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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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SprinkleOfInsanity · 18/09/2021 22:14

Dress as a Lord and wear ALL the rings, et voila, Lord of the Rings.

Similar vein.. dress as a Lord and attach loads of toy flys to your clothes, Lord of the Flies.

Puffalicious · 18/09/2021 22:18

A gold medal, holding a sausage/ bowl of cereal/ toast.

Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut.

bigbaggyeyes · 18/09/2021 22:18

Tom Fletchers 'the creakers'
wear dungarees, swimming goggles and carry a torch

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FrankOrTheBeans · 18/09/2021 22:22

Of Mice and Men?

Eskarina1 · 18/09/2021 22:23

Amazon suggests there's a book called Walrus needs a home.

Ive gone to a similar party as the Snow Queen, which was fun to pull together. Also was The Worst Witch one Halloween (doesn't have to be Mildred Hubble, a terrible witch costume could be fun).

As a Terry Pratchett fan, I might go as Maskerade

Or you could pick an animal to dress as and put a big red cross on yourself - go as one of the "That's not my..." Books.

Suasthuasanuas · 18/09/2021 22:24

@MistandMud

Stick fairy lights all over you, but keep them turned off: All the Light you Cannot See
Genius!
museumum · 18/09/2021 22:29

Running kit. Carrying a kite.

Justaboutawake · 18/09/2021 22:30

Animal Farm
Frankenstein
The Great Gatsby
James and the Giant Peach

powershowerforanhour · 18/09/2021 22:35

Print out some of those Victorian death portraits off the internet and stick them over your chin and down your front and put some in one of those eggboxy cardboard containers hospital give you to puke into:
Hilary Mantel's Bring Up The Bodies.

barneymcgroo · 18/09/2021 22:37

The spy who came in from the cold?

overthethamesfromyou · 18/09/2021 22:41

Cider with Rosie

Name badge yourself Rosie and a can of Strongbow Smile

TortolaParadise · 18/09/2021 22:44

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Wear purple clothes.

MoiraNotRuby · 18/09/2021 22:48

The 100 year old man who climbed out of a window and disappeared.

Wear a window frame sandwich board. Without a man because he has disappeared.

DialSquare · 18/09/2021 22:54

I keep thinking of more! Stick 8 photos of the group Steps on yourself but make sure you cut one of the members off just one of the photos. The 39 Steps!

titchy · 18/09/2021 22:59

Lots of green leaves all over you - Day of the Triffids? Grass skirt and fart a lot - Wind in the Willows? Loads of Chanel no 5 and sniff a lot - Perfume?

Clawdy · 18/09/2021 23:13

Woman In Black - dead easy.

Thehouseofmarvels · 18/09/2021 23:16

Wear everything purple and you are ' The Colour Purple'

AdaColeman · 18/09/2021 23:22

Old clothes, ideally an old tweed jacket, walking boots ~ As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.

Or wear your best party frock and a plastic tiara, carry a handbag with a small bottle of gin, go as Princess Margaret from Ma’am Darling.

minipie · 19/09/2021 00:38

Net with a large 22 in it

AntennaReborn · 19/09/2021 08:21

@DialSquare

I keep thinking of more! Stick 8 photos of the group Steps on yourself but make sure you cut one of the members off just one of the photos. The 39 Steps!

That's genius 😂😂

inappropriateraspberry · 19/09/2021 09:42

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Eagle Has Landed
Day of the Jackal
Dr. No
Casino Royale - a gambling queen
All the other Bond books!

crosshatching · 19/09/2021 09:57

Turn up, seduce someone's husband and claim you're Madame Bovary.

Go on a bike dressed as a courier and say you're The Go Between.

Smashingspinster · 19/09/2021 11:03

@Schulte - forgot to say hold a book in your hand - you are the handbook of the periodic table.

MistandMud · 19/09/2021 13:48

Plain white t shirt.

Draw some music staves.

Write 15/8 5/4 7/8 at the start of them.

Hard Times.

MistandMud · 19/09/2021 13:48

If your name happens to be Carol, just wear tinsel.