Let's play "Spot the Inappropriate Costume"

[onehandle]

We got this in the mail yesterday. Can you spot the costume? Can ya?

[mmonk]

1. Is that real?

[onehandle]

4. Yes it is. I have the flyer right here.

This "Party City" ad came in our mail here in Atlanta.

[mmonk]

5. We have

a Party City in Raleigh. I'm going to check the ads (alot stuffed in the paper today). If it's here too, I'm going to raise a stink.

[mmonk]

8. I see only six costume prices

[onehandle]

12. There are nine costumes, but only four are priced. nt

[JHB]

15. Betcha the others are more expensive...

...but the store is advertising the price of the cheaper ones to pull people in.

(the prisoner jumpsuit is about $30 elsewhere)

[mmonk]

17. My bad, I was viewing

the jagged color spheres without looking in them.

[movie_girl99]

no f'in way

the infamous orange jumpsiut. Why dont they have a fake head to drag along behind it. Is that ad for Party City?

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Get a 3 of your friends to dress up as masked "insurgents" carrying

machetes and you're all set!

[displacedtexan]

3. White Plastic Chair Not Included

Severed Head Not Included!

Black Hood & Battery Powered Genital Electrodes Not Included!

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. You got me

thank god my mouth wasn't full.

[AmerDem]

6. photoshop

come on

[onehandle]

10. It's real. I have it right here.

Somebody else here must have gotten it too.

[AmerDem]

13. unreal

crazy stuff, it does look photoshopped though. The way the kid is thrown in there, he is much larger but then again i guess this is how they put it together.

Someones head should roll for this.

[onehandle]

16. The flyer's cover is a composite of images.

They just combined several stock images of costumes. But this is how they mailed it out. So you're right, it does look photoshopped.

[JHB]

19. It looks photoshopped because it is...

...not as fakery, it's advertising. The kids modeling the costumes would have been all photographed separately, then edited together for the "group shot" the store wanted. (It lets the store pick which costumes it will show, and avoids any stray shadows an actual group shot might cause.)

[AmerDem]

21. got it

I've seen those advertisments before but can't say as I much cared about the way they were put together...until now.

[JHB]

11. Not at all

Buy it on the web for thirty bucks. Shackes and ball & chain extra:

http://halloweencostumeboutique.com/halloween_costumes_details/3034b.htm

[onehandle]

14. Thanks. Party City's site doesn't have a store. nt

[omshanti]

18. I got it too. It's real

It came with all the flyers and coupons and stuff in the Sunday paper I think.

[onehandle]

20. Thanks! nt

[AmerDem]

22. it's tasteless

we should contact the nitwits who put it together.

[asthmaticeog]

27. Yes, the hacks who design cheap circulars

use Photoshop. Industry standard.

[LizW]

9. Does it come with poncho and hood?

For those chilly Halloween evenings?

[Carson]

23. That costume, of course, has been around for years.

My ex wore a similiar one to a Halloween party in 1995.

However, in light of recent events, I suppose it would have been prudent to not have it available this year.

Then again, it would be only in bad taste (understatement) if one wore it with the intent of satirizing the hostage victims.

[onehandle]

25. Having it available is one thing.

I wouldn't be concerned with that.

But having it front and center on the cover of a flyer?

Bad idea.

[MatrixEscape]

24. I call that ...

Perparation for the future! The prison industry is a growth item and they have to keep those beds filled.

Does it include a phoney baloney sandwich?

[Skittles]

26. it wouldn't be the first time Party City has f***ed up

look at the gem of a flyer I received in North Texas some time ago; I about sh** bricks:

http://www.nbc5i.com/holidays/2699927/detail.html

[johnfunk]

28. Party City? More like Republican Party City...

The orange jumpsuit is a Cheney-worthy f%$#-up if there ever was one...

[TahitiNut]

29. Is it "Beheading Hostage" or "Suicide Insurgent"?

It seems to me the fellow dressed in black with explosives strapped to his chest might attract some startled glances.

[BiggJawn]

30. A "Pumpkin Suit"...How STOOPID....

Reminds me of when I worked in the basement of the C-C Building, right around the corner from Drug Court and down the hall from Wife Beater's court....

Some dumb-ass came down one day dressed in an orange jumpsuit. It didn't say "MCJ" or "JAIL" on it, but at a glance, it got a few deputy's heart rates up when they saw him wandering around loose....

So you get this, and 2 buds with toy scimitars and tea-towels wrapped around their faces......

Stoopid....

[elvisbear]

31. Just get a * mask to wear with the orange jumpsuit.

You would then be speaking the truth.


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