Halloween costume ideas?

two years ago my best friend and I dressed up as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from The Cat in the Hat. We wore red tights and red shirts and sprayed our hair blue. We went down to the village in NYC, just walking around the closed-off streets (no parade crowd for us). We were a big hit! Everyone wanted our picture, which was great, because we weren't the standard "naughty schoolgirl/nurse/angel/ho" but we were plenty cute anyway.

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker? Powerpuff girls? One year I spent an inordinate amount of time putting togather a half/half drag (1/2 suit, 1/2 dress, split vertically) outfit. I suppose you could use the other half of the clothes and make a 2nd outfit. (I got the suit/gown at a local Salvation Army thrift store) The hardest part was making the below-the-hip dress side blend in with the pants side (I ended up using some stiff wire I had around and sewed it under the inside edge but that wasn't enough so I ended up having to "pantsuit" it).

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I know some girls who dressed last year as a pinata and a pinnata ..., a ...., well whatever you call the person that hits the pinata. The pinata covered herself in colored tissue paper and wore a belt with bags of candy attached. The other girl had one of those huge inflatable bats and a pair of panty hose tied over here eyes as a blindfold she could see through. She also had on a big Mexican hat. They would go and start singing the Mexican hat dance song, throw the hat down on the ground and dance around it, and then the one would beat the pinata girl with the bat until the pinata girl threw out some candy. It was great fun.

A friend and I had great success one year going as Spy vs. Spy. I was white spy, she was black spy. It was easily identifiable and fun. A boyfriend and I once went as Sam Adams and the St. Pauli Girl. For this year, I had thought a great costume would be Chairman Kaga from Iron Chef. However, I don't want a drag costume this year. Feel free to steal the idea; one of you could be Kaga, and the other could be another Iron Chef, or perhaps one of the airheaded female soap stars they always have on as a judge.

Well, one Halloween about 8 years ago, i went to a Bob Dylan concert and several people showed up in costume, including two women in identical raincoats. On one was written, in big black magic marker, the number 12. On the other, 25. [There was also a woman there wearing a leopard skin pill box hat.]

One year three of my friends went out dressed as Teletubbies...but since the fourth guy they had recruited decided to bail on them, they salvaged the idea by carrying around a disembodied Teletubby head. Knock together a simple head shape out of fabric, cram it full of batting, stick a particularly gory Halloween mask in the face-hole. It was brilliant, and probably better than actually having the fourth guy there. Failing that...Alice and the Queen of Hearts? The Mad Hatter and the March Hare? Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo? Ren and Stimpy? If you run out of time, an excellent slacker costume is the "lost Ramone": leather jacket, striped shirt, ripped black jeans, white sneakers, sunglasses. Who doesn't have most of that in their closet already?

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Me and my best friend were going to go as Betty and Wilma. We thought the costumes would be pretty easy to make since they were just raggedy cloth. You can also buy the hair bones at a local costume shop although I think it would be much more authentic if you went to a butcher and asked for a real one. (You could bleach it for a few days to get the meat off). We also thought of girlscouts who had been in a bear attack but ended up choosing her as an umpire and me a baseball player only adorned with http://www.halloweenmart.com/wecs.php?store=halloweenmar&action=display&target=CSWO197. I would suggest going to buycostumes.com to get some inspiration. Also, http://marriage.about.com/od/halloween/ss/couplecostume.htm although I haven't looked through them all. Good luck.