Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau, via Associated PressHalloween is sure to have a contingent of Occupy Wall Street-inspired costumes this year.This weekend, thousands of Americans will cobble together Wall Street-themed costumes in preparation for Halloween. (Pre-emptive note: dressing in a suit and tie and labeling yourself “The One Percent” is not as clever as you think.)
DealBook is here to help. Here with: our seven best finance-themed costume ideas, with tips on how to pull them off at your parties this weekend.
Zombie MF Global: Dress in tattered rags, tape “FOR SALE” signs to all your appendages, and wear a necklace that says “Credit Lines.” Tap it repeatedly. Have two friends dressed as ratings agencies follow you around, telling everyone at the party how ugly you are.
Sexy Judge Jed S. Rakoff: Wear a long black robe with nothing underneath, and tell other partygoers you can “neither confirm nor deny” that you’re looking for love.
Reed Hastings of Netflix: Walk around the party grabbing people’s drinks, splitting them into two cups, then offering to sell the cups back to them for $7.99 apiece. When people complain, wait until half the party has gone home, then cut the music and issue your heartfelt apologies.
The Volcker Rule: Tell your party’s host you’ll arrive in a three-piece suit. Show up in a 1,300-piece suit filled with holes. Find the guy doing keg stands in the corner, and make him fill out a form indicating the proposed length of his keg stand and the likelihood he’ll fall over.
Kweku Adoboli: Sneak into the party through the back door and shovel two billion pieces of candy corn from the host’s candy bucket into your backpack. Replace them with two billion triangle-shaped pieces of orange construction paper.
John Paulson: Dress in gold. Punch yourself repeatedly all night.
The European Debt Negotiations (group costumes): Dress one person in a toga and sandals and shave 50 percent of his head. Have another arrive hours late, dressed as an Italian prime minister, with a dozen young girls in tow. The rest of the group should spend the night yelling at the Italian, while a person dressed as Spain pours cyanide in the punch bowl.