# Help with a Halloween costume **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558 "2013-09-24T01:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/1 "2013-09-24T01:29:00Z")
My husband and I are going to a Halloween event at a local amusement park (Knoebel’s) and they’re having a costume parade. He’s a librarian, **Library1900** here on the Dope, and is going as Conan the Librarian. I want to have a librarian-themed costume, too. I know that _Marian the Librarian_ is a well-known song, but would anybody know who she is on sight? So I’m asking you Dopers for suggestions. The event is in 2 weeks. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/2 "2013-09-24T01:50:42Z")
Totally unrelated except for the name, but Marion is the name of a hedgehog in a set of two books that a lot of libraries have - about taking care of library books and not plagarizing. [Marion](http://www.marionsbook.com/about-marion-the-hedgehog)is here. Maybe you could put soft spikes on a brown hoodie, draw whiskers and a dark nose-tip on your face, and wear a “Marion” nametag, and have an i-pod with a speaker playing the song on a loop? If you don’t mind crossdressing, and have the body shape and facial structure for it, you could put on a suit and vest and wire-rimmed glasses and go as [Giles](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__9PCmBrOEMA/THFewtBn14I/AAAAAAAAETw/gOkOq2mfjkg/s320/buffygiles.jpg). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/3 "2013-09-24T01:51:45Z")
Make a book costume? Or, if you’re into Discworld, an Orangatan costume? ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/4 "2013-09-24T02:42:54Z")
Conan the Librarian would be accompanied by Read Sonja, obvs. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/5 "2013-09-24T03:10:27Z")
You could try for Maid Marian the Librarian, but everybody would just assume you were a cross-dressing Robin Hood or Peter Pan with a book, and that makes no sense at all. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/6 "2013-09-24T12:33:58Z")
For Mardi Gras I once wore red tights, painted my upper body and face red, and tinted my hair red. It wasn’t really supposed to be anything in particular, but when people asked, I said I was Well Read. I’m jealous. I have family in the Elysburg/Shamokin area and love Knoebels. Be sure and have some pierogies, birch beer, and a pickle on a stick for me! ---
**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:** [September 24, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/7 "2013-09-24T23:06:08Z")
She could make up a mask that looks like a book that’s spread open. When people ask what she is, she can say, “Well, my face is an open book.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/8 "2013-09-25T05:59:53Z")
[Yomiko Readman](http://www.google.com/search?q=yomiko+readman&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hHtCUuzMBLO84AOw8IHwDQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=836&bih=414&dpr=1)? ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/9 "2013-09-25T16:46:23Z")
Great ideas so far, thanks! If I could sew, I’d be a little better off. We’re both Discworld fans, so we thought of the Librarian right away but that would be way too elaborate a costume for my meager capabilities. I don’t have the body to rock a chainmail bikini, but I’m liking the “Read Sonja” idea. How about if I combine two suggestions by wearing a red wig, painting my face red and wearing an all red barbarian kind of outfit. I can be “Well-Read Sonja.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-halloween-costume/669558/10 "2013-09-25T16:54:35Z")
I think Conan the Librarian would carry a sword that when pulled, drops a flag reading **SHHHHHHH!**