Barbies (and Ken) In Boxes

Every year my university puts on a night at the end of the RAG charity week called The Dental Beer Race (the dentists organise it). It's a pub crawl down a long road in East London and everyone goes in group fancy dress, with prizes for the "winners."

People really put A LOT of time and effort into it, and two years ago myself and my friends decided to go as "Barbies In Boxes."

2013. L-R Disco Barbie, 80s Barbie, Beach Ken, Sailor Barbie, Prom Queen Barbie

 Needless to say, we fucking won. So many people thought this was incredible (and it was tbh!)

The cardboard boxes were bought off Amazon, I believe they are "wardrobe" boxes? They were cut to size, painted pink, Barbie/Ken painted on, and the Mattel circle stuck on. We then tied them to our shoulders with string. 

Great thing with this is, you can go as any Barbie so the clothes you wear don't really matter. My sailor costume was bought off the internet. 

Have to say, the boxes got annoying, and some of the bars wouldn't let us in with them. By the time we got to the club at the end they got shoved in a corner and forgotten about. 

People must have thought we were mad. Definitely one of the *best* fancy dress costumes I've ever been involved with though!