In honor of spooky season, we’ve compiled a list of DC-centric costumes you can craft at the last minute.

🐀 A Popeyes Rat – The Rude Viral Video showing a group of rats climbing the walls of a now closed Southeast, Popeyes had DC in a chokehold for some time.

• The costume: rat ears (could be cardboard), mustaches drawn with paint or eyeliner, and a box of Popeyes chicken.

🚇 A 7000 series train – We are all desperate for shiny subway trains to come back and bring shorter waiting times with them.

• The costume: Stick a Wanted sign of a 7000 series train on a t-shirt (or draw one).

🎼 Lizzo’s historic flute moment – Last month, the pop star (and classically trained flautist) wowed fans by playing a few notes on James Madison’s crystal flute on his DC show.

• The Costume: Wear a sparkly leotard with boots and hold a flute (or dazzle a $1.25 recorder).

🏊🏻‍♀️ Lorde’s Dip in the Potomac – In August, the singer admitted to having swim in the potomac before his show at The Anthem.

• The Costume: Hold a microphone (easily created using a paper towel roll) and wear a bathing suit. Bonus points if you add a blonde wig.

🦊 Capitol Fox – The cute, but enraged creature frightened journalists, staffers and lawmakers on the Hill for about a day before being captured and euthanized.

• The costume: fox ears (also easily created using cardboard or paper), a nose and whiskers drawn using eyeliner or paint, and a kind of tail.
• To go further… you could also be the fox who killed 25 flamingos at the zoo in May… we’ll let you design your own costumes for that.

Did we miss any smart DC costumes? Email us your best ideas and we’ll update the list and give you a shout out.