel PJ's with a bathrobe and carry a towel, walk around confused looking for tea and making sarcastic comments.

(Arthur Dent... if you must know)
Slaughterhouse five
16-10-2006, 14:17
I think that would get me expelled.

then you can fight it and say that it is your decision to be a Nazi or not and that unless they expell kids for being democrats and republicans then they are discrimanting against you
The Potato Factory
16-10-2006, 14:50
then you can fight it and say that it is your decision to be a Nazi or not and that unless they expell kids for being democrats and republicans then they are discrimanting against you

I don't think that would fly at a Catholic school.
The Mindset
16-10-2006, 15:10
*tsk, tsk, tsk*

That won't do at all, I'll make you a nice friendly ghost costume...

Boring. I'm going as hitler with a pink moustache to a gay bar.
Daistallia 2104
16-10-2006, 17:05
Depends on what you have available around the house.

My main scary costume this year - a scary lumberjack - requires only some simple makeup (fake "scar" tissue, oatmeal, and a couple tubes of fake blood to make an open head wound) and a prop axe. I've goty a flannel shirt, suspenders, a tuque, etc..

Google up simple halloween costumes.

I don't think that would fly at a Catholic school.

Oooohhh. Catholic school. I'd go with BackwoodsSquatches abortion costume, but that's just my evil sense of humor.
Rameria
16-10-2006, 17:18
Last year my costume was something similar to this (http://www.halloweenmart.com/wecs.php?store=halloweenmar&action=display&target=LG8069), it was fun. But I gather you're male, so... yeah. I have no clue.
Cullons
16-10-2006, 17:20
I don't think that would fly at a Catholic school

go as a catholic school girl.
The Potato Factory
17-10-2006, 04:48
Last year my costume was something similar to this (http://www.halloweenmart.com/wecs.php?store=halloweenmar&action=display&target=LG8069), it was fun. But I gather you're male, so... yeah. I have no clue.

Hot. There are a couple of girls doing that this year.
Andaluciae
17-10-2006, 04:56
Easy and cheap, a classic Roman style toga. Get out your white bedsheets, bleach 'em, wrap 'em around you, steal your neighbors headband and tape ivy to it, and proclaim yourself Cicero reborn.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6600/imgp1246qa2.jpg

Of course, the best one ever is to go as Hunter S. Thompson.
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6043/imgp1252bh0.jpg
(The guy on my right)
TJHairball
17-10-2006, 05:08
Someone just told me they knew someone planning on dressing up as me for Halloween.

But as a good suggestion... just throw together whatever looks costumey, and force people to guess what you are. You'll find that you did a good job as something - it usually works for me.
Dobbsworld
17-10-2006, 05:16
1 leg of pantyhose
2 grapefruit
1 black garbage bag
1 pair scissors

Cut hole for head out of bottom of garbage bag; cut garbage bag into long thin strips up to "collar". Place grapefruit inside pantyhose leg. Pull pantyhose down over head, so that grapefruit rest tightly against top of head.

Congratulations! You can now impress your friends with your realistic movie replica costume - you are now a Mutant of 2051 AD!

http://www.losergeek.org/~niklas/bobanddoug.com/movies/mutants.jpg
Turquoise Days
17-10-2006, 09:53
Of course, the best one ever is to go as Hunter S. Thompson.
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6043/imgp1252bh0.jpg
(The guy on my right)
I knew a guy who dressed like that just as his everyday gear.
Desperate Measures
17-10-2006, 09:55
NAKED! Be Naked Person for Halloween.
Callisdrun
17-10-2006, 09:55
Tomorrow's my last day of school, then we have a thing on Wednesday where people dress up. I'm thinking of dressing up as something. Any easy ideas?

A nudist.
Desperate Measures
17-10-2006, 09:56
A nudist.

whoa
Upper Botswavia
17-10-2006, 10:11
Regular clothes, white tape running along the entire outline of your body (top of the head, down by the ears, down the neck, across the shoulders, all the way down and back up the arm to armpit, down the side of your body and leg to foot, around foot up to crotch) which is your chalk outline, then, if you can find it, wrap some of that yellow police caution tape around yourself a couple of times and go as "The scene of the crime".

If you want to, you can also add a bullet hole to the front of your forehead, but it is not necessary.
Infinite Revolution
17-10-2006, 11:23
go as a zombie, all you really need is makeup although you can elaborate on the theme. i went as a zombie of a victim of a mafia-style drowning for halloween last year, complete with concrete boots, chains and duck tape around my wrists and over my mouth.
The Potato Factory
17-10-2006, 13:19
Finished my costume! Black bedsheet for a cloak, bloodied scythe, Asian hat. I'll post pics tomorrow.
Interesting Specimens
17-10-2006, 14:24
Steal somone's pinstripe suit, bleach your fringe and hey presto, EMO!
Big Jim P
17-10-2006, 15:22
I am going as a mental patient. Saves me time and money.
Drunk commies deleted
17-10-2006, 15:24
Tomorrow's my last day of school, then we have a thing on Wednesday where people dress up. I'm thinking of dressing up as something. Any easy ideas?

