Fancy Dress
Costumes
A Fancy Dress Costume for You
Fancy Dress Costumes for the
Ultimate Masquerade Party
I love fancy dress parties. They give
me a chance to express myself and everyone is very
competitive and wants to have the best of the fancy dress
costumes. The only thing I don't like is if someone turns up
wearing their street clothes.
It's like saying it doesn't apply to
them, they are above such things and are important people
who are too busy to bother with such trifles. It really
annoys me when everyone else has put in the
effort.
Out of This World
Costumes
The best party I ever went to was a
science fiction set party. People really went to town, with
mostly hand made fancy dress costumes that were completely
bizarre. It was like a convention of aliens or that scene in
Star Wars when they're all sitting in the alien's bar.
I have a friend who has one leg and he
turned up in a costume that had four arms. No other fancy
dress costumes could beat that! Best of all, he had gone to
the party on the bus. We all trooped in to the pub before
going to the party and got a stunned reaction. We were a bit
of a fire hazard, having used so much hair spray trying to
style our hair into wacky styles.
A Pirate Costume
Party
The most popular set party at the
moment seems to be pirates. This is because of the popular
Pirates of the Caribbean movies. It's a great excuse to wave
a cutlass around and have a stuffed parrot glued to your
shoulder. Men doing their Johnny Depp impressions in their
fancy dress costumes can say the most outrageous things
because they're in character.
A Fancy Dress Costume Frees You of
Inhibitions
That's the terrific thing about
fancy
dress costumes, you can say
and do things you wouldn't dream of ordinarily.
It reminds me of those old movies with
the setting of a masquerade ball where everyone is wearing a
mask of some sort. There is mystique in spades because we
are led to believe no one is recognized behind their flimsy
mask!
Invent Your Own Fancy Dress Costume
Event
I prefer more inventive fancy dress
than the tired old subjects. It doesn't take much
imagination to throw a doctors and nurses or a cowboys and
Indians party. There's a good episode of Frasier in which
Frasier hosts a party at which the guests are invited to
come in the guise of their hero.
He of course comes dressed as Sigmund
Freud and is disgusted at Roz's choice of Wonder Woman. I've
thought about throwing a similar bash myself. It would
certainly make for some bizarre fancy dress costumes.
My hero however is Mahatma Gandhi, and
I don't really want to carry trays of nibbles round, wearing
my loin cloth and wire rimmed glasses. My husband's hero is
Gandalf, the Wizard from Lord of the Rings. Together we
light up the night by wearing our fancy dress costumes ...
And you can too!!
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