In 1967 the Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ premiered on this day.  This was the first Bond film to have a story different from that of the book of the same name and the last to feature Sean Connery until he was lured back for ‘Diamonds Are Forever’. Knowing that a Bond theme doesn’t always have people shaken and/or stirred (although if you do follow the link, we do offer you a great range of Bond costume ideas), we thought we’d work on the whole ‘alter ego’ persona concept. Obviously the idea of costuming is to help you create a new you – sometimes this may be you recreating a film or book character, sometimes it may be you doing your own creative thing to come up with something/someone totally original. In these cash-strapped times, this may have the benefit of being cheaper and you don’t run the risk of someone turning up in the same costume – as we saw at the Royal Wedding, three women managed to turn up in identical outfits, and chances are those didn’t come from the Internet!

Here at Props n Frocks, in our fancy dress shop, whilst we pride ourselves on having an outstanding selection of costumes and accessories, many of them originals not to be found elsewhere, we are equally keen to help those who just want the odd few items or hard-to-find props, in order to complete their alternative identity.

So, basically for an Alta Ego fancy dress theme, you can basically do as much, or as little as you want. A fancy dress wig could be enough if you don’t want to spend, or do, too much, or you could look at some of the spoof films that have been made such as Austin Powers and Scarey Movie.