Please help with historical costume for DS!

[CarelessWispa]

DS has been invited to a Horrible History party next weekend, with a prize offered for best historical costume. He's incredibly excited about it.

Can anyone help me? I'm useless at sewing so am hoping for something I can throw together, but am determined not to buy a nylontastic costume from ebay.

Our short list so far is:
William Wallace - can buy tartan material, use belt/safety pins, but will need to buy wig/blue face paint. Can I make William Wallace hair easily? (don't want to spend a fortune)
Mark Anthony - toga style with white t-shirt. Shoes/sandals? Bit tricky in December.
Dick Turpin - white shirt (mine), make black cape. Would need mask/hat.

What do you think ladies? Am looking for minimum spend, maximum result, if you get my drift.

Thanks, in advance.

Stupid Deaths guy? Black clothes, white and black face paint.

Good idea, Panzee. Especially as DS likes to do the Stupid Deaths dance....

Anyone else?

My parents once dressed me up as Caesar (not sure if he's in Horrible Histories?). Was dead easy: white t-shirt, white petticoat (I think maybe shorts since your DS is a boy ) and they bought a length of purple fabric that I wore as a toga and some fake ivy that they twisted into a crown-thing and sprayed gold. Everything secured with safety pins, no sewing or complicated stuff required.

Do you have an old fashioned binocular case? Label it 'Gas Mask' and dress him up as a WW2 evacuee (shorts, jumper, school shoes, socks, label around his neck, briefcase/suitcase).

If you have access to a brown sack, cut holes in it and smudge his face, give him a garden implement (hoe/rake, depends how old/sensible he is!) and he can be a peasant.

Thanks, RoseC. Brilliant ideas. Sadly no binocular case/brown sack to hand, white t shirt I do have!

Keep the ideas, coming. Then I'll present idea to DS and try to persuade bribe him to go with the easiest option.....

Charlie Chaplin? Rolled-up man's suit (baggy = 'The Tramp'), draw on a moustache, bowler hat or messy hair, walking stick optional.

Shirt, trousers, blue/red scarf around neck, beret = French revolutionary

White t-shirt, jeans, shovel, US flag = American railroad worker (IIRC they were who jeans were invented for)/Charles Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie (he went away to do manual work for a bit, I think on the railroad).

White baggy shirt, trousers, neck scarf, fake sword, glue cotton wool on paper triangle and tie it to some elastic, dye wool with blue food colouring = Bluebeard

Suit + sunglasses = CIA agent who helped to plant phone taps during the Watergate Scandal (E. Howard Hunt)

Can you tell I've not had to go through the horror of fancy dress yet?