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! I Wanna Be Sedated jeans black T-shirt sunglasses shaggy, messy hair = either Joey or Dee Dee of the Ramones Imagine jeans hippie-ish shirt or "I *heart* NY" T-shirt round glasses or sunglasses = John Lennon (as seen at FDPB 1994) Across the Universe jeans hippie-ish/Indian shirt sitar or other Indian artifact = George Harrison of the Beatles I Need You Tonight leather pants unbuttoned shirt long rocker hair = Michael Hutchence of INXS Latter-Day Belushi cheap suit lots of pillows stuffed under shirt lame jokes and pratfalls = Chris Farley Flying Diskman jeans & T-shirt frisbee = "Steady" Ed Headrick, inventor of the Frisbee (could come in all-black, carrying a dark grey frisbee -- say you're Headrick's spirit with his ashes made into a Frisbee) Talking Teddies standard office clothes teddy bear with a cassette tape attached to its front = James Sachs, inventor of Teddy Ruxpin talking teddy-bear toy Toga Toga Toga white sheet draped like a toga = Julius Ceaser (as seen at FDPB 1994 & FDPB 1995) Happy Trails cowboy hat western style shirt jeans = Roy Rogers Star Stuff tweed sport coat with leather elbow patches black turtleneck copy of Contact or Cosmos book = Carl Sagan Interchangeable Beats plain suit (esp. '50s style) fedora hat copy of Naked Lunch or "Howl" or On the Road = William S. Burroghs = Allen Ginsberg = Jack Kerouac Tripped Out tie-dye shirt jeans headband, love beads, acid tabs, etc. = Timothy Leary (as seen at FDPB 1997) = Jerry Garcia (stuff a pillow under the shirt for appropriate girth) Obscure and Very GenX bowling or mechanic's style shirt &/or white T-shirt jeans slicked back hair = Scot Baio's career (thanks to Mark for this idea) The Truth Is Out There black trench coat conservative suit = Fox Mulder from The X-Files (presumed dead several times) All Creatures Great and Small tweed jacket corduroy pants vest oxford shirt stuffed animal of a dog or farm animal = James Herriot (veterinarian and author) Fab Fifties 1950s clothes (suits, tux jackets) = Desi Arnez (as seen at FDPB 2005) = Jack Benny = Vincent Price It's Not Easy green pants green shirt = Hugh Brannum, better known as Mr. Green Jeans Underwater Fun striped long-sleeve shirt jeans snorkel and mask = Jacques Cousteau Top Hat and Tails tailcoat white shirt black pants bowtie top hat cane = Fred Astaire Medieval Miscellany grey turtleneck dark pants white sheet with whole cut in center (to go over the head) and a cross painted on the front belt sword &/or crown = Richard the Lionhearted (as seen at FDPB 1998) = any number of Medieval crusaders, including fictional ones that died in Monty Python and the Holy Grail Rock Me Amadeus dark suit fedora = Falco Blame It on the Rain trendy 80s suit braided black hair = Rob Pilatus, one half of Milli Vanilli Creepy and Cooky any really freaky goth-punk outfit = Rozz Williams, formerly of the band Christian Death When We Are Six short pants preppy shirt Winnie the Pooh bear = Christopher Robin Milne The Stylish Time Lord velvet smoking jacket ruffled shirt tuxedo pants silver white hair = Jon Pertwee as the third Doctor Who Cult of Personality purple robes turban long gray beard = Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Pop Culture prim suit bowtie box/jar of popcorn = Orville Redenbacher Trust No One dark modern suit dark trenchcoat = Deep Throat, X, The Well-Manicured Man, or The Cigarette-Smoking Man (add a pack of cigarettes) all from The X-Files Versatile as All Hell black suit white shirt skinny black tie = John Belushi (as seen at FDPB 1992) = Buddy Holly (as seen at FDPB 1995) = Ritchie Valens (as seen at FDPB 1995) = any of the Reservoir Dogs characters who die (as seen at FDPB 1994) = and many more