A group of family and I are throwing a Halloween party, and decided that we wanted to do a group costume. Since there are seven of us, we decided to go as the Seven Deadly Sins – interpretation up to each individual.
I’d love some suggestions for what you think a costume for any of the sins. For the record, the sins are Wrath, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Envy, and Pride. I’m Wrath, so any suggestions for that one would be especially welcome! (I’m a girl, but cross-dressing is not a problem.)
A few that we’ve thought of:
Wrath: The Incredible Hulk, Strong Mad
Sloth: An actual sloth
Gluttony: The Cookie Monster
Pride: A beauty pageant queen
For wrath, you could do a bearded God of the OT, ready to smite. (If that strikes you as blasphemous – though I can’t see how it would, given the premise – you could do Zeus with a bunch of lightning bolts.)
So you’re still missing any ideas on Lust, Greed, and Envy.
Lust - Just about any female “sexy” costume at a costume store would work. Though if someone has the courage, dress as a Satyr with exaggerated phallus.
Greed - Other than an older man just dressing in a modern suit and saying he’s Bernie Madoff or Donald Trump? I think getting an old suit with a waistcoat and tails, like any Robber Baron would be pretty cool.
Envy - How about a character literally green with it?
In the original version of Bedazzled, “Pride” was a character who had his own mirror mounted on a stand facing him that he could walk around with. In Pieter Brueghel’s engravings, Pride also has a mirror. Also, a peacock, for obvious reasons.
That film had Raquel Welch in a bikini as Lust, which is pretty obvious. If you don’t want to go the sexy-costume route, you could always be a guy in a dirty raincoat whose pockets are filled with porn magazines and DVDs. And you could hand out sexual favors like obscene-shaped gummies and mints.
From the couples’ Halloween Costume thread, your Envy costume could be green with “NV” on it.
Greed – How about Ebenezer Scrooge? Or Mr. Burns from The Simpsons? Or Donald Trump (whose Hair makes him an inviting target)?
Or be subtle and go as a Republican Congressman/Governor.
Get a huge brown toupee and a suit, and a Chicago accent and you’ve got Greed, as well. With a Glenn Beck mask/town meeting outfit you’ve got Wrath. I’m pretty sure you could fill in the rest, as well.
My concept is that you all have more-or-less standalone costumes. (e.g. Blagoivitch), and wait for somebody to figure out the theme. (“No, I’m not Dopey!”)
Hmm… so many of these have corresponding fragrances… Envyby Gucci? How about dressing up as a perfume bottle and dousing yourself?
Another option for Gluttony: rent one of the massive sumo suits and try to put “regular” clothes over it so it looks more like you’re busting out of your clothes than a sumo dude. Another idea is covering yourself in crumbs and food… attaching bags of Cheetos and Chips and Cookies and what not to your clothes.
IF you go with the trench coat/porn route for lust, thrown in a pair of binoculars for spying in windows…
