<p>Every year our neighborhood has a costume party and coming up with good ideas is getting harder and harder. We’ll probably never improve on the year when I was Jack the Ripper and my husband was a victim. </p>
<p>We’re thinking about doing something with a “We are the 99% theme”, maybe something abstract and mathematical rather than just looking like protesters or fat cats. What would you do?</p>
<p>Any other ideas?</p>
<p>The one couple costume I will never forget was worn by my accountant and his wife. They were wearing boxes decorated to look like chests of drawers and lampshades on their heads. They were a couple of one nightstands.</p>
<p>H went as The Persian Golfer with a headscarf, carrying a golf club.
S-2 (at age 8) stayed close by, encased in a puffy black garbage bag, as a drop of oil.</p>
<p>One year at work I attached a sponge to my ID badge holder. I was self-absorbed. Another year I held a CD-ROM and a match - I was a CD burner.</p>
<p>S is in to musical theater and is thinking of going as one of the characters from the musical The Book of Mormon.</p>
<p>A friend of his is tall and skinny and dressed up as Waldo (as in Where’s Waldo?) a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>I’ve seen replicas of Princess Beatrice’s wedding hat pop up as a Halloween costume.</p>
<p>It would be fun to come as Princess Beatrice!</p>
<p>I went to the 2nd Time store one year and got (for cheap) a royal blue taffeta bridesmaid dress, which I doctored (removed one shoulder, lowered neckline, took up the hem and made the skirt a “bubble”) into a short skirted prom type dress. Wore it with bright red tights, red gloves, red turtleneck, spiky red pumps, fake diamond bracelet, and devil mask (this outfit has become a Halloween favorite in this house & is trotted out by one of the girls annually).</p>
<p>My husband wore his Tevas, wrapped up in a white sheet, put on his tool belt, and let his hair out of the ponytail. He has a full beard too.</p>
<p>My H and I once dressed up as a headless woman and her executioner. He wore a black hood and black pants and carried an axe. My costume was more complex but simple enough to do. A victorian blouse is worn (stuffed) over your head with your head peaking out through the front undone button. I used an empty, painted oatmeal container as the neck which stuck out the top of the blouse. The stuffed arms with of the blouse came down with stuffed gloves attached and met under my chin so it looked like my headless body was holding my decapitated head in it’s hands in front of my “chest”. I made a simple long skirt that actually went from my shoulders to my feet but it appeared as if my real shoulders were my waist. Kinda hard to explain but really fun! We won first prize.</p>
<p>This year H is Zampano and I am Gelsomina from Fellini’s “La Strada”. We have been invited to a “classic film” theme party. All we need is a plastic or aluminum chain that H can strap across his chest…everything else can come out of the closet.
[Pictures</a> & Photos from La Strada - IMDb](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2321005824/tt0047528]Pictures”>La strada (1954))
[Pictures</a> & Photos from La Strada - IMDb](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2522332416/tt0047528]Pictures”>La strada (1954))</p>
<p>The most amazing costume I’ve seen is when a Caltech biology professor came as this painting: <a href=“http://tojiemorimoto.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2009/01/thetherapistmagritte.jpg?w=315&h=457[/url]”>http://tojiemorimoto.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2009/01/thetherapistmagritte.jpg?w=315&h=457</a></p>
<p>I will be a witch with a container of sand, wearing Hawaiian flowers etc. I am a SANDWICH!
My DH will pin computer components on a robe as a tech wizard. </p>
<p>In the past I have been a Freudian slip (took a slip and screenprinted Freud pictures and phrases.
Last year I was a pink slip</p>
<p>We go to a “pun” party every Halloween. Best costume yet and the “winner” three years ago was “Raining Cats and Dogs” I was a cat with a crown and ret velvet cape, husband was a dog with crown and red cape.</p>
<p>Some of other favorite puns have been the lady that dressed in black pants and black turtle neck with masking tape from the side of her neck, down her arm, then from her waist, down her leg. She did this on both sides. She was “tan lines”</p>
<p>Last year when with my girlfriends. We just wore jeans with sweatshirts with “cinnamon”, “nutmeg” and “cloves” on them. We were the spice girls.</p>
<p>MizzBee…we cross posted, but last year a lady at our party was a witch with sand on her robe and cards all over her cape that were “club” suited and she was a club sandwich.</p>
<p>collegeshopping, I am going to get a deck of cards today!</p>
<p>Well, if you’re looking for something to complete the costume --just saw a Halloween magazine with “Easy” decorated pumpkins – one as a toile, others in other cute prints.</p>
<p>All you had to do besides buy the pumpkin: buy a book of cute black and white graphics, or some very expensive toile fabric. If the book, cut out about 55 pages, and photocopy them. If the toile fabric, use a color copier to reduce the print and make 25 copies. Then cut out chunks of the pattern, and use ModPodge (a decoupage goop) to adhere each onto the pumpkin. Then ModPodge the whole thing – and voila, one gorgeous and easy decorate pumpkin.</p>
<p>Easy on some planet, but not mine. (And if I was crazy enough to do that, it would darned well be on a fake pumpkin so that it could become a family heirloom, since it is clearly an investment piece.)</p>
<p>I wore all brown clothing and carried a stick one year, hung a sign around my neck that read “a stick in the mud”</p>
<p>Son was a math terrorist one year–he wore a lab coat covered with “weapons of math instruction” on it: rulers, compasses, slide rule.</p>
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