The Wake

All Hallows Eve is the one night a year you can let out your inner lobster, trashy pop star, or David Bowie drag queen and prance across campus wearing red socks clipped to your arms, a Denny’s shirt and apron while carrying baby doll heads by the synthetic hair, or suctioned into a short dress and gobs of makeup, respectively– without facing questioning stares (or accusations of being a theater major).

This October, The Wake wants to make sure you choose your costume carefully. To do so, we’ve pounced on everyone from computer geeks to the thespian couple sitting in my kitchen, and asked them for examples of the good, the bad, and the downright disturbing outfits they’ve seen (or donned) in public. Here’s what they had to say.

Jessica Frieburg, undecided sophomore: “The new thing this year is Steve Irwin costumes.”

Charles Borcherg, computer engineering senior: “Toxic waste. It’s hard to explain. It’s a pollution-type thing with syringes dangling off. I was [also] a bum,” he continues, by wearing a trench coat lined with photo albums holding pictures of Harry Truman.

Kate Nelsen, Japanese sophomore: “Someone went as the guy who’s ‘Thinking Arby’s.’”

Marie Kleinschmidt, theater senior: “Giant penises. That’s all you see in Madison on State Street.”

Buddy, theater senior: “Dress as a big hairy toe. Then when people ask, say you’re a camel toe.”

More favorites include a giant sardine made of tinfoil, “nerdy friends” that went as a “blue-screen of death,” a mushroom that “ended up looking like a giant phallus,” and a big vagina suit. Now that’s equality.