In today’s Reader Mail:
Dear Bunnyshop,
I really liked your story last week about all the slutty nurse Halloween costumes, and how it can be so annoying sometimes. I was wondering: Will you ask everyone to name the best costume they ever saw? Will you answer it, too? I bet someone might have some really good ideas. Halloween’s just around the corner!
Love,
T.
The funniest costume we’ve ever seen was our ex-roommate, who is an ex-football player African-American, wearing a tennis skirt and carrying a racquet and calling himself Serena Williams. Actually, it was pretty mean, and we like Serena. But it was funny seeing our friend (who’s a guy, if that’s not already clear) in a skirt. Ha! We’re easily amused, clearly.
Anyhoo: We’d love to hear from everyone their best Halloween costume sighting ever. Ideas, please!
Above: the Old Navy dog costume, $7.25
Either giant versions of Master Shake and the french fries guy from Aqua Teen Hunger Force or the cast of the Princess Bride.
The Man From Glad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYkm7ts62VM
Someone described a “one night stand/one nightstand” costume to me: You wear the top of a cardboard box around your waist with a table cloth over it. (holes cut in the center of both, obviously). Then you glue condoms, lube, empty plastic wine glasses, underwear, etc…to the top. Finally you wear a lampshade on your head! (So I guess it could still be construed as a “slutty costume” but I think its funny)
Also, I had a friend who just dressed up as prettily as possible in a little black dress and heels and when people asked what she was, she stuck out her hand and said “single!”
I love that dog outfit.
at the nyc parade a few years ago, two men were dressed as the ambiguously gay duo from the snl cartoon. people were lining up to take pictures with them.
this may not be the best costume *ever*, but last year 6 friends and i dressed up as the 7 deadly sins – it was pretty great.
I was Chyna (wwf) and my friend was Sable, we had some pretty sick costumes. it was hilarious.
This isn’t the best idea ever, but it is good if you are lazy or a bit of an intellectual snob: I have a friend who always goes as a Freudian Slip– she takes a pretty slip/nightgown and covers it with words like ego, id, oral fixation, etc.
Oh, for some reason the Freudian slip (clever!) reminds me I once went as Gertrude Stein. Wore a man’s suit with 3 roses pinned to one of the lapels. Maybe a little too subtle, as nobody knew who I was.
i saw this one girl who made her own “girls gone wild” costume.. a regular t-shirt lifted over a flesh colored spaghetti top with a huge foam posterboard cutout of “CENSORED” with white on black lettering and a GGW trucker hat.
i helped my friend with her costume this year — she’s going as an American Apparel employee. super-fun.
i’m subverting the whole “slutty” theme into a mod theme (a la carnaby street, jean shrimpton, etc) this year, so i’m going as a mod nurse — kinda looks more WWII, florence nightingale-ish.
Farley’s coffee house in San Francisco, has their annual pet custome. Search it up in flickr. just adorable