Help! Costume Deficient

June 4, 2006 4:54 PM

What costume would be good?

For the Bonnaroo Ball This Year.

My girlfriend and I are going to Manchester Tennessee this year for Bonnaroo and they've just added a masquerade ball. We've been wracking our brains to try and come up with something cool and something that will stand out but so far we're not coming up with much. The only thing I even kind of came up with was going as Shaun fro SoTD, but I'm not attached to it. We could use any ideas you guys can come up with.

posted by Hexidecimal to Media & Arts (20 answers total)

You be an antelope and have her be a lion. No one ever does that.
posted by zerokey at 4:59 PM on June 4, 2006

Last year, I was a lion for Halloween. It was a fun and easy costume; I used an old hooded sweatshirt, dyed tan with RIT dye, and I sewed a piece of carpet on the belly. Then I put some yarn fringe around the hood, made a tail, etc. I just wore it with brown pants and some slippers, I think.

But, this year, I'm going as a zombie Abraham Lincoln. For some reason, I find the concept of going as a zombie ______ hilarious. Maybe no one else does.
posted by rossination at 5:02 PM on June 4, 2006

I have a friend who's done pirate _____ costumes for the last couple of years. Off the top of my head I can remember Catholic schoolgirl pirate and pirate MC Hammer. I always find them strangely hilarious.
posted by MsMolly at 5:31 PM on June 4, 2006

You're the mitt and she's the baseball?

You're a horror movie murderer and she's the sheriff?
posted by Amizu at 5:33 PM on June 4, 2006

Simulated Zombie Pirate Abraham Lincoln, escaped from the Holo-Shed?
posted by Orb2069 at 5:33 PM on June 4, 2006

Go with something specific to the event that everyone wants or needs. Be a five dollar bottle of water. Be a functional shower. Be a bonaroo ticket stub. Be the brown LSD that everyone should stay away from. Be the Kool Ade guy and your s/o a brick wall.
Otherwise, the internet is full of ideas.
posted by enfa at 6:45 PM on June 4, 2006

Catholic schoolgirl pirate

I would quite like to see pictures of this. For, you know, research purposes.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 6:55 PM on June 4, 2006

a masquerade, eh? How about the real thing?

unless by masquerade everyone just means "pretend it's halloween"? then i got nothing....
posted by blind.wombat at 6:55 PM on June 4, 2006

I'd totally vote for tuxedos (for both of you; a woman in a tux can be an incredibly sexy thing) and thoroughly gorgeous Italianate (think Commedia del'Arte) masks.

Picture the mansion scenes in Eyes Wide Shut, and you've got the idea.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:07 PM on June 4, 2006

How about a zebra costume for two.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 7:23 PM on June 4, 2006

I would quite like to see pictures of this. For, you know, research purposes.

Well, if it's for research...

With faces hidden to protect the innocent, famous original Catholic schoolgirl pirate. It got even funnier later in the night when he tied the shirt above his navel, Britney Spears-style.

Also, please pirate Hammer, don't hurt 'em.
posted by MsMolly at 7:36 PM on June 4, 2006

I would think Vendetta-related costumes would be ideal for a masquerade. Although coming across a buzzcut bald-cap might be hard.
posted by vanoakenfold at 9:06 PM on June 4, 2006

I was a lego figurine last year. It's a cheap costume that you can make on your own. You can follow this guy's instructions (which I modified with a belt sander, band saw, and mill).
posted by lester the unlikely at 9:09 PM on June 4, 2006

Cosplay! If "Sailor Bubba" can do it, why can't you?

(Well, maybe not...)
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 10:54 PM on June 4, 2006

I still laugh every time I see a couple dressed as Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay from Risky Business, which the idea itself is stolen from the movie Never Been Kissed. Pink hooker dress and blond wig for her; Ray-Bans, dress shirt and tighty-whities for him.
posted by frogan at 11:32 PM on June 4, 2006 [1 favorite]

Blind.wombat's link is so cool, I want to buy a mask now and I haven't even got anywhere to wear it!!
posted by schmoo at 12:14 AM on June 5, 2006

Hands down best couple's costume I've ever seen: Thing 1 and Thing 2 (from the Cat and the Hat). Bonus: it's easy to do.
posted by zanni at 1:28 AM on June 5, 2006

My ex-wife and I once went as a plug and socket. I was the plug.
posted by plinth at 5:04 AM on June 5, 2006

But, this year, I'm going as a zombie Abraham Lincoln. For some reason, I find the concept of going as a zombie ______ hilarious. Maybe no one else does.

Wow, I was Zombie Lincoln last year. My girlfriend and I made cookies shaped like brains and whoever ate them became Zombie _____ themselves.

We may have converted half a party into zombies.
posted by rabbitsnake at 6:26 AM on June 5, 2006

(Yeah, I was Zombie Little Red Riding Hood. The basket was an appropriate prop and an ideal brain cookie transport.)
posted by penchant at 11:50 AM on June 8, 2006