We thought we should encourage a Scottish Themed costumeparty today. Over the past
Scottish Flag Morphsuit
few weeks there has been a lot of talk about the film ‘Brave’ about a feisty young Scottish chieftain’s daughter who refuses to conform. Today it goes on general release throughout the UK, so everyone can form their own opinion. Talking with other costume businesses (as we do) apparently when the film Braveheart was released back in 1995, there was a clamour of people wanting to look like Mel Gibson, (blue face paint and all), particularly if going to a movies event. Even when Props & Frocks started in business a few years later, we were having customers wanting to dress up in plaid (aka. tartan, although it hadn’t been ‘invented’ in Braveheart’s era) and look like their hero. As Brave is an animated film, only time will tell, whether it will get the same sort of reception when it comes to dressing-up. But for those of you wanting to celebrate all things Scottish, we have a range of costumes and merchandise to help, including long red/ginger curly wigs.
Here are some famous Scots you may like to base your costume on:
- JM Barrie – author of Peter Pan – wear a Victorian mens costume, or dress up as a character from Peter Pan
- Alexander Graham Bell – again another Victorian costume, ideal if you can find an old fashioned telephone as well!
- Robert Burns – Wear a Regency Style (Mr Darcy) costume
- Lord Byron, as Robert Burns
- Charles I & II – Cavalier style costume
- Sir Sean Connery – wear a dinner suit for 007
- Billy Connolly – shaggy brown hair and a dyed goatee beard
- David I – Knight costume
- Sir Alex Ferguson
- Alexander Fleming
- William Gladstone – Victorian Costume
- James I – VI – kings of Scotland (James VI first King of Scotland & England)
- Captain William Kidd – famous pirate – wear a pirate costume
- Dr David Livingstone – wear an explorer costume
- Elizabeth Bowes Lyon – The Queen Mother
- King Macbeth
- Flora Macdonald – peasant costume
- Mary Queen of Scots – ladies Tudor style costume will suffice
- Robert I (the Bruce,) II & III
- Sir Walter Scott
- Sir Jackie Stewart
- Bonnie Prince Charlie
- Sir William Wallace – Braveheart
And, if you still cannot make up your mind, just accessorise your normal everyday outfit with some tartan.