Comments on: Help me Halloween!

Question: Help me Halloween!

thebrokenmuse — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:47:12 -0800

Halloween Costume Filter: I am looking for a somewhat classy character or historical figure to be for Halloween this year that's not overly done. (Think Jackie O, not Marilyn Monroe.)

I am 21 and a redhead, but I can play older or younger depending on the genius of the costume. In the past I have been Dorothy Parker, Pepper Potts, Ginger Spice and Heidi Fleiss. (So... I'm somewhat flexible on the "classy".)

Thanks kids!

By: welephant

welephant — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:11:12 -0800

Zombie Jackie O?

By: thebrokenmuse

thebrokenmuse — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:14:31 -0800

Oh and also- I refuse to be Sarah Palin.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:47:29 -0800

Auntie Mame?

By: Roman Graves

Roman Graves — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:04:41 -0800

If it doesn't have to be a redhead, I'd suggest Tippi Hedren with some birds attached to your hat/wig. Classy and holiday appropriate.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:05:15 -0800

Red Emma

By: empyrean

empyrean — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:08:48 -0800

Riffing on quirky/red hair just to narrow down some ideas:

You could be the character Joan (played by Christina Hendricks) from the TV show Man Men. It would need some period clothes, hair, accessories and the right attitude. I think it could be fun for the right person. A little obscure, but you mentioned Dorothy Parker and there couldn't have been many people who knew that one. Great idea, by the way.

Audrey Hepburn? A few options to go with there. It could be fun playing with a cockney accent and doing a My Fair Lady costume. Very prim and proper, but let a few cockney phrases slip out at random moments. I think it's amusing, anyway.

By: thebrokenmuse

thebrokenmuse — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:31:15 -0800

Does not have to be redhead specific! I just thought it might be a good jumping off point. I have no qualms with donning a wig.

By: padraigin

padraigin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:35:05 -0800

When I was about 24 and a redhead, I went as Jackie Kennedy. Pink suit, pillbox hat, big sunglasses, white gloves, and a couple of tubes of fake blood splattered all over me. Just cruised around the party waving and smiling as though I didn't even know my husband had just been assassinated all over me.

I won a case of beer at the costume contest.

I wouldn't say it was classy, per se, but it was pretty great. And given that I did it ten years ago and two thousand miles away from where you're going to do it, I think you're more than welcome to consider it as an option.

I found the suit and gloves at a thrift store and made the hat myself with a stapler, cardboard and a quarter yard of pink cotton from a local fabric store.

The girl who came in second to me, by the way, was the Mona Lisa. She just wandered around in a long dress with a big picture frame attached to herself, smiling enigmatically.

By: essexjan

essexjan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:19:39 -0800

Rita Hayworth as Gilda.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:28:39 -0800

Might be too subtle, but Ginger from Gilligan's Island, Ann Margret, Lucille Ball, Mary Jane from Spiderman, maybe some others..yeah, Rita Hayworth is good. You should embrace the red!

By: plokent

plokent — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:36:30 -0800

Time Warp Wives: Meet the Women Who Really Do Live in the Past

Atomic Magazine: The Essential Guide to the Retro Revival

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:48:40 -0800

Amelia Earheart? It strikes me as easy to get together -- just some slacks, shirt, and a bomber jacket, plus pilots' cap and goggles.

By: lalalana

lalalana — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:54:48 -0800

I went as Little Edie Bouvier Beale from Grey Gardens a few years back. My boyfriend was the undead version of her beau, Joe Kennedy, Jr., who was the one who was supposed to be president but died in WWII. I wore the whole getup - headscarf, old school brown bathing suit with tights, heels, "fur" coat, lots of bling. He wore the classic preppy summer outfit-- seer sucker and boat shoes and pink and green and whatnot... with zombie makeup. We ran into 4 bloody Jackie 0-undead JFK combos that night...

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:40:59 -0800

For whatever it's worth, if you were dressed as Jackie-O my first guess would be that you were Dr. Girlfriend.

By: fiercecupcake

fiercecupcake — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:20:41 -0800

Holly Golightly? Bonus points if you have a cat.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:03:11 -0800

Carmen Sandiego.

By: aleahey

aleahey — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:10:37 -0800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_roosevelt

By: Verdandi

Verdandi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:41:29 -0800

Totally inspired by Merriam-Webster's word of the day...

You could dress all in red and carry around a fake herring (or a framed picture of one).

... yeah, I just woke up.

By: banannafish

banannafish — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:15:30 -0800

Rosie the Riverter.

By: saturngirl

saturngirl — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:24:53 -0800

You could go the comic book character route, since you've done Pepper Potts before (which is brilliant btw)... quite a few red-headed heroines out there:

Batgirl
Jean Grey/Phoenix
Starfire (ok, so that costume isn't very classy)

By: 23skidoo

23skidoo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:11:15 -0800

Cruella DeVil.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:51:13 -0800

Bella the Hat

By: i_love_squirrels

i_love_squirrels — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:17:49 -0800

Scarlett O'Hara