Vanity -- Help! I need unique couple costume ideas

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[soccermom]

OK, I know this isn't the most urgent request. But I need to tap the creative juices of freepers. Do you have any suggestions for unique costume ideas for couples? I'm ususally creative, but this party came up at the last minute and I haven't a thing to wear! Ideas?

[DallasDeb]

Ant Tracks--too funny!

[DallasDeb]

Twin towers would definitely be in poor taste. Ant tracks is funny.

[DallasDeb]

#10--I don't get it. Please 'splain it to me.

[chit*chat]

My husband and I usually masquerade as a happily married couple on Halloween. ;o) c*c

[DallasDeb]

A macabre addition is sprinkle corn starch, baby powder, or baking soda over you and tell everyone it is anthrax.

The authorities are taking these jokes very seriously.

[balrog666]

Here's three good ones for adults:

1) Dead Miss America (put on an old, moldy dress, add a banner with an ancient year, use flat pancake makeup, frizzy hair, temporarily glue a few leaves or some dirt to the costume or yourself, and, of course, use a really stiff, deadpan expression).

2) Use a round black costume and dress up as an 8-ball (white=cue ball, orange with monster feet=Pinback's alien).

3) Tie yourself up with lots of road flares and go as a terrorist (oops, maybe you better stay home).

4) Take a pool cue and add a dress and some clothes hangers for limbs. Take it with you and claim to be Calista Flockhart's date.

[etcetera]

EPA guys checking for anthrax - Tyvek suit, gas mask, rubber gloves, rubber boots...

[N. Theknow]

but this party came up at the last minute and I haven't a thing to wear!

Eve said the same thing.

[ikanakattara]

This depends on how big the husband is: Have him go as a harem girl, and her go as the sheik.

[N. Theknow]

happily married

Oxymoron.

[Phantom Lord]

Go as Mr. Garrison and Mr. Hat

[Norb2569]

A bald man with a wooden leg gets invited to a Halloween party. He doesn't know what costume to wear to hide his head and his leg so he writes to a costume company to explain his problem.

A few days later he received a parcel with the following note "Dear Sir, Please find enclosed a pirate's outfit. The spotted handkerchief will cover your bald head and, with your wooden leg, you will be just right as a pirate.
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co."

The man thinks this is terrible because they have just emphasized his wooden leg and so he writes a letter of complaint.

A week goes by and he receives another parcel and a note, which says "Dear Sir, Please find enclosed a monk's habit. The long robe will cover your wooden leg and, with your bald head, you will really look the part. Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co."

Now the man is really upset since they have gone from emphasizing his wooden leg to emphasizing his bald head so again he writes the company another nasty letter of complaint. The next day he gets a small parcel and a note which reads:
"Dear Sir, Please find the enclosed bottle of molasses. Pour the molasses over your bald head, stick your wooden leg up your ass and go as a caramel apple.
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co."

[sonserae]

One time I went as the Main Course. It was very funny.
Take a large piece of cardboard and buy a tin baking pan
that you usually bake a turkey in. Cut a hole in the
cardboard and the tin pan and a slit down the cardboard to
fit your head in. Lie the cardboard flat, decorate and staple
the cardboard with a paper table cloth and
staple plastic fork,knife etc.. Put the "table" over your
head, fit your head in the baking tin, having your
head looking like it's sitting in the baking tin.
Put an apple in your mouth and walk around.
Everyone cracks up.

[Paul Atreides]

It will depend on your child. For a boy, dress him up in cowboy boots and hat with jeans and appropriate shirt, put a big W on the front of the hat and have him dragging a fake Osama Bin Laden around with a noose around its neck.

For a girl, dress her up as a hazmat tech holding a long pole with a black pantsuit dangling from the end and a label that says "Biotoxin" on it.

[weegee]

Go as Osama bin Laden and Evil Bert.

Best suggestion of the thread...

Hear in the news how people are going as Osama this year. It only makes sense if there is a good partner costume.Missles, etc. work but aren't as classic as this pairing.

Tourist guy is good but I don't think enough people are in on the joke. A better idea would be if the party host had a mockup board of the first tourist guy photo with the head cut out so party guests could put their face in the picture...

[packrat01]

You could go as the bogey-man-and-woman. Sprinkle yourselves with powdered sugar, and scare everyone there.

[N. Theknow]

Best outfits I ever saw was when two of our friends came dressed in raincoats.

Both of them threw the raincoats open at the same time and "flashed" the party as "senior citizen flashers".

They were wearing bodystockings.
He had a stocking stuffed and tied in a knot at the top with black and white yarn sewn around where the stocking was sewn to the body stocking at the crotch.
She had two knee high stockings stuffed and dangling from her chest with appropriate black and white yarn sewn in her crotch.
The guy had pants cut off and held up by garters so when the raincoat was closed it looked like he had on pants underneath. He also had a collar with a black bowtie. When we first saw them we thought they were going to a formal party after stopping by our party, because the woman had a formal gown sewn around the bottom of her raincoat.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Go as an Afghan woman with a burqua outfit. Of course, you'll have to think of a neat sign to hang around your neck too.

Here's a pic of custume and the sign to go along with it.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Go as an Afghan woman with a burqua outfit. Of course, you'll have to think of a neat sign to hang around your neck too.

Here's a pic of custume and the sign to go along with it.

[geege]

Hi soccermom....this costume is a little "outdated" but it won us first prize back in the 80's.....we were the California rasins....we slapped brown theater makeup on our faces, wore brown tights and a brown body suite, a bow tie, gloves with bow ties and got in a brown garbage bag stuffed with newspaper....We beat out the crayola crayons....and they worked on their costume for months!!!!! Good luck!!!!