So, I still don't have a Halloween costume.

[ContraBass Black]

I have two ideas, but little money and no time.

On, which I consider a backup, is to acquire a pair of shades, a black tie, a tie clip, and an ear-piece, and become an Agent of the System. (I don't have the look, but apparently I have the manner. Several people have suggested that I conclude every sentence with "Mr. Anderson.")

Second idea, which I'm much more fond of, is to fashion an impressive pair of wings and become an angel. I would like the wings to be black, dark gray, or silver, and be fastenable without putting holes through a shirt, with a formidable span. However, I don't know what to use.


Suggestions?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Aluminum foil

glued to cardboard. Got suspenders? Attach the wings to them.

[wildhorses]

6. I took a bottle of chianti and a can of

fava(sp) beans ...where is the liver?

[fishwax]

2. Halloween creativity is so beyond me

I wish I were better at it, but I'm not. :shrug:

I think the aluminum foil is a good idea. A few other relatively cheap but still good ideas I've seen are
* Cochise from the Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video (cheap suit at salvation army story plus felt mustache and dark shades)
* Harry Carey as done by Will Ferrell on SNL

Of course, you can always opt for Adam Sandler's suggestions from SNL for kids who don't have much money for Halloween costumes ("hey, look at me, I'm crazy plant-arm man ... I'm just like a regular man, but I've got a plant for an arm" etc.)

[AmyDeLune]

3. Be careful on how big you make them,

having worn "medium" sized faery wings, I can't stress enough how easy it is to poke someone in the eye with a wing.

Here is a site with links to a bunch of folks who have made various and sundry types of wings--

http://www.fursuit.org/faq/17wings.htm

Good Luck!

edited to add link

[liontamer]

4. I just went as an intelligent shade of blue

it was fun and it was easy, but it helps if your friends are kind of dorky

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. The simplest costume I ever heard of

for men was nothing but a pair of roller skates.

Tell everybody you're a pull toy.

[Orsino]

7. Combine the two.

Be Oberon and Titania's Secret Service protection.

[jmm]

8. I promised a friend at work that if he'd go as

Lindy England I'd be an Abu Ghraib prisoner but I have a feeling he's gonna chicken out.

[AtomicKitten]

9. go as a zombie

easy to do. wear messed up clothes you can rip, rub dirt on your face and arms (and any other exposed body part, borrow someone's eye bag concealer (white) and use as pancake makeup, using a black eye liner type product smeared around eyes to give that dead effect, rat your hair all up so it looks particularly disheveled, hair spray if you can, and stick leaves and sticks in it.

[ContraBass Black]

10. Well, I made the wings.

They were fun, but not terribly impressive.