Heh. My friend and I are huge Mario fans and every now and then we go to 'serious' school functions in our perfect Mario Brother costumes. It really makes all the idiots that take getting drunk and 'dancing' fun mad that we mock everything they hold dear by taking the floor and doing "the Mario" in our constumes.
I am Luigi, because I am thinner. I even grew a big mustache and sideburns. My friend can't grow a mustache (give him a break, we are only seniors in high school) so he wears a fake one. He goes as Mario because he has the nice fat belly.
Anyway, like I said, our costumes are darned near perfect. We have the colored shirts, blue overalls, brown work shoes, and even the white gloves and the colored hats which we had to modify ourselves. In order to make the hats perfectly, we had to find black golf hats, remove the snap buttons, paint them green or red with fabric paint (it actually looks really good!) and create little 'L' and 'M' labels. Perfect. We have entered 3 costume contests and won 1st in all of them. Make an extra effort to make your costumes perfect, it pays off.
-TurtleTek
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