Tried to make it bit by bit on my own

[venta]

Some time ago, on a pub crawl, my dance team happened on a bunch of people in fancy dress in north Oxford. They were dressed as superheroes and were an impressive bunch, both in outfits and in variety. rapperaddict and I spent a happy quarter of an hour covertly spotting the various more obscure charaters. There was an impressively muscled Robin, a curvy Silk

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[sushidog]

I'm with you on this! My favourite costume of recent years was for a Dark Side of Disney Halloween party; I went as Ursula from the Little mermaid, wearing a black strapless ballgown (model's own), a large shell strung on a ribbon (model's own), and four pairs of black tights stuffed with newspaper (model's own), some of which were strung to my arms, so they moved when I did. I also carried a plastic lobster (model's own). The only thing I bought was hairspray.

[venta]

Wow, that sounds rather cool as a costume!

[sushidog]

It was a lot of fun, and I do love Ursula!

[bateleur]

£1.69-worth of gold cardboard

Didn't see the decimal point at first and was briefly very confused!

My useless superpower is that I always turn up to costume parties dressed in the same costume as someone else, no matter how obscure. "Come as a Superhero"... I went for Hong Kong Phooey. But no, dr_bob (I think?) had gone for the same thing. On another occasion "Come as a Film" saw with with forty fun size packets of Maltesers stapled to me. But again, I was somehow not the only one. (In fact IIRC that was dr_bob again? Perhaps my superpower is narrower than I thought...)

[venta]

The Malteasers are defeating my puny film knowledge. I want it to be the Maltese Falcon, but can't quite work out why 40.

[bateleur]

Correct!

40 for no better reason than it was the number required to make two wings. :-)

[venta]

Ah right, that makes sense now ;)

[deborahw37]

My husband once went to a fancy dress party dressed as the parking meter/ gas stove/ robot from Wallace and Grommit' s A Grand Day Out He made it from a large cardboard box and it included a drawer with the parking ticket writing book and pen and the hammer! I went as Wendy from the wool shop..in a skirt and twinset and pearls ( all charity shop) with " hair" made out of a plastic pudding basin painted in shiny gloss paint.

We won :)

[venta]

That sounds truly impressive!

[lathany]

But my cardboard headband was plenty for the party hostess - dressed as BirdLady (Is it a bird...? Yes, yes it is...) - to identify me.

And, yes, I can see that it does!

[ceb]

I remember going to a party as a flock of bats for ... some reason lost to history.

[venta]

I'm intrigued. How did you do that?

[ceb]

Bat-shaped cookie cutter, draw round it on a sheet of black cardboard repeatedly (think I might have had to buy that), cut out and safety-pin the results to a non-black T-shirt.