Need Halloween costume ideas. Stat!

[Binarydrone]

Fellow Dopers. Now is the time to show yourselves to be the creative and imaginative folks that I know you to be.

I need to help my SO come up with a costume. What I am looking for are some ideas for something that is inexpensive, not a lot of hassle and quick. Naturally, it should also not seem like any of those things and should be both a desert topping and a floor wax! :p

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

[Zebra]

well there still seems to be time to go to a shop and buy a costume.

If you want something made of household items have your SO go as you.

Other than that I think we might need a little more info.
Like:
Isyour SO a man or a woman or some sort of animal?

Is there anything your SO would never dress up as like a man or a woman or an animal?

Do you have basic costuem items in your house? (wigs, pom-pons, swords, patent leather hip boots, you know, the usual stuff)

Are you good with a glue gun?

To what sort of event will the SO be wearing the costume?

[Binarydrone]

Right, details. Significant other is Female, mid thirties and the cutest think that you can ever imagine (although I admit to a bias). I guess that I could go buy a costume, but am pretty broke right now.

While I am excellent with a glue gun and in general a virile masculine and handy fellow, the fact is that we recently moved here from 3000 miles away towing a 6-foot Uhaul trailer behind our Hyundai and so still do not have much beyond the bare essentials.

[Max Torque]

Here's the idea I came up with in chat last night (though the persons I gave the idea to actually made it better):

Hot-glue some mini liquor bottles to a revealing T-shirt and go as a "titty bar".

[belladonna]

Green Sweat Suit

Black-Blue Makeup around one eye

Big Black P glued to your shirtfront


ta da--she's a black-eyed P!

[vivalostwages]

I have all the trimmings for this one but haven't done it yet:

White cotton balls
white face paint
white gloves, turtleneck, pants, socks, shoes
shower cap and bobby pins
glue the cotton to the cap

Human Q-Tip!

[rubes]

wrap SO completely in tinfoil: ta dah! Baked Potato

[Zyada]

Will take constant explanation, but I like the idea.

Wear sweats, messy tee or sweat shirt, wear hair up and full makeup (maybe with tiara?).

And only one shoe.

She's a modern Cinderella.

[jackelope]

I'm gong super-lame but super-cheap (and authentic) this year: my pajamas and bathrobe. Then I went and got some of that Force Ten, Patti-LaBelle hair gel and I'm going to make my hair stick stright out in crazy directions as if I just got out of bed.

It's not much of a costume, I know, but it'll be totally comfortable. Plus I am really looking forward to getting drunk in my pajamas in public. :D

[Lisa Ann]

I went one year as Devil with a Blue Dress On -

Blue dress
Horns
Tail
Pitchfork

[Brynda]

I found some great ideas at this site. Check out their cheap and easy section. Rick and I were going to go in black and blue sweats as a bruise, but I have come down with something, so we will have to save it for next year. Rick might go to work in sweats with an e on his chest--e-mail. Your SO could dress as a guy and use the same idea.

Good luck!

http://www.costumeideazone.com/default.asp

[Astroboy14]

Need:
-cardboard
-red and yellow paint
-a few pieces of foam rubber (4 or 5 inches, by a foot or so long)

A few minutes later, you have a bag of McDonald's french fries! (add ketchup-pack earrings for effect)

[agentfroot]

Get a black zip-up hooded sweatshirt, a white t-shirt, black pants, some face paint, and go as a panda. Don't forget the ears!

[masonite]

Does it have to be original? Surgeon's quite easy. Pick up the scrubs, cap and booties from a medical-supply store, swing by the costume shop for a bottle of red goop to smear all over the front (or just use tomato paste), and you're all set.

[peri]

Tights, turtleneck, 33 gal. garbage bag, newspapers to stuff same. She will be...GARBAGE.

You could do this as a team, labeling the bags Hefty and Wimpy.


Oh, damn, why do I remember this? Bad, bad flashbacks.

[Tony Montana]

pj's,cigar,bathrobe..Hugh Hefner! tacky 70's clothing,sock in pants,cheap cologne..Dirk Diggler!

[even sven]

Go as a school girl and a tenticle monster.