# Any simple clever costume ideas? (TAKE 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861 "2012-10-25T20:06:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/1 "2012-10-25T20:06:31Z")
So All Hallow’s Eve is upon us again and as usual I haven’t done any costume shopping yet for this Sat night. I asked you guys [for ideas](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=583484) awhile ago and you came through for me. So, got any more? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/2 "2012-10-25T20:43:20Z")
I have been e-mailing a friend all day about this, helping her come up with ideas. Seeing as you’re a guy, these ideas might be extra funny. Playboy Bunny Retired Playboy Bunny in a housecoat and curlers. (And fuzzy slippers?) Flasher Barefoot and pregnant ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/3 "2012-10-25T21:17:43Z")
Taken from last night’s episode of Modern Family : get one of those baby slings you wear on your front side, put a sack of sugar in it. Bingo : you’re a Sugar Daddy! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/4 "2012-10-25T23:13:50Z")
I saw one online a couple of weeks ago: wear jeans, an orange puffy vest, and carry a skateboard: [Marty McFly](https://www.google.com/search?q=Marty+McFly&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=aseJUMqUNYiwigLXv4CwCQ&biw=1280&bih=629&sei=cceJUIHUIevuiQKQ44GwBA) from Back to the Future. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/5 "2012-10-25T23:49:28Z")
My blond-haired 19 year-old nephew Halloween masquerade-partied as a Mormon missionary. Black slacks, white shirt with black tie, and a bicycle helmet. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/6 "2012-10-26T03:26:19Z")
Get in a square card board box painted like a rubix cube ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/7 "2012-10-26T03:31:46Z")
I’ve got a sonic screwdriver toy. I have clothing. Look, I’m a female incarnation of the Doctor! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/8 "2012-10-26T14:10:50Z")
Cheap black T-shirt, glue some mini liquor bottles to the chest. You’re a “titty bar”! ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/9 "2012-10-26T14:24:30Z")
Tie-dyed shirt, camo pants…you’re War & Peace. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/10 "2012-10-26T14:38:43Z")
I was trying to figure out what to do with an unwanted devil wig and happened upon [a bunch of costume ideas from Goodwill](http://www.i94online.com/GoodwillHalloween.aspx). Some from that page: > [@](#): > > Tickled Pink: Dress in all pink and carry a feather. When people ask you what your are answer, “I’m tickled pink!” > > Black Mail: Dress in all black and attach a postage stamp to your chest. You’re black mail! > > Leaf Blower: Go outside and grab a handful of leaves that have fallen on the ground. Pin the leaves on your shirt and pants. Save one leaf and pin it on to the brim of a baseball cap so it hangs in front of your face. When someone asks you what you are blow the leaf hanging from your cap and say, “A leaf blower”. > > D-Fence: Be the craziest sports fan this football season! Get a white T-shirt and paint a large D on the front. Out of white foam board create a small white fence. When you put the two together it becomes “D-Fence”. > > Judge Judy: Take control of the party this Halloween. Wear a white blouse underneath a black graduation robe. Top it off with a curly wig and gravel. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/11 "2012-10-26T14:44:41Z")
Blue jump suit/body suit. White paint. Spray bottle with water. Paint white clouds on blue jump suit/body suit. Spray water (on mist setting) into the air around fellow partiers. Pronounce loudly that you are… Wait for it… Wait for it… Partly cloudy with a chance of rain! ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/12 "2012-10-26T17:17:49Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Taken from last night’s episode of Modern Family : get one of those baby slings you wear on your front side, put a sack of sugar in it. Bingo : you’re a Sugar Daddy! Love it, it’s simple and clever. Thanks guys. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/13 "2012-10-26T19:29:43Z")
I plan on just getting a bucket with some playground sand in it and putting a bottle of malt liquor in the bucket and going as hurricane sandy. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/14 "2012-10-29T19:23:38Z")
Buy the [_Adventure Time: Jake vs. Me-Mow_](http://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Time-Jake-Vs-Me-Mow/dp/B008OTTU2S/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351538479&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=jake+vs.+mee-mow) DVD set. Get the Finn hat. Put on a light blue shirt, some dark blue shorts, roll your white tube socks down to your ankles and put on your black shoes. You’ll have to do without the backpack for now. Presto, [Finn the Human!](http://www.google.com/search?q=finn+the+human&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hNeOUKmUCq7oiwLYjIDQDg&biw=1192&bih=660&sei=hteOUKmoLNHciQKeuoBw) Yeah, we’re doing _Adventure Time_ this year, but just the kids. Alex is going to be Finn and Teagan is going to be Marceline. No more time for anything else as **Kelliebeans** and I are out of time after making Finn’s backpack, a pair of red boot covers, and Marceline’s axe bass. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/15 "2012-10-29T20:38:47Z")
I did a quick and easy Charlie Brown-as-ghost costume a couple of years ago that went over well. I didn’t want to mess around with a whole sheet, so I just bought the cheapest white pillowcase I could find at WalMart, cut eye holes and a bunch of other holes it, and wore it as a kind of ghost mask. (You need multiple holes, both to look authentically like Charlie Brown and to NOT look like you’re wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood.) I wore a yellow shirt and carried a paper bag with a rock in it to complete the look. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/16 "2012-10-29T21:04:52Z")
Get some hairspray and spray your hair so it sticks straight out to the side. You’re a hurricane survivor. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/17 "2012-10-29T22:37:48Z")
Get some gray felt and cut out sunglasses shapes and glue or pin all over a t-shirt. You’re 50 Shades of Gray. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/18 "2012-10-29T22:48:00Z")
It’s too late for the OP, but in case anyone needs ideas for Wednesday…Get white paper plates, styrofoam cups, white post-its…anything white…staple/tape it to your clothing. You are now White Trash. A friend did this on the WAY to a Halloween party in college; just collected his costume off the ground as he walked to the party, lol. It worked great! ---
**Author:** ![wombattver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@wombattver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombattver)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/19 "2012-10-30T00:50:58Z")
We went to a party this past weekend and we were a hit - dress all in black and tape glow sticks to your clothes in the shape of a stick figure. (we used clear hockey tape) We did a triangle “skirt” for me. Looks awesome in the dark. Connect 3 glow sticks and clip to your head for the circle head of the stick figure. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861/20 "2012-10-30T06:01:45Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > It’s too late for the OP, but in case anyone needs ideas for Wednesday…Get white paper plates, styrofoam cups, white post-its…anything white…staple/tape it to your clothing. > > You are now White Trash. > > A friend did this on the WAY to a Halloween party in college; just collected his costume off the ground as he walked to the party, lol. It worked great! My neighbor came to my Halloween party dressed like this one year. He announced, “I’m your white trash neighbor!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas-take-2/638861.md?page=2)