Today’s fancy dress theme is Film Heroes & Heroines. As we mentioned a week or so ago, today marks the 30th
anniversary of the UK première of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, the film that introduced us to that iconic action archaeologist, Indiana Jones. The film was designed to recreate the spirit of the Saturday morning Matinee ‘cliffhanger’ cinema stories – the sort of thing also found in ‘Boy’s Own Paper’ and the Wizard comic. If all that sounds rather male-orientated, of course the girls later had their own role-model in Tomb Raider Lara Croft.
Let’s take a look at some of the costume suggestionst hat we have for Film Heroes & Heroines….
- James Bond
- Captain Jack Sparrow – he is a ‘sort of’ hero
- Harry Potter
- Lara Croft
- Superman
- Batman
- Wonder Woman
- Obi Wan Kenobi
- Princess Leia
- Lawrence of Arabia – an Arab Costume is quite easy to put together at home, if you do not have the time, take a look at our Arab costumes
- Indiana Jones
- Spartacus
- Mahatma Ghandi
- Robin Hood
- Ellen Ripley
- Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne)
- William Wallace
- Zorro
- Bat Girl
- Ben Hur
- T-800 – Terminator
- Captain James T Kirk
- Rambo
- Maverick
- Neo & Trinity – The Matrix
- Silk Spectre – Watchmen
We are rather short of female film heroines, so we have included a couple of ladies superhero costumes as well