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Help, I need to dress up as a book title

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Schulte · 18/09/2021 20:11

Ok don’t laugh… I am going to a party and guests are required to dress up as a book title. I have absolutely no idea what to wear. Help???

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ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 18/09/2021 21:09

Probably not out there enough but you could go as Bridget Jones's Diary - see through top, short skirt, fag, big diary.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 18/09/2021 21:10

The woman in white by Wilkie Collins?

Dead easy, just wear white.

The woman in black by Susan Hill?

Dead easy, just wear black.

ReeseWitherfork · 18/09/2021 21:10

Are there any book titles with walrus in them? hmm I just liked the look of the walrus mask…

Can your walrus become a whale somehow? Moby Dick.

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 18/09/2021 21:11

Ugo and Oti maybe?

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 18/09/2021 21:11

Wrong thread!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 18/09/2021 21:13

Walrus and the Carpenter (not a book but a poem)
Greedy sods ate all the oysters Sad

You could wear the walrus head and carpenter clothes , saw, measuring tape , pencil behind your ear .

Love the Clockwork Orange outfit idea !

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 18/09/2021 21:13

To answer your question get an Alice style dress, sorted !

ChilliChaos · 18/09/2021 21:14

Wear something patchwork and go as Elmer.
Peter rabbit. Or any Beatrix potter.
The Wonky donkey

Lissie87 · 18/09/2021 21:17

I love fancy dress!

Get yourself a cardboard box. Cut arm, head and torso holes but leave the ‘box flaps’ Grin at the front to be doors. Paint as a wardrobe. Extra points for it looking like Narnia inside when someone opens it.

If it has to be The Title then be a lion from the neck up and a witch from the waist down, or vice versa.

AntennaReborn · 18/09/2021 21:17

The Scarlet Letter

Big red A in felt tip on a white t shirt

Inextremis · 18/09/2021 21:17

Dress as Madonna and say you're 1984?

Schulte · 18/09/2021 21:18

Inspirational thread, thanks for all the ideas so far!

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PostmanSplat · 18/09/2021 21:18

Get some false teeth and go as Zadie Smith’s ‘white teeth’

LookAtMoiPloise · 18/09/2021 21:19

The Kite Runner? Get a kite and wear running gear.

Dracula? Wear a Vampire outfit.

Jeffers5 · 18/09/2021 21:22

My alien wears underpants

Alien….big pants!

MrsFin · 18/09/2021 21:23

The Book Thief
Oliver Twist
Alice in Wonderland
Mary Queen of Scots
Pippi Longstocking
Anne of Green Gables
Emma
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Compleat Angler

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 18/09/2021 21:23

Wear your usual clothes and be Normal People, Sally Rooney.

Jeffers5 · 18/09/2021 21:24

Gangsta granny

NuffSaidSam · 18/09/2021 21:26

The Essex Serpent - fake tan, drawn on eyebrows, white heels and a very short, very tight snake print dress.

AntennaReborn · 18/09/2021 21:26

Rebecca

Just wear a name tag with "Rebecca" on it

ShesComeUndone · 18/09/2021 21:27

Make a picture frame and cut a hole in it for your head and come as ‘The Portrait of a Lady’.

NuffSaidSam · 18/09/2021 21:29

Sherlock Holmes - obvious, but what a great outfit. Take a dog for Hound of the Baskerville's or a selection of ginger friends for The Red-Headed League. Or if you're taking a partner/friend get them to be The Man with the Twisted lip.

DialSquare · 18/09/2021 21:29

Or take a fishing net and some ryvitas. The Catcher in the Rye

ElvenDreamer · 18/09/2021 21:29

White t shirt, write words and definitions all over it. The Oxford English Dictionary.

AntennaReborn · 18/09/2021 21:29

The Waves

Make some wave cutouts and attach them to a dress