I've been looking around for costume ideas for several friends, as well as my girlfriend. She got a couple of lame ones from the internet where it's just a bag with a bunch of ill-fitting components meant to look like a popular figure or character. I think the way you make a good costume is by using as much of your own stuff as possible (I once dressed as Neo without buying even one thing), and buying the crazy stuff that you might not have owned, like say, a patent leather yellow jacket when you're dressing as "Live at Wembley Freddie Mercury," or a clear rain jacket for Pat Bateman.
Well, I thought that "Michelle Jackson" would be a good costume and I started poking around Google. This is what I found.
She's not going to buy one of these, but it did give me some ideas. This is gonna be one sweet costume.