Help! Quick Costume Ideas!

[joreth]

I need help! I'm going to a party whose theme is Literary Legends. The invite explicitly includes books, comics, and websites. I have 2 days to put together a costume and I don't know what to wear! The best thing for me is to make something out of what I already own, since I'm waiting on paychecks and I don't have time to construct something from scratch. Here's what I have:

• a chinese dress,
  
• a non-specifically persian-esque dress,
  
• a long silver dress,
  
• a black lace (see-through) short dress,
  
• a sparkly red swing dress,
  
• a sparkly red & black latin style dress,
  
• a sparkly purple '70s neo-roman dress,
  
• business-pinstripe skirt,
  
• business-grey pleated skirt,
  
• a Korean kimono/robe,
  
• a magician-esque green leotard & black tux jacket,
  
• my Laurie Jupiter,
  
• my poodle skirt,
  
• my None (it's a pun - a nun costume with a scarlet A instead of a cross rosary, and The God Delusion instead of a bible, created based on the "none" category of religious affiliation in demographic questionnaires),
  
• a waitress/nurse dress,
  
• a labcoat,
  
• my toga
  

Any of that remind you of anything in books, comics, or webpages? Laurie Jupiter is the only thing that is directly related to something in writing, but it's not the graphic novel version, & I wore it last year. Any suggestions?

Comments

[emanix.livejournal.com]

Toga: sappho, famous female (okay, lesbian) poet

Erm... Okay, that's the first thing that springs to mind. I'll let you know if I get any others!

Persian-esque

[polyamorypractically (from livejournal.com)]

Sheherazade (sp?) the storyteller from 1,001 Arabian Nights

If the Korean kimono is similar enough to a Japanese kimono might be able to pull off Murasaki.

If you can modify the None outfit to resemble the black and white clothes the puritans went in for you could pull of Hester from the Scarlet Letter (had to wear a red 'A' on her chest for committing adultery).

My webcomic reading is heavy in the D&D parodies - not very helpful at the moment.

Pinstripe skirt might work for Lois Lane

And that wipes me of ideas. Good luck.

Re: Persian-esque

[joreth]

Those are quite a few ideas, thanks! The None outfit is way too modern-sexy for a puritan outfit, but I did consider Hester :-) Being poly, I think it's rather appropriate!

The Korean kimono is really not much more than a silk robe. It was bought for me in Korea by a guy I was seeing who was stationed there for a time, so it's at least a real Korean robe, but more like something you'd slip into after sex to answer the door and not really historically accurate.

Your Scheherazade & Lois Lane ideas are currently at the top, along with the Dread Pirate Roberts, and War & Peace!