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23 October 2006

I'm not really down with Halloween, but I have to go to a party, and I have to dress up. There is a theme: Good vs Evil. I have no imagination. Help me, bunnies!

post by: gaspode at: 14:31 | 26 comments

uh, yeah: ideas please? Anyone?

posted by gaspode 23 October | 14:32

Dress up as a weevil and say you thought it was a Good vs Weevil party.

posted by Specklet 23 October | 14:33

Sorry. Or, you could do the traditional sexy devil with a little horns and a low-cut red shirt...

posted by Specklet 23 October | 14:34

You must be evil.
or science.
How about evil science?

or a hussy. Write hussy on your chest.

posted by ethylene 23 October | 14:36

Evil Science Hussy! Wear a red bustier, fishnets, heels & a lab coat, bright red lipstick, crazy Einstein hair and carry a smoking beaker that says DOOM on it in large cartoon-y letters. Or if the smoking beaker is problematic, carry some files that say PLANS FOR NUKING EARTH FROM ORBIT on them. Laugh evilly a lot.

posted by mygothlaundry 23 October | 14:47

(i stopped myself from saying that.)
Make your husband dress as vermin. Play with his brain.

Or be something totally ambiguous so people have to try and figure out if your are good or evil.

posted by ethylene 23 October | 14:50

Evil science hussy gets me excited. Lab coat required.

posted by matildaben 23 October | 14:53

She needs a riding crop.
And a flask.

Not for anything in particular, but i just think she should have them around, just in case.

posted by ethylene 23 October | 14:57

Heh, I like that, MGL.

(I think mr. g is going to be Nietzsche - and be beyond good and evil. omg I married such a nerd)

posted by gaspode 23 October | 15:01

What a fun theme.

High concept - just wear something made out of hundreds of small mirrors.

My thought is that a lot of poeple are going to go with evil - evil characters are so much more fun to think of than your basic nuns, Mother Teresas, and angels. So here are a few:

Jezebel
Tokyo Rose (I'd enjoy that one!)
Medusa
Cruella DeVille
Lady Macbeth
Phyllis Schlafly
Circe...
=

posted by Miko 23 October | 15:14

How about just the archetypal villain--with a top hat and swirly 'stache?

Or go in super snazzy male drag and when people ask who you are say, "Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste........"

on preview: Ooooh! I've done Medusa. It's dead easy: Bed sheet toga and dollar store plastic snakes.

posted by jrossi4r 23 October | 15:16

you guys rock. I never would have thought of these in a million years. *kisses you all*

posted by gaspode 23 October | 15:19

How about just the archetypal villain--with a top hat and swirly 'stache?

You could do the good twin/evil twin thingie, wearing a moustache (do female evil twins also wear moustaches?) and taking it off from time to time. You should also adjust your behaviour accordingly.

posted by Daniel Charms 23 October | 15:20

Be ambiguous and dress up as this guy.

posted by deadcowdan 23 October | 15:28

Cthulhu?

posted by Hugh Janus 23 October | 15:47

Zombie Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Zombie Richard Dawkins.
Zombie abortion doctor.
Zombie Phyllis Diller.
Zombie Kareem Abdul-Jabar.

or you could be a Halloween stereotype that resulted from a faulty matter transportation device transfer:
afro wig
nurse hat
cat ears
pirate eyepatch and parrot
Dracula fangs
zombie makeup
robot body or arms
cheerleader outfit
bunny tail
fishnets
clown shoes and nose

or you could wear an old t-shirt that says "I'm not really down with Halloween". They'd probably put you on the evil side of the room, which is where you want to be anyway.

posted by Hellbient 23 October | 15:51

Man, now i really wanna be Cthulhu

i feel so unhalloweenie so far and that's always wrong

posted by ethylene 23 October | 15:55

Get a spoiler to a recent film and scrawl it in lipstick on a t-shirt.
e.g. "Bruce Willis is a ghost".

Of course, if it's a liberal event full of anti-war hippies and Lovey democrats, you could tread the thin line between being evil and portraying evil.

posted by seanyboy 23 October | 16:59

Get a spoiler to a recent film and scrawl it in lipstick on a t-shirt.
e.g. "Bruce Willis is a ghost".

Hey!

posted by dersins 23 October | 17:07

Great minds...

posted by seanyboy 23 October | 17:08

Hecubus!

posted by jrossi4r 23 October | 17:11

Hibiscus

posted by seanyboy 23 October | 17:13

Alan Partridge Style Zombie

posted by seanyboy 23 October | 17:42

IF you go with The Mister, do War and Peace.

posted by rainbaby 24 October | 07:17

If it's good v. evil, maybe a half-and-half costume would be fun? I'm going as half concentration camp victim, half Nazi this year, so that would kind of fit. (Yeah, I know, disgusting, but I need to raise my game from last year's 7/7 suicide bomber outfit.)

posted by jack_mo 24 October | 08:13

That was more offensive in writing, jack_mo, but the picture is pretty damn funny. I'm fascinated by this year's costume - are you going to split down the middle, vertically, or at the waist, horizontally. I think the latter would be more effective.

posted by Hellbient 24 October | 13:17

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