In the spirit of halloween, what are the most original/funny/controversial costumes you guys have seen? Last year I saw a guy dressed in a blond wig with blood and scars on his face and a steering wheel wrapped around his head. His costume: Princess Di.
I remember seeing the watt line, iirc - a black, a cripple, two jews and a woman.
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I kind of liked four poverty-stricken students (is there any other kind?) at my college. Three of them wore black, with cardboard signs saying “Where’s Waldo?” around their necks. One wore glasses and a red-and-white striped shirt, and jeans. Then they split up. You’d see one of the guys with the signs, and find yourself searching the campus for “Waldo…”
Okay, maybe it wasn’t that great, but a good way for four people to do Halloween for the cost of three pieces of cardboard and one black marker.
Ginger–James Watt was the Secretary of the Interior under President Reagan. In a badly-worded effort to show how diverse his staff was, he said: "We have every kind of mixture you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews, and a cripple.” He was fired shortly thereafter.
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I think the New Orleans Mardi Gras has some of the wildest costumes. Once saw a guy wearing only chaps. Those cowboy things 
The comedian Joel Hodgson (MST3K, etc.) suggested covering yourself with pieces of chewed gum and telling people you’re the floor of a movie theater.
I saw three guys dressed in you basic all white ghost costumes but with the addition of the this logo on the back of the sheets, " Fallopian tube swim team"
This year I’m going as Siamese twins joined at the back.
I reserved it at a costume shop.
A mask with faces in front and back, and extra arms and legs rigged to flap when my real ones move. Not even as hard to sit in as it sounds.
I’m going to wrap some red celophane over a flahlight and go as HAL.
Here are a few:
– A woman who dressed as a MALE “Flasher”. She had a body stocking on under her raincoat, with an appropriate “package”.
– A bunch of guys dressed in cardigans, sensible pants, and comfortable sneakers. They were The Mr. Rogers Squad.
– A couple dressed in costumes that ade a “set”. She wore a cardboard box, painted red and labeled “BRICK”. He wore work clothes and a lebel “BRICKLAYER”.
– My favorite: A Mmmy with hair strategically bristling out between the bandages. Nobody could guess who the guy was, under the bandages. It turns out that it was * really* hard because the guy was bald, and the hair sticking through was all fake.
Well, last year to a party I went as Captain Bathroom! I wore a towel for a cape, had my razor of justice, etc…
My friend once went as red. He painted his face red and wore a fred t-shirt. He also wore non-red jeans, but it he wanted something with minimal effort.
Another couple frieds of mine went as Kriss-Kross, those rapping 12 year olds from the 80’s who wore their clothes backwards. So, my friends wore their clothes backwards. The thing is, one was white and the other was Asian.
I always fared very well in high school costume contests. My freshman year I was a flasher, complete with trenchcoat, painted-on chest hair, and a strategically-placed black censor rectangle. Sophomore year I was the upside-down man, with pants and shirt and shoes and gloves swapped. I would stagger from class to class with a dummy head dangling between my legs, giving the appearance that I was walking everywhere on my hands. Junior year I was Super Toothbrush Man (a giant green toothbrush with a cape). Senior year I was a bird in a tree. My head was a bird with wings that flapped, and the rest of my body was the tree.
I think my favorite of all time is one I saw on another student at my high school. He made a large milk carton with a hole for his face and “MISSING” written above it. It was simple but to-the-point and well executed.
I miss those wonder years when I didn’t need to find my own excuse for dressing up.
Furry white hat,pancake make-up, white body stocking and tights, furry white boots. This was worn by a very tall, slender male. He was a Q-tip.
I once saw a guy at a party dressed as the woman in the Columbia Tristar logo.
I also remember seeing someone dressed as a lava lamp. He had a cone over his upper body that he must have made out of a piece of Lexan sheeting or something. Inside the cone he had a flashlight and 4 or 5 balloons. When someone asked him what he was he’d turn on the flashlight and bat the balloons around.
We had a Halloween party a couple years ago- a friend showed up with a lampshade on her head (with a pullcord as an earring) and a cardboard circle covered with a tablecloth around her waist. On the “table” was a romance novel, votive candle, handcuffs, condom packages, etc.
She was a “one nightstand.”
Cracked everybody up.
Six or seven years ago my brother and a friend of his went as dead flight attendants. Ghoulish makeup, burnt and torn blue blazers and a couple of little carry-on luggage bags with wheels. They made up little badges with “Dead Airlines” on them. They won $200 at a costume contest in a local bar.
That probably wouldn’t be a very good idea for a costume this year, though…
One year I wore dark glasses, carried a tin cup and pulled a vacuum cleaner around on a dog leash. I wore a sign around my neck that said,
“Please help, I am blind and my dog has asthma.”
I am so going to hell.
It will be good to see my friends again.
Me and Mrs Serious briefly joked darkly about going as the twin towers this year.I imagine somebody’s gonna do that. I just don’t wanna be that couple.
My husband and I went together.
He wore a Bright blue t-shirt, with a rubber chicken tied to a rope around his waist.
And I went with a black tshirt with the letter P on it and a make up black eye.
Chicken Cordon Bleu with Black Eyed Pea
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