Need a good custom idea for a Valentines party

February 10, 2006 3:37 AM

A friend (though not someone I know very well) is having a valentines party... she is encouraging people to dress up... what should I go as?

here is her Evite write up.

It's Valentine's Day, the holiday beloved by Bacchus, the god of safe sex and organic wine. So come hither, to the Bath House, where we will have games, libations, and general merriment.

As an offering to the gods, please don a costume that evokes the spirit of love. (For example: a nudist, Bacchus, Dr. Ruth, a flower child, Heidi Fleiss, a flasher, a celebrity couple, a bride, Venus, the Marquis de Sade, Romeo and Juliet, a j-date employee, or your sweet self.)

Sample the Nectar of the Gods. Spin the bottle. Spend sixty seconds in heaven. Condoms not included.

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I've been to one of her parties when i first got in town about 5 months ago and we have made plans to hang out from tiem to time but it never worked out (we are both kidna busy) so anyway i dont know her TOO well.. and i am not sure if any of my friend will be going with me..

so i need an idea for a custom that will help me socialize (HA!) but not make me feel uncomfortable!

posted by crewshell to society & culture (12 comments total)

A Valentines messenger? You could show up with a bunch of paper hearts and pens, get people to write on them, and deliver them during the party. Gives you something to do and allows you to socialize too.
posted by divabat at 4:10 AM on February 10, 2006

Yikes. I think I'd stay home. A flasher evokes the spirit of love?

Sorry, I know that's not helpful. Maybe you could be a robot with a huge robot penis? Nothing evokes the spirit of love like a robot with a huge robot penis.
posted by TonyRobots at 4:50 AM on February 10, 2006

Pinstripes, baby. Be the heartbreaker.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 5:54 AM on February 10, 2006

The Queen of Hearts? All the better if you're of the male persuasion.
posted by orange swan at 5:59 AM on February 10, 2006

You could go as someone waiting for a blind date. This will allow you to wear regular clothes and meet lots of people by walking up to them and saying "are you [insert sexual-persuasion appropriate name]?"
posted by necessitas at 6:19 AM on February 10, 2006

Better yet, go as the blind date. Dark glasses, white cane, sexy outfit.
posted by orange swan at 6:40 AM on February 10, 2006

Go as Fabio. You're sure to score. Or, if your physique doesn't allow for it, go as some punned-out version of Fabio. Stabio. Carry a butterknife and stab all the hotties.

Get some pink clothes and cover them with red and white splotches. Bingo. You're a genital wart.

Dress up as a Christian Fundamentalist (wear a suit and carry around a dish for the pot-luck, I dunno) and tell everyone to put some damn clothes on and stop sinning.
posted by bondcliff at 7:04 AM on February 10, 2006

Sounds like a hell of a party. Speaking of which, take the glasses-and-cane blind date idea (awesome!) and add horns and a pitchfork. Voila, you're the Blind Date From Hell.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:37 AM on February 10, 2006

Wind lots of Saran Wrap around yourself from head to toe and go as a condom.
posted by scratch at 8:48 AM on February 10, 2006

Since they explicitly requested a flasher, be one. Years back I remember being amused by the description of a flasher halloween costume -- the usual long coat, but instead of being naked underneath, he'd crafted an enormous, erect penis and attached it to his fly -- his overcoat could barely contain it, and the women were delighted, fondling his large, surrogate member.

My initial thought was to get a bow and arrow and go naked, as Cupid, but I'm guessing that would surely make you feel uncomfortable.
posted by Rash at 8:59 AM on February 10, 2006

I'm guessing that would surely make you feel uncomfortable

As well as everyone else.

How about going as Miss Lonelyheart? Dress up in a very prim, stereotypical librarian-style outfit and give all your friends dating advice.
posted by orange swan at 10:00 AM on February 10, 2006

i'm thinkin a post workers uniform and real postbag filled with pretend anonymous valentine cards, addressed in non-personal but gender specific 'love hearts' type way.. maybe go over the top with the messages for a laugh.

postie's a figure people don't subliminally consider a 'stranger' even when they are one & everyone likes to get a valentines card, some of whome may not have gotten one this year.
posted by Kino at 11:32 PM on February 10, 2006