please give me ideas for a costume party...both silly and serious suggestions welcome

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OK. i'm going to a costume/fancy dress party on saturday. the theme is 'rebels and revolutionaries'. i'm figuring that there's not many girls (or boys that i look like) that are recolutionarities (hmm, could shave my head and be joan of arc?), probably in the 'rebels' camp. any ideas?

bonus points for a costume that is easy enough to change so i can go to a different (non-themed) birthday party at a london club after.

yes, please help.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

http://members.aol.com/Tenderware3/rebel.jpg

google images is *not* helpful

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

you could go as a suffragette

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Go as Thatcher. Get a big handbag and fuck everything in sight.

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

FREEDOM FOR SYMBONIA!!!!
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/m2/jun2005/7/6/0007B295-EA61-129E-997C80BFB6FA0000.jpg

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/31/Princess_leia02.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

valerie solanis

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

someone is already going as princess leia. and madonna. and trinity from the matrix. i thought about patty hearst, but isn't she either hard to recognize (as in, if i wear a beret and machine gun, is that enough?) or the only girl revolutionary?

not criticizing...just more information.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

tank girl

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pixhost.com/pixv/volutes/dominatrix.jpg

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Go as mao tse tung.

Or as Maria from the sound of music. Either in her nun or nanny days. Either costume would look great at the birthday party afterwards.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

i thought about tank girl, but does everyone know who she is? i'd love to walk around saying 'pa-pa-pa-pow!' all night

um, toby is as helpful as google images

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

You could go as that woman from Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi.

― I gave a definition of satire because motherfuckers are stupid (papa november), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

http://home.att.net/~enfield/images/fsm_joan_baez.jpg

YEAH!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Guitar optional.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

what about going as mandy rice-davies?

― estela (estela), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

ti-grace atkinson

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

This sounds like fun! But I love dressing up.
Bonnie (and Clyde)
Juliette Lewis's character from Natural Born Killers
Daryll Hannah's character in Bladerunner

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 24 November 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Thelma or Louise

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 24 November 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

any character from Kill Bill...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 24 November 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

Tristan Tzara.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 24 November 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

a black sheep

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 24 November 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

someone who's been guillotined. or stoned to death. or not eating cake.
bra burner.
omg, michael moore.

(okay, I may have to make this the theme for my birthday party in January! And then provide people with this list just in case...)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 24 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Dorothy Gale. She took out the Witch in a tactical water strike, and then toppled the Wizard in a bloodless coup.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

AVRIL.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 24 November 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

You could go as a punk. Or you could stencil lyrics from David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel" all over a white t-shirt, or you could go in a torn dress with big red arrows pointing to the tear.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Rebel Rebel. Look, I've torn my dress!"
Or you could go as the dog from Champion the Wonder Horse.
Or you could wear all brown and say you thought it was Revels and Revolutionaries.

I am a big help.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

those guys that sailed on ships and boarded other ships and plundered them. what were they called...

― what's my line?, Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Go as the woman in the middle of this:

http://bergson.paris.iufm.fr/coulisses/img_coulisses/LIBERTE.JPG

You might make a lot of new friends.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

This might limit your mingling at the first party, but it's easy to change out of:

http://webed.vw.cc.va.us/vwbaile/Media/marat.jpg

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gazette.de/Archiv/Gazette-August2001/Phoolan.jpg
Phoolan Devi

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

go as this guy - piss off the libertarians!

ihttp://utopia.utexas.edu/project/portraits/lincoln.jpg

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 24 November 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

hmm...the problem with so many of these characters is that they don't have an iconic image that's easy to recognize. don't know why i'm having such a hard time with this!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

How about this fella? Pretty iconic, I'd say

http://www.theholidayspot.com/guy_fawkes_day/images/guyfawkes_img.gif

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theholidayspot.com/guy_fawkes_day/images/guyfawkes_img.gif

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

There, that's better.

And you can wear the false beard out later, and be the envy of all.

maybe even the hat.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.trovadores.org/salvaje/images/salvaje.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps some combination of the two.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it a bit literal to think you have to go as a gun-toting Cuban rebel girl, Colette? What about a top hat and tails androgynous-but-sexy Marlene Dietrich? Toby can go as Jo von Sternberg. If costume is chosen, must post photo.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I need ideas too. Two fancy dress parties coming up
The first theme is coca cola(?!) so no idea for that, and the second is hollywood so easier but i still cant think of anything original. Any suggestions?

― choufleu, Thursday, 24 November 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

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