Need a last-minute costume!!!

Does anyone have any witty, inventive, or just plain cooky costume ideas I can throw together relatively easily?  I work 3 jobs right now and haven't been able to make the time in the last 2 weeks to visit a costume store due to my 75 hour work weeks.  

The party is an adult party and will start tomorrow night at 9 pm CST.  I have dinner plans tonight and work 7-3 tomorrow.  As you can see, this leaves me in a bind.  I really do enjoy getting dressed up and I don't usually procrastinate ...time just got away from me.

To give an example of what I'm looking for...A couple of years ago my friend had a very innovative costume and I loved the play on words.  He took a lamp shade and fashioned a way to keep it on his head all night.  He took a pair of suspenders and attached them to a halfmoon which he covered with a table cloth, an alarm clock, a pack of ciggy's, asprin, and an empty glass.  He adhered everything to the table so it wouldn't move.  We all wondered what he was...he was a "One Night Stand".  Pretty clever huh?  And it took him 30 minutes to throw together!!!

Any help would be appreciated.  I'm not a shy person, so bring on the crazy suggestions!  Thanks.

Original Post by sngbrdchls77:

Does anyone have any witty, inventive, or just plain cooky costume ideas I can throw together relatively easily?  I work 3 jobs right now and haven't been able to make the time in the last 2 weeks to visit a costume store due to my 75 hour work weeks.  

The party is an adult party and will start tomorrow night at 9 pm CST.  I have dinner plans tonight and work 7-3 tomorrow.  As you can see, this leaves me in a bind.  I really do enjoy getting dressed up and I don't usually procrastinate ...time just got away from me.

To give an example of what I'm looking for...A couple of years ago my friend had a very innovative costume and I loved the play on words.  He took a lamp shade and fashioned a way to keep it on his head all night.  He took a pair of suspenders and attached them to a halfmoon which he covered with a table cloth, an alarm clock, a pack of ciggy's, asprin, and an empty glass.  He adhered everything to the table so it wouldn't move.  We all wondered what he was...he was a "One Night Stand".  Pretty clever huh?  And it took him 30 minutes to throw together!!!

Any help would be appreciated.  I'm not a shy person, so bring on the crazy suggestions!  Thanks.

Although stereotyped as "common," a paper bag over the head works wonders.

I've seen the One Night Stand done well...

There are lots of play on words costumes:
  Shooting star - black clothes, make a couple stars out of cardboard covered with tinfoil to pin to your chest, and a water gun.

  Partly cloudy, chance of showers - same idea, but blue clothes, with cotton balls.

Or things like half man/half woman - get thrift store cloths that you can cut in half and pin together - a suit and a dress (just wear the pants hole, and have the skirt cut so it covers one leg, cut a wig in half, and add stubble to the male half.

One of my favorite costumes I've seen - gum on the bottom of a shoe - dress all in pink, including a hat, and then attach a flip flop to the hat.

Original Post by dnrothx:

Although stereotyped as "common," a paper bag over the head works wonders.

 

  dnrothx - What are you trying to say?  Lol!  Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm looking for a little more than that, and the last thing I want to do is cover up my pretty face!!!  Hope that doesn't sound conceited, but I gotta work what I got!!!

Have you seen/read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?

Bathrobe + Towel = Costume

Two that I've seen and thought were very clever:

White Trash: Dress in all white and pin various pieces of "trash" to your clothing (cereal boxes, granola bar wrappers etc.)

Little White Lie: Dress in all white and pin various sayings to your clothing such as "that dress looks great on you" "I'm fine" "I coun't make it because I was sick" etc. You can make this one pretty creative and cute.

Brown Noser:  I did this for work one year.. just colored a circle of brown on the tip of my nose.

http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos. aspx?gid=231&GT1=45002

"MSN's best recycled halloween costumes" Pictures are family friendly. Well, there's one guy in a pumpkin, but his essentials are covered.

I like photo #14 out of 17. There are links for HOW TO directions below the photo.

A friend of mine wore a slip over some tights.  She used glitter paint and other things to write on the slip.  She wrote "ego" and "psychoanalysis" and some other stuff.

It was a Freudian Slip

Still cracks me up!

Dress in all white, grab a pair of angel wings and halo, muss up your hair, put a few leaves in it, rub some "dirt" (or makeup) on your face - you'll be a fallen angel!

wear whatever shirt you want that you don't mind messing up a little, glue/tape (whichever works better) cereal boxes to it with little bits of red marker to look like blood and poke holes in there too, i saw someone do this one year, he was a serial killer...hahah, i loved it.

Original Post by mamarose:

A friend of mine wore a slip over some tights.  She used glitter paint and other things to write on the slip.  She wrote "ego" and "psychoanalysis" and some other stuff.

It was a Freudian Slip

Still cracks me up!

 ha, i love this idea...i might even try that this year if my current costume idea doesn't work out (vampire, i have a dress i think might work, which will make the idea cheaper, but if it doesn't work, i'll look for a cheap slip that isn't too revealing)

Oh, I have one.  Jogging outfit with a big clock drawn on the front...

Running out of time!

A scarecrow is easy. Wear a plaid shirt, overalls, straw hat. Then stuff raffia (I think that's what it's called) in the sleeves of your shirt and around your waist. The only problem I had was leaving a trail of raffia wherever I went.

my friend was global warming last year..

tons of blankets draped over him, a hat made out of a map of the world and smoking cigars... pretty funny

You could be sara palin... that wouldn't be too hard to pull off.. suit, glasses, signiture hair, american flag, hockey stick.. haha

I once heard of someone taking an old pair of blue jeans and drawing DNA double helixes on each legs, then pinning a few dozen teabags to an old t-shirt, and then when asked what their costume is, saying "oh, nothing special. Just a "tea-shirt and a pair of genes"

har di har. (Actually, I'm enough of a geek to appreciate that sort of thing).

I don't know if you're from the UK or the London area but 'Shepherds Bush' always went down well..... You can make it so hilarious and non offensive