costume ideas...

there's this "day of the dead" party coming up, at which "people coming in costume will receive special adulation." Adulation would be fun :)
I need something reasonably simple, oh, perhaps mildly slinky... and *maybe* I could go as a cyclist, on the grounds that I generally don't dress as a cyclist when I'm riding my bike, but I"d rather think of something a little more fun. I could also simply wear my clothes from the El Salvador ladies' co-op... hmmm... okay, I think I know where I'm going but if it woudl be fun to think about, share!

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This is my "costume" from last year.

I had two flats that day and was had a close call with a car trying to right-hook me. I was really annoyed. Here's the result (the faux-boobs are not part of the costume). I'm with the jellow jersey.

(I should add that I was really convinced that the new "guy" I went to the party with was also interested in a relationship with me when he kissed me despite the black stuff on my teeth and my awful appearance. It will be a year in a few days... :) )

These are great :-)

I was also considering a bike related costume, although I was thinking of a mountain biker who had a run in with a cougar or bear or something! Kind of nasty, but funny, too. Great look, Grog!! Loving the teeth!

Oh, I had a Jeep run over my jersey a few times to try to imprint the tire thread pattern, but it didn't work too well. If anyone can pull that one let me know how, I'm interested in perfecting the costume.

Another idea: this is my friend Murray and his girlfriend Jen (aka The Zebra in the picture). He was disguised as a doping cyclist (he's an elite Ironman competitor). Jen is holding the transfusion bag on the picture and he tried to push me some synthetic testosterone...

Awesome! I'm totally gonna steal the cyclist-hit-by-car costume for a party I was invited to! Though I will feel kinda bad because it's not really funny.... but this is Halloween! I may try to find some sort of washable black paint, put it on a newspaper, roll my car over the newspaper and then over my commuter jersey. Then I can rinse off my car's tire with the hose.

K.

Already exists... (I don't know the guy, sorry, if I did, his phone number would be mine alone...)

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Originally Posted by alpinerabbit

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This shirt is awesome!!! :D

Sorry for the semi hijack here. I took my son to the library's fundraiser called the Fairytale Ball this weekend and here's our picture:

i love the pictures and great ideas!

dar you look so cute!!!!

i don't have any real ideas for you besides the ones that have already been done. good luck! and don't forgit to post pics of what you decide to go as!!!

OMG Dar, how cute! Both of you look wonderful. Your son is adorable. :)

Here are some ideas...........


http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-cra...n_ms_costumes/

I think I want a lion suit for this year!!

BUMPing this because the halloween party I'm going to is on Friday evening and I got the whole 'cyclist hit by car' costume ready to go. But now I'm having doubts because, well I live in Philly and lots of the folks there commute by bike and stuff so there will be plenty of cyclists at the party and I'm worried that they might find the costume offensive if they have had or have known people who have had near brushes with accidents or been in accidents.

Being a cyclist, I know being hit by a car is a very scary reality, but this is HALLOWEEN and besides, in a way you could look at it like I am spreading awareness to non-cyclists about how they should share the road, right!?

Am I just being oversensitive/nervous here?

K.

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I don't know. All of my cycling friends tought my costume was hilarious last year, and it got a few stories of car-bike encounter going.

If you have a friend who knows someone who died in a bike accident recently, it's probably not a good idea though.

Kimmyt,

I think you should do it. Halloween costumes are supposed to be SCARY and getting hit by a car qualifies as very scary!

Besides, just when you think you've crossed the line to bad taste, that's when you find out most people really have a sick sense of humor.

My BF wore a costume to my own halloween party a couple years ago that was in such bad taste, I was embarassed to have people see him. It turned out his costume was the hit of the party!

We have a painfully recent fatality in these parts so, no, while I appreciated the humor... I wasn't going to do it. It cuts too close to home, here and now - but it's hard to tell when laughing is *exactly* what you need to do.
I can't find the homemade Jamaican skirt that has to be SOMEWHERE... I have every intention of riding out on my Gazelle, with its skirt guard. I'm going to keep in the Day of the Dead tradition, which - I'm going to check and make sure - I believeis to wear bright, festive clothes... perhaps that cape that belonged to my mother.

I am VERY tempted to dress up for my commute on Tuesday... maybe a short cape (I don't want to get tangled up!)... or wouldn't it be fun to make stripes on a shirt, put antenea (spelling?) on my helmet, and be a bee?

I'm just wondering - would I create a road hazard? I don't want to cause accidents!

It's Hallowe'en so people won't be *totally* confused, but I have to say that when I wore my pig-ears-and-nose helmet cover in traffic, a jeep jumped the curb and another car drove all over the road doing a double take. I decided I'd take the thing *to* the ride and then put it on after that.