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" Ladies, I am going to share with you my favorite costume of, well, all time. While it&amp;#039;s a costume that does limit your ability to walk (actually, it makes you completely immobile) and it might be a little bit chilly (and by a little bit I mean A LOT, since Halloween&amp;#039;s weather in most parts of the country gets nippy) I guess I want to share it less as a Halloween costume, per say, and maybe more of generally fun and funky costume idea.  My friend Ashley is an incredibly talented filmmaker with a hilarious sense of humor and a great instinct for &amp;quot;making art.&amp;quot; Ashley and I dressed up as mermaids for a mockumentary film about a couple of mermaids picketing for a mermaid&amp;#039;s right to vote (&amp;quot;mockumentary&amp;quot; is the film genre of fake documentary\u2026along the same lines as TV shows like The Office, and 30 Rock).  For our costumes, Ashley had taken bright green fabric and stitched it together with a basic single-seam. The tips of our fins were filled with the extra fabric to give the flipper-ends weight. Then we each wore a standard bikini top (suits similar to mine available on jcrew.com) and decorated individual masks using metallic gum wrappers and hot glue. Voila! The costumes were a hit, and many funny people agreed to play along and sign our petition for Mermaid Suffrage. As for Halloween advice? Just try and step outside the box when it comes to costume making. Spark up your creativity (using Halloween as a change to dress up trashy or super risqu\u00E9 is tired and SO overdone). Dress up keeping your female loveliness and dignity intact, have fun scarfing Mars Bars til ya drop, and Happy Halloween! Get more fun Halloween ideas here! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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