# Okay costume help need answer fast

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 30, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-costume-help-need-answer-fast/703060 "2014-10-30T22:18:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-costume-help-need-answer-fast/703060/1 "2014-10-30T22:18:56Z")

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The venue: A bar. The band: Old fuddy-duddies who were once New Wave.  
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I have:

Fishnet tights  
A black cocktail hat with a veil (probably more of a fascinator actually)  
Lots of black leather stuff  
Blue hair spray  
White face paint  
Lots of makeup (well, red lipstick, black eyebrow pencil, the aforementioned white stuff)  
Not a lot of time  
No ideas how to pull this all together.

Any ideas?

I do really love this hat & veil.

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**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-costume-help-need-answer-fast/703060/2 "2014-10-30T23:52:25Z")

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Go goth/punk. Leather skirt and shirt (a bodice would be perfect with a jacket), chunk/spike your hair around the hat, dark eye makeup (crazy wings on sides of eyes, big black lashes), bright red lips. I’d skip the white face paint, since I find it sweaty and it gets everywhere. Fishnets and heels or boots.

You could also take a big safety pin, and cut a centimeter or so out of the side, and pinch it around your eyebrow or ear. Or maybe add some warrior stripes on your cheekbone for some pizzazz?

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-costume-help-need-answer-fast/703060/3 "2014-10-31T00:42:30Z")

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What about a punkish version of a Robert Palmer girl (can you get your hands on a red electric guitar?)? Pale face, dramatic red lip, black skimpy outfit. Can you make your face into a blank stare?  
In other news, I just found out Robert Palmer is dead … since 2003. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-costume-help-need-answer-fast/703060/4 "2014-10-31T00:56:50Z")

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Rocky Horror Picture Show … floor show scene! [http://www.rockymusic.org/img/rhpsdvdphotos/RHPS-RoseTintL.png](http://www.rockymusic.org/img/rhpsdvdphotos/RHPS-RoseTintL.png)

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-costume-help-need-answer-fast/703060/5 "2014-10-31T07:44:51Z")

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Excellent ideas! My friend and I are discussing the Palmer Girl thing. (I did not know, either, that he died in 2003. I guess I thought he just disappeared.)

Also loving the safety-pin idea.

Thanks!