Comments on: I refuse to dress at Captain Jack Sparrow again

Question: I refuse to dress at Captain Jack Sparrow again

dead_ — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:03:21 -0800

Halloween costume ideas for someone with dreadlocks?

I have relatively long dreadlocks, and I find it challenging to come up with a good costume as they usually overwhelm any character I'm trying to portray.

For example, this year someone had suggested that my friends and I go as characters from the Big Lebowski (unoriginal, I know), but my hair would make this nearly impossible to pull off.

Any fun/different costume ideas that either would incorporate my hairstyle or wouldn't be affected by it?

By: arco

arco — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:04:55 -0800

Reggae zombie. "Braaaaaaains, mon!"

By: punkrockrat

punkrockrat — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:10:35 -0800

Predator!

By: stevil

stevil — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:11:39 -0800

Those white-coated twins from the Matrix movies. Weren't they dreaded?

By: chiababe

chiababe — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:11:42 -0800

Excuse the cliche, but how about Bob Marley?

By: casarkos

casarkos — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:15:46 -0800

Palm tree?

By: amro

amro — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:15:53 -0800

Rob Zombie?

By: Addlepated

Addlepated — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:16:25 -0800

Sideshow Bob!

By: MrZero

MrZero — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:16:46 -0800

Predator would be awesome!

By: amro

amro — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:17:05 -0800

I bet you could incorporate the dreadlocks and pull off Sideshow Bob, too.

By: mmascolino

mmascolino — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:20:50 -0800

Can you pull them into two bunches on opposides of your head and do a real freaky version of Pippi Longstocking?

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:21:05 -0800

How about a mop?

By: dead_

dead_ — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:22:45 -0800

Great ideas so far, haha. Please keep them coming!

By: mustcatchmooseandsquirrel

mustcatchmooseandsquirrel — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:27:09 -0800

Medusa!

By: lain

lain — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:27:45 -0800

Pirate!!!
Sideshow Bob is an excellent idea

By: NoraCharles

NoraCharles — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:28:42 -0800

You could go as the lead singer of Counting Crows, Adam Duritz. He's pretty recognizable and has dreds.

By: vetiver

vetiver — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:33:53 -0800

Seconding Medusa -- super-easy and striking.

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:45:51 -0800

Flying Spaghetti Monster!

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:48:51 -0800

The Predator would be cool, but really hard. I like the idea of the guys from The Matrix (your friends could be other characters). Also, I could see The Dude wearing dreads, man. Maybe not Walter, but The Dude, sure!

By: jamaro

jamaro — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:55:13 -0800

Wear a clear plastic shower cap splashed with some color and some crinkly plastic rubber-banded on your dreads: a jellyfish*

*see Shark Tale for visual reference.

By: hummercash

hummercash — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:58:13 -0800

how about the blue opera singer from the 5th element? assuming you're not a guy...

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:01:07 -0800

Could you go as 1/4 of Bad Brains?

By: i8ny3x

i8ny3x — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:13:07 -0800

palm tree

By: onhazier

onhazier — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:14:35 -0800

Ronon Dex from Stargate Atlantis?

By: kyleg

kyleg — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:31:46 -0800

How about Lil' Jon? Pretty much any excuse to have a pimp cup is a good costume.

And if you can't get through the night on "Yeaaaah," "What," or "Okay," then you need to be at a cooler party.

By: dgeiser13

dgeiser13 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:44:36 -0800

Hermes from Futurama?

By: box

box — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:48:08 -0800

Don't write off Lebowski just yet--consider dressing as Jesus.

Or there's always the characters from Battlefield Earth.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:54:01 -0800

How about Bo Derek from the movie 10? You could put big beads in your hair and run everywhere in slow motion.

By: dgeiser13

dgeiser13 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:56:07 -0800

Romulus Ledbetter from The Caveman's Valentine?

By: aquanaut

aquanaut — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:17:44 -0800

one of the most clever costumes i've seen was a guy who gelled his long hair straight up & stuck a wire in a necktie making it go straight up as well. he was the falling guy! don't know if it would work with your dreads, but it looked really cool.

By: 23skidoo

23skidoo — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:31:09 -0800

Sea anenome.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:32:24 -0800

.The Unibomber - hoodie would cover the dreads.
.Lenny Kravitz
.Little Miss Muffet
.Whoopie Goldberg
.The Sun - gel your dreads and wire them, make them into the rays of the sun, paint your face yellow with rosy cheeks
.A Topiary - spray your dreads green, gel and wire them and arrange them into a conical shape or a ball and paint your face tree-trunk brown with rings on it

By: ubersturm

ubersturm — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:45:31 -0800

Comic book characters - Boy or Jim Crow from the Invisibles. You could pull off a Delerium [Sandman] costume with dreads, probaby, particularly if you were willing to use some short-lived hairdye [like Manic Panic.] There are probably others that I'm not thinking of.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:55:07 -0800

(When I had dreads, I found semi-permanent hair dye to be damn near permanent. It would fade out of the surface of the dreads, but remain in the center. You might want to think twice before dying them with anything but that spray-on shit.)

By: fillsthepews

fillsthepews — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:02:50 -0800

what about turning the dreads into snakes somehow? be snakehead-guy.

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:04:22 -0800

Doesn't Captain Jack Sparrow have dreads now?

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:04:56 -0800

I really should read the titles of these things...

By: muddylemon

muddylemon — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:10:51 -0800

That john travolta movie... the scientology one... I really don't want to look it up, just to keep it out of my brain.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:30:41 -0800

I'm probably going to tie my dreads up and go as a pineapple. My other idea is to be a muppet, even though most of them don't have dreads it still seems appropriate.

By: Rubber Soul

Rubber Soul — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:33:10 -0800

Kit Fisto?

By: dead_

dead_ — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:13:26 -0800

OK. It's going to be Lil Jon! Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. Brilliant stuff in here. Perhaps I took the easy way out, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to utilize a pimp cup, gold teeth and an Atlanta Falcons sweatsuit!!