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male costumes - female costumes - unisex costumes - group costumes
bay area costume shopping
easy recipes for costumes you can create from thrift stores, costume shops, or your own closet!
A Three-Hour Tour
- one sailor cap, red long-sleeve shirt, white pants
- one captain's hat, blue shirt with pillow stuffed under, white pants
- one navy blazer, khaki pants, white shirt, ascot, monacle
- one 1960s fancy cocktail dress
= Gilligan, the Skipper, the Millionare & His Wife from Gilligan's Island
Marxism Is Fun
- one black tux, glasses with funny nose and mustache, and cigar
- one curly wig, long coat, and horn
- one plain suit and felt cap
- one stylish suit
= the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo)
Three's Company
- three black suits
- one bald cap
- one curly wig
- one bowl-cut wig
= the Three Stooges (Larry, Curly, and Moe)
Start Spreadin' the News
- tuxedos
- cigarettes
- martinis
= The Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.)
(Frank and Dean as seen at FDPB
1998)
Like, Totally Awesome
- three miniskirts
- three tight tops
- three 1980s-style jackets
- bright makeup & big hair
= the three Heathers who got killed in Heathers
Witchy Menage a Trois
- smart 1960s dress & wiggle your nose
- plain 1960s suit & exasperated expression (two of each)
= Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, Dick York as Darren #1, and Dick
Sargent as #2, all as in Bewitched
Boogie Woogie Bugle Gals
- 1940s suits and hats
= two out of the three Andrews Sisters (Laverne & Maxene)
I Wanna Be Sedated
- two pair jeans
- two black T-shirt
- two pair sunglasses
- shaggy, messy hair
= Joey and Dee Dee of the Ramones
Across the Universe
- two pair jeans
- two hippie-ish shirts
- one pair round glasses or sunglasses
- one sitar or other Indian artifact
= John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles
Like, Totally Bogus, Dude
- two pair baggy shorts
- two oversize t-shirts
- two big flannel shirts
- two pair tennis shoes/vans/hightops
= Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (they die
and come back)
No, You're Dead
- one dark suit
- one pale bathrobe and nightgown
= Friedrich Nietzsche and God
(as seen at FDPB
1998)
Hogwarts' Honeys
- modern British clothes
- graduation robes
- wizard wands
= James and Lily Potter, Harry Potter's parents (as seen at FDPB
2002)
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
- Medieval or Renaissance men's outfit, knife wounds
- Medieval or Renaissance women's outfit, knife wounds
= Romeo and Juliet at the end of the play
Altogether Oooky
- smoking jacket, black pants and shirt, fez
- long black dress, long black wig
= Raul Julia as Gomez from The Addams Family movies and Carolyn
Jones as Morticia on The Addams Family TV show
The All-American Couple
- one dark suit
- one fluffy fifties dress and pearls
= Ozzie and Harriet Nelson
Love, French Existentialist Style
- 1950s or 60s clothes, esp. in black
- copy of No Exit and The Second Sex
= Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Bouvier
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