Animated Character Costumes

Posted on November 28, 2012 by admin

Animation is a great fancy dress theme with plenty of costume potential.

Scooby Doo Costume

Take your Animated costume inspiration from:

Cartoons
Animated films such as Shrek or Toy Story
Comic Books

Take a look at our costume theme and ideas section on this website,it has plenty of animation costume ideas for you to have a look at.

A new animation is due to hit the big screen this week called Rise of the Guardians. Without giving too much away, it is one of those ‘ensemble’ films where, in the manner of the Avengers, seen Assembling to good effect earlier this year, a group of individuals (in this case childhood entities such as The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy and Jack Frost (plus Santa)) join forces to see off an evil entity. A notable feature is that some of these supposedly ‘Good’ characters display aspects of the darker sides of their personalities. This is entirely in keeping with the dual concept of wickedness – amazingly good on the one hand, evil on the other. It also brings to mind something/one we were mentioning last week in connection with the arrival of Santa Claus on the Continent, but that’s a story for next week…

Cartoon Character Costumes

Posted on November 26, 2012 by admin

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Cartoon Characters is a great fancy dress theme, and gives you & your guests a full

Superman – THE ultimate Comic Book Character

range of costumes to choose from.

So whether you want to dress up in a Fred Flintstone costume, a comic book character such as Batman, or something from a more recent film such as a Toy Story Costume, we really do have it all. And for lots of great Cartoon Character Costume ideas, take a look at our themes and ideas section of this site which will help you whatever your chosen costume theme is.

Today would have been the 90^th birthday of Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts cartoon strip. Unfortunately he passed away in early 2000, but the characters live on: He was so devoted to his creations that he did not use anyone else to help create his cartoons, and the only time there were repeats of strips during his lifetime, was during the one vacation holiday he took in 1997 to celebrate his birthday. He retired due to illness in December 1999, but because he drew the strips several weeks in advance, the last ever original Peanuts cartoon was published the day after his death on February 13^th the following year. Despite the commercial opportunities of the characters, Schulz’s request to maintain their integrity has been respected. Such was the volume of his output (he drew over 18,000 strips) that we can still enjoy the exploits of Charlie Brown and his friends – if they are not in your newspaper, you can find them on the web. Needless to say, Snoopy has his own Facebook whilst, yes, Woodstock is on Twitter. As someone might say – Good grief! Today might be a good opportunity to celebrate cartoon characters.

Cartoon Characters Fancy Dress

Posted on November 21, 2012 by admin

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Today’s costume theme is Cartoon Characters.

Fred Flintstone Costume

We have a huge list of Cartoon Character Costume ideas in our costume Themes & Ideas section of this website. The lists are split down into smaller groups for easier navigation but you should be able to get your costume inspiration from there.

Take a look at the range of Cartoon Costumes that Props & Frocks can supply, from Mens Cartoon Costumes such as Fred Flintstone and ladies Cartoon costumes including The Queen of Hearts & Cruella de Vil. Our large deluxe hire costumes also offer a wide selection of cartoon character ideas

Today we thought we would take a flutter down memory lane and revisit those cartoon memories of yesteryear. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (unless of course you are in the copyright or patent business, in which case you are probably looking to protect your intellectual property) but in this instance we are looking at the arrival of Tweety Bird on the cartoon scene, back on this day in 1942. ‘A tale of Two Kitties’ was the first ‘short’ to feature this yellow canary, and not only was it a pun on Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, but it was also a take-off of the popular US comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, played by pussycats Babbit and Catstello.

Tweety Bird was renamed Tweety Pie in 1948 and nowadays, many of the Warner Bros cartoon characters have become household names. The cartoon theme is also becoming a popular party choice. We mentioned earlier about intellectual property and this is one area where franchising and licensing are key. If you are organising or attending a cartoon party, please be aware that the costumes around for this party theme, will in the main be officially licensed ones, i.e. manufactured by one company, but available from a variety of sources. This can mean that you may end up in the same costume as someone else. So, if you are looking for a theme that offers individuals the opportunity to improvise a character this might not be the right one for you.

Alternatively, you can always extend the range of the costumes to include anything Cartoon so that brings into the mix Disney Characters including Toy Story characters and TV cartoon characters such as Peppa Pig

Cartoon Characters Fancy Dress Theme

Posted on September 24, 2011 by admin

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Today, we celebrate everything cartoon with our Cartoon costume theme.

Here are some of Props n Frocks cartoon costume ideas….

Spongebob
Bugs Bunny
Batman
The Flintstones – we stock the entire range of Flintstone Costumes
Robin
Wonder Woman
Mickey Mouse
Minnie Mouse
Where’s Wally
The Pink Panther
Betty Boop
The Simpsons
Jessica Rabbit
Peter Pan
Tinker Bell
Captain Hook
Donald Duck
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
The Little Mermaid
Popeye
Scooby Doo – we stock the range of Scooby Doo Costumes – an ideal couple costume idea
Toy Story
Shrek – this has a whole host of different characters to use for a costume

Take a look at our range of Cartoon Character costumes, but it is also worth your while looking at our range of superhero costumes as many of these have been cartoon in either comic books or on the television.

