What happened to Dumb and Dumber suits?
Ever since I saw the movie Dumb & Dumber I’ve wanted the orange suit that Lloyd (Jim Carrey’s character) wears in a party scene.
I’ve always loved wearing suits and formal wear. I liked to wear ties even before Avril Lavigne made it ‘hip’; though she probably influenced me to wear them more.
When I saw the suits in Dumb & Dumber I fell in love. I imagined myself wearing the orange one, but I also thought I’d look smashing in the light blue one. I wanted one of them — if not, both.
The first use case I came up with was my grade 12 formal. Me. Orange. Spunkalicious. That didn’t end up happening, but I did go to that formal in my chocolate-brown suit and my hair was dyed (with Fudge — the permanent stuff) aqua-green. Why? Because my date (naturally a red-head) had her hair dyed brown and she was wearing an aqua-green dress. I know, I know, it was awesome!
After high school I was determined to have the orange suit custom-made for me. I was willing to pay up to $1,000 for someone to make it for me. I called around to various tailors to see if they would be able to make the suit for me and I did find some interest but I never followed up with them because I didn’t trust that any of them would be capable of making the suit to look exactly like the one in the film (this includes the top hat, cane, and shoes — all orange in colour).
Then, one day, I discovered dumbanddumbercostumes.com (I believe that was the URL; it appears the site is no longer around (for now)). They had the orange and light blue suits (I mean, tuxedos) from Dumb & Dumber. It included the top hat, shoes, cane, and socks. All of the items were 95% accurately replicated from those seen in the film. I was excited to say the least! Oh, and they were priced around $250 — that’s a really reasonable price!
I held off on purchasing the suit/tuxedo/outfit for a while because I didn’t really have any event I could wear it to.
At the end of 2009 one of my best friends got married and I asked if I could wear the orange suit to her wedding. She didn’t really give me a definitive answer, but she didn’t say “go for it!”, so I held off on the idea.
A few days ago I went to look at the website again just to see if they were priced the same or if anything had changed. I couldn’t find the website. I looked through my browser’s history (I keep all the history), my Delicious bookmarks, my Gnolia bookmarks, and anywhere else I may have saved the information. Google results showed dumbanddumbercostumes.com, but nothing was at that URL. I was saddened.
After a few more web searches I finally came across brightcoloredtuxedos.com. It seems that the same people that operated dumbanddumbercostumes.com are now operating Bright Colored Tuxedos, and they’ve added a bunch more colours! They have every colour of the rainbow. Yeah, it’s awesome!
They still have the orange and light blue suittuxedos. And they’re currently priced at US$219 to buy (you can also rent them at US$125 for 1-3 days). Again, I’m excited!
The orange tuxedo is the next formal attire I plan on purchasing, but I just need a rad event to wear it to. Perhaps, PodCamp AZ will be a good event — it will probably be quite hot there though.
If you have a giddy event you’d like me to wear the orange tuxedo to, then give me a holler!
This post is intended to give people — like myself — information on where to buy/rent the tuxedos that were previously available at dumbanddumbercostumes.com.
