Halloween costume HELP!
Internets, tell me what I should be for Halloween! I have been searching for ideas but have not settled on anything awesome.
Doha has a (small, bare-bones) Halloween store, so I am more limited by lack of imagination than by access to stuff. However, in case it is helpful, costume-y things I have on hand include a wavy black wig, a straight blonde wig, a witch's broom, a sparkly top hat, a straw cowboy hat (and sheriff's badge and handcuffs, but those are all from a work event and thus passe), a witch's hat if I didn't lose it, and a variety of goth-y makeup. In the potentially useful clothes department I have a black velvet dress that is sadly not as vampyric as I hoped, a psychedelic 60s dress from my birthday party last year, a couple jelabiya (jelabiyaan??), an abaya, and a Palestinian keffiyeh.
It would be easy to pick up a costume-in-a-bag thing, but I want to be witty and interesting and cool! Sigh. Normally I like geeky-in-joke-type costumes (cf. my failed grand ambition to be Marzipan a couple years ago) but it's not a hugely computer geeky crowd.
(Dohaites: No fair peeking at comments if you're going to the same party as me.)
Someone please have a brilliant idea for me!!!
EDIT: I found something in my closet that suggested an idea -- a not very creative idea, but one that I have almost everything on hand to pull off reasonably well. I shall save these suggestions for next year. (It also filled me with the desire to host a Theoretical Costume Party, at which guests show up as their favorite theorem or axiom.)
Doha has a (small, bare-bones) Halloween store, so I am more limited by lack of imagination than by access to stuff. However, in case it is helpful, costume-y things I have on hand include a wavy black wig, a straight blonde wig, a witch's broom, a sparkly top hat, a straw cowboy hat (and sheriff's badge and handcuffs, but those are all from a work event and thus passe), a witch's hat if I didn't lose it, and a variety of goth-y makeup. In the potentially useful clothes department I have a black velvet dress that is sadly not as vampyric as I hoped, a psychedelic 60s dress from my birthday party last year, a couple jelabiya (jelabiyaan??), an abaya, and a Palestinian keffiyeh.
It would be easy to pick up a costume-in-a-bag thing, but I want to be witty and interesting and cool! Sigh. Normally I like geeky-in-joke-type costumes (cf. my failed grand ambition to be Marzipan a couple years ago) but it's not a hugely computer geeky crowd.
(Dohaites: No fair peeking at comments if you're going to the same party as me.)
Someone please have a brilliant idea for me!!!
EDIT: I found something in my closet that suggested an idea -- a not very creative idea, but one that I have almost everything on hand to pull off reasonably well. I shall save these suggestions for next year. (It also filled me with the desire to host a Theoretical Costume Party, at which guests show up as their favorite theorem or axiom.)