Directors may not run around in berets and puffy pants much these days, but if you were going to dress up as a modern-day director that would probably just mean jeans and a T-shirt, and that’s not much of a costume.
You will need:
Tall black boots
Puffy pants
A clapboard
A megaphone (a rolled-up piece of black construction paper works great)
A beret
A toy video camera or one cut out of cardboard
Do you even need to ask who our preferred Willy Wonka is? Gene Wilder, duh.
You will need:
A brown top hat
A gold-topped cane (real gold, of course)
A ruffled dress shirt or vest
A purple velvet coat
Brown dress shoes
For an added touch, carry some candy with you (for the sake of people who don’t “get it” and really need to be hit over the head).
When we got our Nintendo Entertainment Systems (we’re talking about these old-school babies) which included Super Mario Bros. 3, that was it. We were hooked. In honour of Videogame Week here at Bunchland, we give you…Mario (or Luigi).
You will need:
A fake handlebar mustache
Overalls (the bluer the better)
A red shirt
A Mario hat or red baseball cap
White gloves
(You can be Luigi by sporting a green shirt and hat instead of red!)
We totally get that most farmers don’t dress like this anymore. But the old-timey, totally stereotypical image of a farmer just happens to be so darn loveable.
You will need:
Overalls
A plaid shirt
A straw hat
A piece of straw to chew on
A stuffed barnyard animal
Some kid-friendly (read: plastic) farming tools (don’t make the same mistake we did by Googling “fake hoe”)
We spent an unreasonable amount of time on today’s Costume Recipe, because we wanted to honour its subject: the beloved Pee-Wee Herman. We’ve previously posted about how much he means to us. And what better way to show it than dressing up as him this Halloween?
You will need:
A red bow tie
A grey suit (check the racks at your local thrift shop, make sure it’s at least one size too small)
White loafers and white socks (or rock the white platform shoes he wore in the infamous “Tequila” scene in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure)
A bit of red lipstick and pink blush
A dollop of gel to slick your hair back
A red bike (though good luck finding one as awesome as Pee-Wee’s)
Image via Hankblog.
