Fancy Dress Costumes
Fancy dress parties are my favorite kind of parties since I was a teenager.
At such a party I can express myself just as I want.
Everyone is very competitive and wants to stand out with their fancy dress costumes.
What I absolutely don’t like is if someone shows up wearing normal 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.
Everybody has put in effort to think about their costume what shows that they care but not them.
One party I’ll never forget was a science fiction themed party.
People really went to town, most of them in hand made fancy dress costumes that were totally bizarre.
It was like a convention of aliens or that scene in Star Wars where they all sit in the alien’s bar.
A friend of mine only has one leg and imagine what: he showed up in a costume with four arms.
None of all the other fancy dress costumes could beat that! Best of all, he came to the party with the bus.
Just before we were going to the party we went to the pub all together and got a stunned reaction.
We almost were a bit of a fire hazard, having used loads of hair spray trying to style our hair into wacky styles.
Maybe the party theme that is most popular at the moment seems to be pirates.
Without doubt the reason for this are 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.
That’s the wonderful thing about fancy dress costumes, everybody can say and do things you wouldn’t dream of ordinarily.
Just like in those old movies with the set piece of a masked ball.
There is intrigue in spades because we are led to believe no one is recognized behind their flimsy mask!
Personally I like more inventive fancy dress than the tired old subjects.
There is not much imagination needed to throw a doctors and nurses or a cowboys and Indians party.
I remember 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’m inspired about throwing a similar bash myself.
It would certainly be an option for some bizarre fancy dress costumes.
My hero however is Mahatma Gandhi, although I don’t really want to carry trays of nibbles round, wearing my loin cloth and wire rimmed glasses.
The hero that my husband likes the most is Gandalf, the Wizard from Lord of the Rings.
If nothing else at least we’d have fireworks!
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