Old fashioned hockey mask, fake machete of rubber or homemade with plywood and spray painted, slather old clothing and machete with fake blood. Now you're Jason from Friday the 13th.
The Potato Factory
17-10-2006, 15:25
Old fashioned hockey mask, fake machete of rubber or homemade with plywood and spray painted, slather old clothing and machete with fake blood. Now you're Jason from Friday the 13th.

I think someone else is doing Jason. Besides, we don't have hockey in Australia.
Drunk commies deleted
17-10-2006, 15:27
I think someone else is doing Jason. Besides, we don't have hockey in Australia.

Australia must really suck. Ok, find someone else with no costume, if anyone answer to each other's names. For argument's sake let's say you're Bill and he's Ted. If anyone asks say you're actually Ted in a Bill costume and he'll say he's actually Bill in a Ted costume.
Ilie
17-10-2006, 16:10
I was going to be a tree (wear all brown clothing and buy some green hairspray) but I ultimately decided to be a bat (wear all black and get bat wings) since I could get matching bat wings for my dog.

I'm pretty lazy.
Daistallia 2104
17-10-2006, 19:42
go as a zombie, all you really need is makeup although you can elaborate on the theme. i went as a zombie of a victim of a mafia-style drowning for halloween last year, complete with concrete boots, chains and duck tape around my wrists and over my mouth.

Zombie makeup:
White base
yellow around eyes amd mouth
yellow doen the cartoids
overlay yellow with blue then green
black eyelids. blended outwards to thge edges of the eyesockets
speckels of mostly green and some blue around the hairline
blend, blend, blend

fake blood:
remember it's from contact feeding, so blotches rather than drip/flow

For serious zombies, check out: http://zombies.tomwalsham.com/costume.html
German Nightmare
17-10-2006, 20:05
Yeah. Dress up like me on a bad day.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Nightmare.jpg

That should cheer everyone up. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Wha.gif
Isidoor
17-10-2006, 20:43
NAKED! Be Naked Person for Halloween.

if they say anything about it you can always say you're dressed as Adam, now the only thing you'll have to do is to find somebody who is willing to go as Eve (preferably female).
[NS]Paxomenia
17-10-2006, 20:52
TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! Everybody digs a dude in a toga
Callisdrun
17-10-2006, 22:11
Steal somone's pinstripe suit, bleach your fringe and hey presto, EMO!
fringe?
Pan-Arab Barronia
18-10-2006, 00:45
Hair that goes over your forehead. :) Usually.
Callisdrun
18-10-2006, 04:25
Hair that goes over your forehead. :) Usually.

Like this dude?: http://www.renaissancefashions.com/armor/armor_images/devastator-bracers-misfits.jpg
Daistallia 2104
18-10-2006, 05:28
Like this dude?: http://www.renaissancefashions.com/armor/armor_images/devastator-bracers-misfits.jpg

Err.. no.

More like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bangs.jpg/250px-Bangs.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangs_(hair)
Goonswarm
18-10-2006, 05:58
Get a suit, and something to serve as a briefcase. Put a piece of paper on the briefcase that says [your name] Legal Associates in official-looking type (use WordArt or the like).

You are now the embodiment of pure terror - a lawyer *cue horror music*
The Potato Factory
18-10-2006, 06:29
Well, we did it today. Pics of me later. My god, there was some hotness there. A chick in the Kill Bill jumpsuit, some Go Go Girls, and one of the teachers wore a cat suit.

Also, a hot ballerina.
Kreitzmoorland
18-10-2006, 07:21
Well, we did it today. Pics of me later. My god, there was some hotness there. A chick in the Kill Bill jumpsuit, some Go Go Girls, and one of the teachers wore a cat suit.

Also, a hot ballerina.I would have gone as a sperm. Cardboard cutout costumes are always classy.
Daistallia 2104
18-10-2006, 13:31
Get a suit, and something to serve as a briefcase. Put a piece of paper on the briefcase that says [your name] Legal Associates in official-looking type (use WordArt or the like).

You are now the embodiment of pure terror - a lawyer *cue horror music*

That reminds me of the time my parents attended a Halloween party with all my friends - they dressed normally, and told everyone the truth - they came to the party as parents.
Andaluciae
18-10-2006, 13:34
Yeah, I'm definitely Hunter Thompson for halloween this year.
Multiland
18-10-2006, 13:55
I'm sure someone's mentioned it, but a mummy - just wrap yourself in a load of bandages. For extra fun, strip naked first ;)