# Costume help needed...fairly quickly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754 "2016-10-16T19:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/1 "2016-10-16T19:15:18Z")
I work at a Posh hoity toity private club. We are have our members kids Halloween party this coming Friday (10/21). I just found out ALL employees are supposed to be in costume. Yes, there are prizes for 1st,2nd and 3rd but to me that is irrelevant. I just need to comply with the request to wear a costume. Any good/cheap/easy costumes you can think of that would be fun?? Last year I wore hockey gear…my number was ½, my name was Witt. Thanks in advance for the ideas. I have Wednesday available to gather anything needed. tsfr aka daniel ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/2 "2016-10-16T19:43:21Z")
Wear black pants, a black long-sleeve shirt, and a black ski cap if you have one. Take white masking tape and run a strip up and down your sides, including the sides of your arms and legs, and over your head if you have a cap. Get some yellow paper, cut strips about 2-3 inches wide, and tape them end to end to make a sash. Write “Police Line Do Not Cross” on the yellow sash. You are now a crime scene. (Using chalk instead of tape might be more realistic, but it won’t show up as well or last as long.) ---
**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 16, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/3 "2016-10-16T20:39:56Z")
Do that crime scene thing with [one of these](http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/invisible-horror-hood-mask/130470.uts) over your head. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/4 "2016-10-16T20:49:20Z")
Go as a clown. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/5 "2016-10-16T21:31:59Z")
Dinner jacket (tuxedo) and a Phantom of the Opera mask: you are the Phantom of the Opera-goer! ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/6 "2016-10-16T22:13:00Z")
White T-shirt and blue jeans. Comfy sandals if you have’em. Emblazon “Error 404 Costume not Found” on said t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/7 "2016-10-16T22:40:09Z")
Strip-off completely, bend at the waist and back into the room where the party is being held. Go on, guess. You’re a Parker House roll. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/8 "2016-10-16T22:47:35Z")
A white sheet with lots of holes cut in it - Charlie Brown from _It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown._ ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/9 "2016-10-16T23:57:33Z")
#4: > **[25 Last-Minute DIY Halloween Costumes](https://mashable.com/archive/last-minute-halloween-costumes)** > > 25 Last-Minute DIY Halloween Costumes ---
**Author:** ![justanothermike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@justanothermike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justanothermike)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/10 "2016-10-17T00:48:50Z")
There were some great ideas in a thread that I started. I didn’t mean it to be a costume suggestion thread but there were a lot of suggestions in it: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=806369](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=806369) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/costume-help-needed-fairly-quickly/768754/11 "2016-10-17T01:17:28Z")
Do you have jeans and a plaid or red shirt? Get a cowboy hat at a dollar store and you’re a cowboy.