h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What the title says...

cut holes in bin-liner - insert limbs/ head as desired.
umm.. that's it.

Oh - if you need to, you can use Gaffer tape for adjustments / reinforcements

Carefully.

When I was at university there was an annual ball called "Freakers" which was where people dressed up as their perversions (basically, although it probably wasn't intended as this).
A friend of mine dressed up in binliners by wrapping them around himself as shorts and taping the resulting thing up with duct tape....several pints later on a hot dancefloor he realised his error - he hadn't a way to go to the loo in these pants, as there was no fastening.

A better way would be to get an old pair of boxer shorts and staple bin bags around them, bunching to produce a pleated effect. This could then be removed more easily.

hmm - dare I ask how he got out of that one?

I have asked (by email) but he is now in Japan and so it may be some time before we get a reply...even assuming he does remember, which I don't.

I do remember that when he told me about his difficulty my first thought (and possibly comment) was "Well, I hope you don't meet a willing freakess or you'll never get them back on".
Strange stuff this 'beer'

Sorry to be nosey - but why do you want to?

partly a why not thing - partly cos it seems like fun - partly cos the binliner look looks good (well, I reckons).
Oh, and it might come in handy for a fancy-dress party some time - so I thought I'd ask for tips early...

There's a video presentation at http://www.cnn.com/US/9708/21/garbage.bag.raingear/video.html

although I couldn't get the plug in to work

me neither - don't have rights to install plugins on my machine...

http://www.frugal-moms.com/kids/bagdress.shtml has a completely over the top method, on the other hand....
(and it doesn't have plug-ins!)

You could try crocheting them. I bought my girlfriend a very nice purse made entirely out of crocheted grocery bags (carrier bags in the UK?). I could imagine a rather attractive macrame-type dress made from the same materials. If I knew more about how to crochet, I could offer a more technical description.

1. Sharpen one end each of two 12 inch pieces of i inch dowelling

2. Place a knob of Blu-tack or similar to other end

3. Cut bin liners into strips

4. Knit a dressing gown

(using strips of carrier bags gives a nice tweedy effect)

If you can't knit, either ask a grandmother or give us a shout.

*shouts*

nah, knitting can't be that tricky... and I'll be wanting something to do while I sunbathe...

Do send pix when you've accomplished your creation!

don't hold your breath...

(though when it's developed I'll try and put my photo of this ---> http://www.h2g2.com/A377165 online. Start small, that's what I say )

Well, if you really wanted to start small, you could start with making a G-string out of binliners & work up from there to the poufy dresses.

poufy? Is that a word?

See the frugal-moms pic above for my idea of 'poufy.'

oh, I see... well, it's impressive, anyway - though I dread to think how much time it took! (or how many bags...)

The main problem with this whole idea seems to be that plastic doesn't have any "spring" in it - unlike what real clothes are made of... which means that if you make a pair of trousers which go in at the waist, then you can't get them off - as the person above sadly found out in "freakers". So you need some sort of fastening - but the material probably won't take buttons or zips very well, and in any case that starts to get pretty expensive... I guess the key will be to try to have tieing fastenings - so you'd have a cord of plastic attached to your trousers, and tie it up tight once you'd put it on, then untie it afterwards. The alternative is to make it a wear-once thing, but that makes going to the toilet, et al, pretty impossible, and seems a bit wasteful anyway...

I wonder how much extra stretch the knitting/crotcheting would give it... and breathability, of course...

Knitting, weaving or crocheting would all give you extra strength, breathability & wearability and plenty of other bilities as well. The one snag is that they do take a llittle longer to construct, and it's also quite a nice little hobby for a nice person like you!!!! Quiet & sober.....