Today would have been the 75^th birthday of Jim Henson, Creator of the Muppets had he not sadly passed away back in 1990, at the age of just 53. Disney purchased the Muppets back in 2004 and in the US this November there will be the first Muppets Movie for over a decade. Unfortunately, in the UK it is not due for release until February 2012. You do not have to be a Muppet when it comes to costumes, and in fact with only two official costumes currently out there (Kermit and Miss Piggy) there is not much potential for a Muppet theme. Broaden it out to Cartoon Characters and here at propsnfrocks there are a whole host of suitable costumes for you to choose.

That’s all folks!

Cartoon Characters Fancy Dress

Posted on August 9, 2011 by admin

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Cartoon characters is today’s fancy dress theme as we celebrate the début of a screen star who is as popular today as she was back in the 1930s. It was on this date in 1950 that Betty Boop made her first appearance in a cartoon called ‘Dizzy Dishes’. She was not actually the star of the short film – she was a French poodle-like performer who was appearing with a chorus line of flapper cats in a club – but she made an impact on the central character and went onto evolve a film career in her own right. Being a cartoon character, she was able to be more risqué than a ‘live’ performer could be. She became something of a sex symbol, dressed in short skirts and heels and reminding people of the carefree Jazz Age of the Twenties with her flapper-like looks. She was also associated with the ‘Minnie the Moocher’ song by Cab Calloway, appearing in a film of that name about a runaway teenager. The theme for today is Cartoon Characters.

We stock a huge range of Cartoon Fancy Dress Ideas – why not take a look at our fantastic range? It is a great theme for couples and groups, with lots of costume choices.

Cartoon Characters Fancy Dress Theme

Posted on May 18, 2011 by admin

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Cartoon Characters is today’s fancy dress theme. As regular readers of this blog will know, we do try and look at what has happened on this day, in days gone by for our costume inspiration. Today the Austrian musician Gustav Mahler, born 1860, died 100 years ago today, aged 50, but we are a little at a loss to find a suitable theme – Great Composers? (Or, if they are dead, Great De-Composers- a sort of zombie theme) So instead we will note the passing of one of those often unsung ‘behind the scenes’ people – Daws Butler. Daws, who died this day in 1988, was the voice of many well-known characters from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studios, including Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss and Yogi Bear. He was also the voice of Woody Woodpecker for a time and in the 1950s collaborated with the American comedian Stan Freberg on spoofs based on the TV series Dragnet – ‘St George and the Dragon-net’ (which was the first comedy record to sell over a million copies) and ‘Little Blue Riding Hood’, both of which you can find on YouTube.

If you need a fancy dress theme, how about ‘Cartoon Karaoke’? Huckleberry Hound regularly sung ‘Darlin’ Clemetine’ and there are some memorable tunes in many cartoons and animated features – even a few specialist DVDs and gaming programmes to help! If that is too difficult, just leave it as Cartoon characters…

Some great Cartoon Characters Costume Ideas:

The Flintstones
Popeye
Scooby Doo & his gang
Toy Story
Snow White
Cinderella
Belle from Beauty & The Beast
Shrek – this gives loads of potential costume ideas (Puss In Boots, Prince Charming, Princess Fiona, Pinocchio etc…)
Bugs Bunny
Sonic the Hedgehog and other gaming characters such as the Mario brothers
Comic Book characters such as Superman started off life as cartoons before making it big on the big screen

Childhood Memories Fancy Dress Theme

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

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Childhood Memories is what today’s fancy dress theme is all about…

Take a look at this previous blog as it will give you some great childhood memories costume ideas

As we have mentioned in previous blogs, in these days of mass media and 24 hour TV it is difficult to remember that at one stage there was only BBC & ITV. Today marks the day that BBC2 ran its first TV programme which was Play School (this ran from 1964 until 1982). The channel had originally intended to launch the previous evening, but a mass power failure throughout Central and West London (which included Television Centre) meant plans were scuppered.

Now we hope if you are holding an event over the next week or so, that everything will run smoothly and it is not beset with such difficulties. In honour of Play School, we thought we might mention a few characters from children’s TV of yesteryear, so today we take a look through the round window. (If you have never seen the programme, this might not mean much to you!).

From Play School itself, there was Humpty Dumpty (very topical for Easter); Jemima the Rag Doll; Big Ted and Little Ted and the much hated Doll Hamble.

Other childhood memories that could give you costume inspiration include:

Andy Pandy
Looby Loo
Pink Panther
Scooby Doo
Bill & Ben
Thunderbirds
Morph. Morphsuits are the BIG thing in fancy dress at the moment

You may also remember your baby brother or sister, so why not dress up as a baby, or maybe a Scout, costumes are available.

What books, or comics, were you reading? What hobbies did you have? Take a trip back down memory lane and you may be surprised what you end up being dressed up in!