What Your Halloween Costume Says About You
Posted by goodmind on October 27th, 2008
When you’re too old to go trick-or-treating, selecting an appropriately ironic Halloween costume can be difficult and time consuming – not to mention stressful. No need to resort to the pregnant nun this year. Dear Jane Sample has suggested ten simple, yet elegant Halloween costume ideas, inspired by the advertising agency.
You can see the entire list here, but these are our personal favorites;
1. Brief – This one is simple, wear some briefs and nothing else. If you have a less then perfect body (or a realist self-perception and know you have a less then perfect body) or you live in a cold climate wear a skin-toned body suit underneath the briefs.
2. The Revised Layout – For this one, you can just wear a flattened cardboard box with an ad layout on it, with mark ups and comments. Common revisions to include are:
- Bigger logo
- Starburst
- longer copy
- more legal
- comments like “I don’t like blue” or “my 2 year old could do better”
- Addition of bad stock photography
9. Web 2.0 – Dress all in white, attach some webs on to your clothes and stick a “2.0″ on your forehead. Add a “kick me sign” to your back and explain that Print stuck it on you when you weren’t looking.
10. Bad Advertising ideas – Think of yourself as a collage and randomly stick “bad advertising ideas” on yourself. If you are lazy you can just stick the words on yourself, but if you are a keener add the actual campaign names and visual. Some examples:
- Viral
- Consumer Generated
- The recent Microsoft campaigns
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