# Need help with A Clockwork Orange Halloween costume **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-clockwork-orange-halloween-costume/469301 "2008-10-24T03:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-clockwork-orange-halloween-costume/469301/1 "2008-10-24T03:07:50Z")
It’s that time of year again and the villains and monsters are crawling out of the woodwork. Last year’s costume (creepy writing, hand prints and the like in “blood” in invisible ink on a white outfit, viewable because of my patented Blacklite Bowler Hat (batteries not included) ) was a great hit. This year, I was thinking of something a bit simpler and I’ve settled on a Droog costume. So, Clockwork Dopers, what do I need? Here’s what I’ve got, so far: - White button down shirt. ($15 at Freetex) - White suspenders. ($20 at Freetex) - White trousers. (Had an old pair) - Black laced-up marching boots (Borrowing from a friend) - Black bowler hat (Have to buy, considered investment in plausible criminal future.) - False lashes. (Got some good recommendations, going cheap at Standard) - Eye-liner around one eye (Right one, right? Friend supplying.) - Blue eyes ($50 at . . . oh. _whistles_) - Black cane. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-clockwork-orange-halloween-costume/469301/2 "2008-10-24T03:11:25Z")
What about whatever the hell that [thing](http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/uploadImages/1107813148-A-Clockwork-Orange.jpg) over their trousers is? ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-clockwork-orange-halloween-costume/469301/3 "2008-10-24T03:22:50Z")
Ah, right. Codpiece. . . . Any suggestions on where to find a codpiece would be appreciated. Also, big black wrist watch seems to be in order, judging by the picture. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-clockwork-orange-halloween-costume/469301/4 "2008-10-24T04:20:00Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > It’s that time of year again and the villains and monsters are crawling out of the woodwork. Last year’s costume (creepy writing, hand prints and the like in “blood” in invisible ink on a white outfit, viewable because of my patented Blacklite Bowler Hat (batteries not included) ) was a great hit. This year, I was thinking of something a bit simpler and I’ve settled on a Droog costume. > > So, Clockwork Dopers, what do I need? > > Here’s what I’ve got, so far: > > - White button down shirt. ($15 at Freetex) > - White suspenders. ($20 at Freetex) > - White trousers. (Had an old pair) > - Black laced-up marching boots (Borrowing from a friend) > - Black bowler hat (Have to buy, considered investment in plausible criminal future.) > - False lashes. (Got some good recommendations, going cheap at Standard) > - Eye-liner around one eye (Right one, right? Friend supplying.) > - Blue eyes ($50 at . . . oh. _whistles_) > - Black cane. How horrorshow is thy nadsat, O my brother? Also, rubber eyeball cufflink. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-clockwork-orange-halloween-costume/469301/5 "2008-10-24T13:04:14Z")
> [@CaerieD](#): > > What about whatever the hell that [thing](http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/uploadImages/1107813148-A-Clockwork-Orange.jpg) over their trousers is? I decided to go to the source on this: > [@](#): > > The four of us were dressed in the heighth of fashion, which in those days was a pair of black very tight tights with the old jelly mould, as we called it, fitting on the crutch underneath the tights, this being to protect and also a sort of design you could viddy clear enough in a certain light, so that I had one the shape of a spider, Pete had a rooker (a hand, that is), Georgie had a very fancy one of a flower, and poor old Dim had a very hound-and-horny one of a clown’s litso (face, that is), Dim not ever having much of an idea of things and being, beyond all shadow of a doubting Thomas, the dimmest of we four. Now, I know that wasn’t a bit helpful, but it was fun to read, wasn’t it? I imagine an athletic cup would do just fine.