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October 22, 2016 5:22 PM Subscribe
Help me dress up like a Crossroads (as in, Blues musician Robert Johnson selling his soul to Satan at a crossroads)....
My husband and I are heading out on a Blues Cruise next week-chartered cruise ship with Blues musicians performing day and night. There is a big Halloween party, and I'd like to do something more in keeping with the theme than the ideas we've come up with so far (Morticia and Uncle Fester, Skipper and Gilligan). My favorite idea so far Is the crossroads, but need ideas how to implement. All in grey or black with a hat that has two road signs? How can I make the signs? What should the signs say? Ideas for husband's costume? Or can you throw a better idea our way?
My husband and I are heading out on a Blues Cruise next week-chartered cruise ship with Blues musicians performing day and night. There is a big Halloween party, and I'd like to do something more in keeping with the theme than the ideas we've come up with so far (Morticia and Uncle Fester, Skipper and Gilligan). My favorite idea so far Is the crossroads, but need ideas how to implement. All in grey or black with a hat that has two road signs? How can I make the signs? What should the signs say? Ideas for husband's costume? Or can you throw a better idea our way?
Just off the top of my head, you could make something similar to a ruff composed of two roads intersecting at your throat.
posted by rhizome at 5:41 PM on October 22, 2016
posted by rhizome at 5:41 PM on October 22, 2016
Your husband could definitely be the Devil if you're the crossroads. You could make something like the sign at the crossroads on your hat, even just by drawing the 49/61 signs on poster board and attaching them to each other. It would be extra cool if you could find a prop blue guitar.
You could be a sun and your husband could be a house, and together you could be Son House! Or, one of you could be a lemon, and the other could be Thomas Jefferson, and together you could be (Blind) Lemon Jefferson! Or one of you could be a muddy river (Muddy Waters) and the other could be a wolf (Howlin Wolf).
posted by quiet coyote at 5:45 PM on October 22, 2016
You could be a sun and your husband could be a house, and together you could be Son House! Or, one of you could be a lemon, and the other could be Thomas Jefferson, and together you could be (Blind) Lemon Jefferson! Or one of you could be a muddy river (Muddy Waters) and the other could be a wolf (Howlin Wolf).
posted by quiet coyote at 5:45 PM on October 22, 2016
The soul you are selling should be the sole of a shoe.
posted by jbenben at 5:50 PM on October 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by jbenben at 5:50 PM on October 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
You both could dress in head-to-toe blue. One could have a Greek letter delta on their shirt (or just the word delta) and be the Delta blues. The other could have a picture of the Sears Tower on their shirt and be the Chicago blues.
posted by quiet coyote at 5:55 PM on October 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by quiet coyote at 5:55 PM on October 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
You could pin or sew two long strips of fabric, for roads, across your front in a criss-cross, then maybe attach a road sign along the top of each sleeve (for full crossroad sign effect, you'd have to hold your arms up, but it would get the point across). Bonus: won't accidentally hit people when you are in a crowded party.
posted by amtho at 5:55 PM on October 22, 2016
posted by amtho at 5:55 PM on October 22, 2016
It's silly but you could have whatever for clothes- long sleeve shirt. Monochrome, whatever it is. Then get a very wide iron-on ribbon (by far the easiest). Get a fabric paint to do the lines in the road. Iron on one road on up your sleeve, shoulder, then down the other side.
The other road is up one leg, up the front of the shirt and down the back.
The fun part is how you do the road signs. The silliest way is getting one of these and putting each highway sign on the top.
posted by ReluctantViking at 6:13 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
The other road is up one leg, up the front of the shirt and down the back.
The fun part is how you do the road signs. The silliest way is getting one of these and putting each highway sign on the top.
posted by ReluctantViking at 6:13 PM on October 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
If I were you, I'd dress up as a low-key charismatic devil (a suit with some red, or some costume horns, or "Hello, My Name is Mephistopheles" nametag-- you don't need to look like an all-red Satan for costume purposes), and wear two sashes in the fashion that amtho describes in a previous comment.
Sashes should be asphalt gray to black if possible, and then you can sew or pin on narrow white ribbons on either side, plus a yellow ribbon in the center which could run through the sash from front to back as needed to get the dashed-line effect. You can terminate the ribbons as needed to form an intersection, even if the two sashes aren't actually connected-- they should overlap in a consistent way for the most part. Really just the one on top needs the interruption in the lines.
If at all possible, wear a blues guitar on your back, or a mockup. When someone asks if you play it, just say no, but the previous owner won't be needing it anymore.
posted by Sunburnt at 6:18 PM on October 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
Sashes should be asphalt gray to black if possible, and then you can sew or pin on narrow white ribbons on either side, plus a yellow ribbon in the center which could run through the sash from front to back as needed to get the dashed-line effect. You can terminate the ribbons as needed to form an intersection, even if the two sashes aren't actually connected-- they should overlap in a consistent way for the most part. Really just the one on top needs the interruption in the lines.
If at all possible, wear a blues guitar on your back, or a mockup. When someone asks if you play it, just say no, but the previous owner won't be needing it anymore.
posted by Sunburnt at 6:18 PM on October 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
Don't forget a dog stuffie for a hellhound.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 7:52 PM on October 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by robocop is bleeding at 7:52 PM on October 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
Do it with face paint. Run one road across the brow, and the other down the middle. Make one side of the down road, red, and the other blue. Find a set of devil horns, and cut them in half, put the horn on the red side. But some black music notes maybe in both sides. If you could do a half red and half blue suit, that would be awesome.
Cause I'm standin' at the crossroads, I believe I'm sinkin' down.
posted by Oyéah at 9:11 AM on October 23, 2016
Cause I'm standin' at the crossroads, I believe I'm sinkin' down.
posted by Oyéah at 9:11 AM on October 23, 2016
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