Yes, it’s last minute. But, I need some costume ideas, preferably ones that work for a couple. I originally wanted to be a creepy porcelain doll. I have the face for it (see here), it would be cheap and easy.
For a couples’ costume, I was thinking maybe a creepy marionette, with my bf as puppeteer. My friend thinks that’s a little weird though.
My sister just suggested the Jew and Arab from the Clash’s Rock the Casbah video, which would be funny because my boyfriend is Jewish. And I happen to love the song. I could carry a boombox playing Rock the Casbah so the explanations would be kept to a minimum (except for the under 25 crowd, but oh well).
Guy: Medical scrubs. Little Dr. Headband thingee and penlight optional but at least bring a few band-aids.
Girl: Shirt & skirt (non-descript) with white lab coat. Glasses, plastic stethoscope and clipboard a plus.
Uma Thurman and John Travolta from Pulp Fiction: suit and slicked back hair on his part, would merely require black wig for you unless you don’t own a white shirt and black pants
Jem and Rio: you could get an outfit at Forever 21 for about $20 and go crazy with the Wet and Wild makeup for a night.
I love the marionette idea. Bonus points if you’re obviously dressed like a puppet (complete with lines drawn on your face as if you had an open-and-shut jaw, all skin not on your face covered, etc) while he’s dressed normally-- but you’re the one holding his strings.
I’m always a big fan of the sort of “anti-costume”, making fun of whatever is popular or being something no one wants to see in real life. Often this requires a sign to explain it, but a simple sign that makes people laugh. I’ve won several costume contests with these ideas. I should also add that I’m a guy if that matters. Past ideas have included:
Cheap black bedsheet from thrift store cut and pinned to look like a short burqa with fishnet stockings and fake Playboy magazine with yourself pictured on the cover “Playboy’s sexiest women of the Taliban”
Dirty clothes, carrying baby doll, gross hair, and/or carrying a fake bomb with sign on back “Guy you least want to be sitting next to on the airplane”
This year, I’m going as “Anti-Green Man” - An evil supervillan who wants to promote global warming. I’ll be in black with a vest made of plastic six pack holders with stuffed animals caught in them, cheap cape, wrestler mask, and two pins I made myself. One has Al Gore and a Toyota Prius with the legend “You can’t spell ‘Pretentious’ without ‘Prius’”. The other a hippie getting kicked in the face with a boot and the legend “Hey jerk, here’s my Carbon Footprint”. On my back will be the green recycling symbol with a red circle and line through it and the words ‘Anti-Green Man’
