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Halloween Costumes

Miss 1929

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This I HAVE to see!

Doran said:
I'm gonna be Sarah Palin. My friend works in a costume shop and she already has the wig and the right glasses. She'll also do the makeup. I'll shave my legs and I'll get some sort of skirt-suit at a thrift store and shoes. (No, I am not dressing like her out of admiration, before you ask.)

So we'll be there!
 

DerMann

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Toga.

None of this bedsheet bollocks, either. Mine is made from heavy cotton canvas so it drapes properly. It also weighs a good 3-5 pounds.
 

Mrs. Merl

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Will anyone be posting their actual pictures here after they are all Halloweened out? I sure hope so because I would like to see the results of all these ideas!
 

Odalisque

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Mrs. Merl said:
Will anyone be posting their actual pictures here after they are all Halloweened out? I sure hope so because I would like to see the results of all these ideas!

Well, I certainly plan to! I hope everyone else does...I'd love to see them all.
 

gingermore

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I'm going to a "D and M" 30th birthday party (D and M are the initials of my two friends whose party it is) so I can go dressed as something beginning with either D or M or both. With all of that freedom I'm at a loss for ideas! Any help appreciated.
 

DerMann

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Kassia said:
I have decided to do as the Raven from Edgar Allen Poe's poem...
That reminds me of something my friend once did.

While on his way into work, he saw a dead raven on the ground. He took a piece of paper, tore it to look like a speech bubble and wrote, "Never more."

I laughed for a good while when he told me about it.
 

Rachael

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gingermore said:
I'm going to a "D and M" 30th birthday party (D and M are the initials of my two friends whose party it is) so I can go dressed as something beginning with either D or M or both. With all of that freedom I'm at a loss for ideas! Any help appreciated.

You could be the Mona Lisa. Or a madam.
 

BeBopBaby

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DerMann said:
Toga.

None of this bedsheet bollocks, either. Mine is made from heavy cotton canvas so it drapes properly. It also weighs a good 3-5 pounds.

Awesome. I decided to go the historically-accurate route for my Madame Defarge outfit. Everything is heavy linen. I weighed it all - stockings, shift, under petticoat, jumps, pockets, over petticoat, jacket, fichu, cap and straw hat and everything comes in at just under 10 lbs. lol
 

BeBopBaby

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I got invited last-minute to a 1929-Coney Island themed party and wanted to go as the tattooed lady. I got one of those flesh-colored shirts that makes you look like you have tatoos all over, but I'm at a loss as to what to wear with it because this is so last minute. Does anyone have any ideas for a last minute outfit? I went through my closet and don't have anything that would really work. Help, I don't know what to do! :)
 

maggiethespy

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Well, I've got two occasions to wear a costume now, so I'm thinking I need two costumes.

I was really considering going as Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. I'd wear a Black 40's dress, black heels with seamed stockings, my hair in pin curls, a great big silk dahlia in my hair, and I'd do some stage makeup to draw on slits on either side of my mouth and maybe make myself look a little dead.

Do you folks think anyone will get it?
 

Paisley

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Sounds like a great costume, but I don't know if anyone but vintage enthusiasts would get it. (Even I would need it spelled out.)

A few years ago, I dressed up as a runaway bride, back when that woman disappeared right before her wedding, and then the police took her away. Nobody got it. [huh]
 

Odalisque

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maggiethespy said:
Well, I've got two occasions to wear a costume now, so I'm thinking I need two costumes.

I was really considering going as Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. I'd wear a Black 40's dress, black heels with seamed stockings, my hair in pin curls, a great big silk dahlia in my hair, and I'd do some stage makeup to draw on slits on either side of my mouth and maybe make myself look a little dead.

Do you folks think anyone will get it?
I think people will get it since they made the movie just a few years ago.
 

Kassia

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BeBopBaby said:
I got invited last-minute to a 1929-Coney Island themed party and wanted to go as the tattooed lady. I got one of those flesh-colored shirts that makes you look like you have tatoos all over, but I'm at a loss as to what to wear with it because this is so last minute. Does anyone have any ideas for a last minute outfit? I went through my closet and don't have anything that would really work. Help, I don't know what to do! :)


Google Betty Broadbent to get ideas.....
 

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