Nude Day, Costumes That Won’t Get You Arrested
While the Francophiles are off celebrating Bastille Day on July 14th, we’re more interested in a “barely there” holiday that is sure to have you thinking “ooh, la, la!” Tip your top hat and take off your clothes because across America, today is National Nude Day. By all accounts, National Nude Day is a serious event. However, for the more modest among us who don’t actually want to strut around in our birthday suits, we propose an alternative – wearing a costume!
While is seems contradictory that you could wear a costume on a day that honors going “au natural,” there are a couple funny ones in the online vaults of humorous Halloween costumes. For example, go back, way back, to the beginning of mankind and check out what Adam and Eve were wearing – from what we’ve learned, not much more than a fig leaf at best. You can create your own personal Eden by slipping into one of the “nude” Adam and Eve costumes that are actually skin-tone suits covered strategically with leaves – don’t forget to bring along plastic serpent and apple as biblically accurate props!
If you search around to some of the stranger parts of the internet, you can actually find nude costumes that make you stop and gawk to see if it’s the real thing. We’re talking t-shirts, shorts, dresses and other clothes that cover your real bits and pieces up while showing off fictional appendages – people can get quite creative in how to get around modesty laws! In the same vein, if you’ve ever been to a museum gift shop, the apron of the statue “David” has probably gotten your attention!
Some final thoughts on what to wear on National Nude Day to keep the party going (but not get arrested) include Halloween costumes based on aliens from blockbuster movies – think about it, most of these characters are always walking around in their bare skin or at least nearly-naked. From the blue, feline-like costumes from Avatar to furry Chewbacca from Star Wars wearing only a bandolier, we think you’ll have an out-of-this-world time being “naked” today!
Out-Of-This-World Costumes for the “Rosw-alien” Experience
Looking for a place to land and let your freak flag wave? Try the “Roswell UFO Festival” in New Mexico that happens at the beginning of each July. With the alleged 1947 UFO landing, recovery of alien corpses, and subsequent government cover-up as the impetus, this long-running festival has something for every being, terrestrial or not. From serious-natured symposiums on the existence of life beyond Earth and black-tie galas to a tongue-in-cheek BBQ cook-off where a prize is awarded to the best recipe for “how to cook an alien”, this four-day event is a wonderfully outrageous overload of outer space.
Two of the most popular events are the UFO Festival Parade and the costume contest. This is where you will see some of the most amazing sights and will make you think of the phrase “you’re from another planet” in a whole new way. Prizes are awarded for the scariest costume, TV and movie alien costumes, and most creative costumes. There is even a category for your interplanetary canine friend. These are not your typical Halloween costumes, many are elaborately designed and handmade – you know this must be the banner event of the year for these UFO enthusiasts.
If you are heading to the UFO Festival some time soon, you’ll need to get a head start on your alien costume. In terms of sheer simplicity, just order a tube of green face paint from the costume shop and add a pair of Martian antennae. Or, you can dress as the stereotypical Roswell alien corpse in a white outer space costume with the oval head and dark, sunken and oversized eyes – just don’t pass out, you may end up in some hidden government morgue.
Television and movie aliens abound. Kids will have a blast in a green alien costume from the movie Toy Story – you know, the little green guys piled up in the crane game at the Pizza Planet! Sure to be big at the next Roswell UFO Festival and for Halloween costumes everywhere are the characters from the blockbuster movie, Avatar. These feline-like aliens have blue skin, long tails and hypnotic yellow-green eyes. Other ideas for men’s and womens costumes include any of the non-mortal characters from any of the Star Wars movies, Star Trek movies, or Disney’s Monsters and Aliens.
Amazing Avatar Costumes
One of the most memorable things I did over holiday break was take the kids to go see Avatar in 3D. In case you have been living under some sort of earth rock, you’ve surely heard the buzz about this epic tale taking place on the planet Pandora. Masterminded by James Cameron, this spectacle of a film is breaking barriers not only in computer-generated graphics but in box office revenues as well (surpassing the 1 billion mark is what I’ve heard).
Even though fantasy, science-fiction genre movies aren’t really “my thing”, I instantly was won over by the amazing landscape and beautiful blue, larger-than-life inhabitants of this make-believe planet. As I sat through the 3-hour film (which I really didn’t want to end), I knew at once this film was going to launch many “must-have” costumes for Halloween 2010. While the machine versus nature plot has been seen in varying forms before and the love story between the human and the Pandorian was predictable, it was the sheer sight of the amazing scenery and the empathy for the computer animated characters that will make this movie go down in history.
While there aren’t any Avatar costumes for this film out on the market yet (movie just release December 18th), you <i>so</i> know they will be ready this summer in time for Halloween 2010. If you just can’t wait to dress up like Jake Sulley in his Pandorian avatar body or like the native beauty, Neytiri, you can use blue face paints and detailing on your face and wear blue tights and an a blue compression-style workout shirt for the Avatar costume base. Add a blue tail on the back for swishing about and a wig of long braids (remember how they used their hair to make the “bond” with their birds and other animals?). You could also add some pointed elf ears to your Avatar costume which you have painted blue to match.
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