Help! Need An 80's Halloween Costume Idea

[dirtyduck]

help me come up with something funny (female)... maybe a political slant??

[Skittles]

1. if you weigh 98 pounds, don a big head and a designer dress

Presto! Nancy Reagan.

[dirtyduck]

4. i wish

unfortunately, 98 lbs. happened sometime in high school

[Lavender Brown]

It's an 80s themed Halloween party? Cool

Murphy Brown? or Barbara Bush (ugly suit with pearls and big hair)

[waldnorm]

2. Jeanne Kirkpatrick

and have a date be dressed as Bill the Cat from "Bloom County!" :)

[The Great Escape]

3. Tammy Faye Baker

[dirtyduck]

5. tammy faye... my favorite so far

[Lavender Brown]

6. Yes! the mascara will be a fun touch

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Madonna, the Early Years. You can make your costume from anything

in the Salvation Army clothes stores or consignment shops.

Second suggestion: in the same places to shop, you can find 80's dresses with the big shoulders and sequins in the style of Dynasty.

[Tikki]

20. Or Nina Hagen....

and then if anyone recognizes who you are dressed up as you can give them all your candy....

[Atlas Mugged]

23. Or Lene Lovich.

Same league, sorta', as Nina Hagen.

[Tikki]

28. Wow, I was actually going to say Lene...

Lovich, first...but couldn't find a grand picture of her, quickly.

Or how about... Grace Jones....

[blm]

32. Come on ladies, it was Pat Benatar who defined the 80s.

Madonna was a creature for ALL decades. Benatar was ALL 80s.

[bucknaked]

8. Stirrup pants, 10-inch belt and a top with huge lineman shoulder pads...

Today, I have no clue how I ever found woman attractive during the 80's. Thank God for the need of procreation.

[CAcyclist]

11. Looking back at what I used to wear!

I thought I looked so cool in those britches - the pirate pants that ended right below the knee, although I did rip out the shoulder pads in all the shirts.

I do still miss my beret, though.

[BoX o BooX]

9. Wrap yourself in pink Saran Wrap.

Tell people you're one of Christo's art events.

[Atlas Mugged]

30. That's a good one, really.

Having said that, I love Christo. The documentary on 'Running Fence' is spellbinding. All of these rednecks volunteered without knowing what they were getting into, and thought he was some kind of nut. When it was completed, the volunteers were in tears over the event. A wonderful thing to watch.

[CAcyclist]

10. I used too have a t-shirt that said

Ronnie Say RELAX we start bombing in five minutes

[dirtyduck]

13. wonder if i could find one on ebay...

[CAcyclist]

15. I actually still have mine - you might be able to

If you can't, you could make your own - 3 lines, first line Ronnie Say in small print, second line RELAX in really really large print covering most of the t-sirt and last line we start bombing in 5 minutes small print

[flamingyouth]

17. I used to have one of those too!

:7

[CAcyclist]

31. Good ole Berkeley

Where I got that shirt.
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I also got my favorite book that day, Reagan's Reign of Error. Oh my god, sooo funny.

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. Max Headroom n/t

[dirtyduck]

14. just had a thought

george and laura in the 80's (if we could stand it)... george would be all coked out

[arwalden]

16. Flock Of Seagulls

No... not those seagulls...


THESE Seagulls...

[Atlas Mugged]

21. Damn - you beat me to it....

That was the very FIRST thing that came to my mind!

[Maddy McCall]

18. Elvira was REALLY popular in the 80s. I dressed up like her one...

Halloween, and won the costume contest at the bar here. I think it was the plunging neckline more than that I looked like Elvira, though. ;-)

[Maddy McCall]

19. Anita Bryant, and you can hand out orange juice.

:shrug:

[Atlas Mugged]

22. Political? Only Nancy Reagan will do, really.

Provided your already sufficiently anorexic.

[Atlas Mugged]

24. Wendy O. Williams!!!

Even better - a DEAD Wendy O. Williams!!! She killed herself in 1998. Just two pieces of strategically placed electricians tape for the breasts. Or whipped cream. She was REAL low budget on her breasts - it's the Rhino headress that would be a bitch to find.

[Atlas Mugged]

25. A 'Teenage Enema Nurse (In Bondage)'

Yes, there was such a thing. Google it.

Or Buffy from 'Family Affair', the day after they found her in a gutter, OD'd on something like 20 different drugs.

[GingerSnaps]

26. Boy George

:shrug:

[ava27]

27. a bag lady

and say Bushie kicked you out of your house and took everything you have.

[Cush]

29. Zsa Zsa Gabor......have someone else be a cop