# Help me find a plastic cone thing? Halloween costume
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-plastic-cone-thing-halloween-costume/422638
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 14, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-plastic-cone-thing-halloween-costume/422638 "2007-10-14T02:41:41Z")
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-plastic-cone-thing-halloween-costume/422638/1 "2007-10-14T02:41:41Z")
I’d like to be a martini for Halloween (my girlfriend is going to be the bottle of gin). To that end, I want to find a clear plastic cone-shaped something that I can cut part out of to go around my head. My head would be the olive, my tie the stem, and my belt the base of the glass. I was thinking that one of those dog cones would work well, or a lampshade, but I can’t seem to find either in clear.
Can you help me out? Do you have a better idea for how to make this costume?
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-plastic-cone-thing-halloween-costume/422638/2 "2007-10-14T04:57:11Z")
The dog thing is an [elizabethan collar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_collar)? Google it, you’ll find clear ones. There are also instructions on making them, so you could get a piece of clear, stiff, plastic and make your own.