Advantages and Disadvantages of Couple's Costumes

When you are in a relationship, the obvious answer for costume ideas always seem to be a couple's theme costume. It's a great idea and usually pretty easy to come up with. However, in addition to some of the advantages, there are a couple of not so inviting disadvantages to being associated with your costumes buddy all night.
Advantage: People will look at you and say “OMG, that’s so adorable”
Disadvantage: May be embarrassing to your guy when people look at you and say “OMG, that’s so adorable”.

Advantage: You get to spend the whole night with your costume buddy!
Disadvantage: Sometimes in order for someone to know who you are dressing as, you need both parts of the team.

Advantage: You can easily spot each other in a crowd if you get lost.
Disadvantage: Guilty by association: If your partner does something embarrassing you can’t get away with the “I don’t know him” excuse.

Advantage: You can get pretty creative with couple's costumes. You can go anywhere from Martha and George Washington, to Barbie and Ken, to Bacon and Eggs!
Disadvantage: Might be kind of difficult to reuse your costume the next year, with your...uhh...new boyfriend.

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Costume Talk - Tea Party on Tax Day!

Welcome to the first edition of Costume Talk! Costume Talk will look at recent news stories that in one way or another have something to do with well, costumes. It's always interesting to see how costumes have an effect on culture and we'll try to bring some of the most interesting stories to the forefront.

Our inaugural story lands on Tax Day in the United States. What better way to kick it off than with a story about tax day protesters in costume?

According to Fox News, hundreds of anti-tax rallies kicked off on Wednesday in several U.S. cities.

The kicker here is "(protesters) dressed in colonial wigs with tea bags hanging from their glasses" and the report goes on to say some rallies had planned for over one million tea bags delivered. The rallies are part of a larger grassroots movement called Taxed Enough Already - which is why there are all the references to that historical TEA party in Boston.

You may or may not agree with the rallies, but you have to enjoy the creativity of the protesters. Using costumes to get your point across is not the most traditional tactic, but I'm sure their point was made.

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