Fancy dress is always a bit of a minefield, and no more so than during the Halloween festive period.
If you're umming and aahing over whether you should be "outrageous" or "controversial", then we strongly suggest you leaf through some students who thought the same - and it might make you think twice..
When fancy dress goes very, very wrong
Towering stupidity(01 of07)
Annie Collinge and Amber Langford made the headlines for all the wrong reasons when they dressed up for a competition at their local night club. Bizarrely, they even won first prize, while it emerged Langford's father was flying a UE jet in the US at the time of the 9/11 attacks.
Rugby bants gone wrong(02 of07)
The University of East Anglia Rugby Club was disbanded in 2012 after its members dressed as Baby P, Klu Klux Klan extremists, then-recently deseased Wales manager Gary Speed and LRA leader Joseph Kony
When a pimp party gets political(03 of07)
When Carnage held a pimps and hoes fancy dress night in 2012, and encouraged students to dress as prostitutes, a petition from the Cardiff Women's Association was launched against the "misogynistic" theme
Students paints his face black. Wins fancy dress competition(04 of07)
Yes, this really happened - at the University of London Union. In 2013, a student won first prize in a fancy dress competition hosted by his student union, even though he went in a "sick" blackface costume.
Students "black up" again - this time as Jamaicans(05 of07)
In 2013, four York University students had to apologise after attending a fancy dress party "blacked up" as the Jamaican bobsleigh team, made famous by the film Cool Runnings.
Nope, they still haven't learnt(06 of07)
Law students from Edinburgh University dressed up to go to a social organised by their law society, which had an "around the world" theme. For some reason, they decided to "black up" as Somalian pirates, and painted their faces and hands dark brown.
Another rugby club banned(07 of07)
This time it was one at Durham University, after members went on a night out dressed up as Jimmy Savile and his victims.