We often find people wanting to have Superhero, Heroes & Villains or Goodies and Baddies fancy dress parties in May. Take a look at some of these other Heroes & Villains blogs
One thing you may notice about many of the costumes available, particularly the superhero ones is that are all very similar. This is to do with licenses and copyright. A few of the bigger names in the costume manufacturing world, will pay for a licence to produce costumes for a particular film, character, etc.. Often these can be for older films rather than newer ones, as many companies find it difficult to produce the costumes when the film is out in cinemas.
Most costumes for these types of parties, (particularly the Superheroes theme) tend to be character costumes, such as Batman, Robin, Superman, Spiderman, Supergirl, Lara Croft, etc.. However there are some generic costumes that will also fit the bill such as gangsters and molls, angels and devils, etc…
You do not need to be restricted to superhero costumes for this theme, why not also look at the following as it may give you some other great costume ideas…
Real Life Villains – Infamous criminal (Jack The Ripper) or a bog standard prisoner costume
Real Life Heroes – Mother Teresa, Doctors & Nurse, all the armed services
Film / Book Villains – Freddy Krueger, Wicked Witch Of The West
Film / Book Heroes – Indiana Jones, James Bond
Cartoon Heroes – Popeye
Fantasy Villains – Devils, Vampires, Witches
Fantasy Heroes – Fairy Godmother, Angels
Childhood hero, just who was your childhood hero? Maybe a teacher or a pop star?
Today our fancy dress theme is Saints & Sinners as it was on this day in 1907 Leslie Charteris was born.
Who? Possibly not so well known (or widely read) as he used to be, Charteris created the book character ‘The Saint’. It was the TV adaptations of these books during the 1960s that arguably helped Roger Moore attract the stardom that would lead him to play James Bond. Although The Saint wasn’t a secret agent, he shared many similar characteristics with 007. Past experience has shown that declaring an excuse for a James Bond event is not always popular (even though we have produced our own in-house James Bond character information sheet) so how about ‘Saints and Sinners’ instead?
Saints and Sinners could also be called ‘Heroes & Villains’, ‘Goodies & Baddies’, ‘Good or Evil’, but these are all basically the same type of fancy dress party. We have some great Baddie Costume ideas on the blog, and also some hero costumes as well. another version of this theme would be ‘The Good, the Bad & The Ugly!’
One person’s idea of a sinner, is another’s Saint, so this costume theme is open to interpretation. All we would say is, be careful and do not offend anyone by dressing up in a costume that may not be politically correct (unless you are happy that the guests at the party will not mind).
Here are some of our ideas for Saint Costumes…
Dress up as a golfer, winner at St. Andrews
Father Christmas – St. Nicholas
Southampton (The Saints) Football player
Mother Teresa – nun outfit
Nurse Costumes – we have some great ladies sexy nurse outfits
Doctors – we stock a great range of accessories & costumes
Now today, March 21st we could suggest a Heroes and Villains fancy dress theme as both Timothy Dalton and GaryOldman were born on March 21st, in 1946 & 1958 respectively. Timothy Dalton’s best known heroic role is probably as James Bond in the films A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights. Although Gary Oldman may have gravitated more to the villainous side, with his performance as Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film and Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in the Fifth Element, his recent roles as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films and commissioner Gordon in Batman films The Dark Knight and the forthcoming Dark Night Rises (due 2012) may redress the balance. Whatever your take on Heroes and Villains, you can be sure at Props N Frocks we have something for everyone, whether you want to stay in the light or head over to the dark side.
Now, in some of our other hubs, we have given you a huge range of hero and villain costumes to choose from take a look at some of them here…
Today we’re suggesting another Heroes and Villains fancy dress event in honour of the fact that both Glenn Close (1947) and Bruce Willis (1955) have their birthdays today. Glenn Close may be best remembered for villainous roles such as the ‘bunny-boiler’ mistress Alex Forrest in ‘Fatal Attraction’ and as Cruella de Vil in two live-action films based on the 101 Dalmatians story, but she has a far wider repertoire, including an American Vice-President (Air Force One) and an American President’s wife (Mars Attacks). On the other hand Bruce Willis, who started his movie career as a bar-tender (having been ‘scouted’ whilst doing it for real) has almost always played action heroes (or antiheroes), although he’s not been adverse to taking a few uncredited bit-parts or cameo roles.
It might be argued that there are not that many action heroes available for females – Lara Croft and Beatrice ‘The Bride’ Kitto (Kill Bill) are about it, but 2011 promises to change all that with some interesting movies featuring feisty females (and, of course, associated costumes) in the pipeline. ‘Stay tuned’ for details.
We have previously written a lot of blogs regarding costume ideas for heroes & villains, so rather than repeat them, here is a link to our heroes costume ideas & here are some of our previous villain costume ideas …
Today we return to a Heroes and Villains fancy dress theme – well actually just Villains, as today is the 65th birthday of Alan Rickman, who has been cast in the role of villain for TV, film and stage. Possibly the role for which he is currently best known is as Professor Severus Snape of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter films, but others will remember him as Hans Gruber in the first of the ‘Die Hard’ films. Despite his usually being cast as a villain (he was the Sheriff of Nottingham who ‘cancelled Christmas’ in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves’), Rickman has great versatility and is remarkable for his deadpan dry humour – his role as the English thespian Alexander Dane playing a ‘Mr Spock-style’ alien in the Sci-Fi comedy ‘Galaxy Quest’ is classic. He was also the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the movie version of ‘Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ – in our opinion one of its few redeeming features. So today’s theme is Classic Villains for, as someone once said, it’s nice to be wicked for once.
Now your idea of a villains may be completely different to someone else, so our costume ideas are purely subjective. You can look for costume inspiration from numerous film villains.
‘The Dark Side’ is our fancy dress suggestion for today & this will really get your brain cells working. We have choosen this costume theme today as several events in history on January 16th show major turning points and upsets.
For instance in 550, during the final days of the Gothic Wars, the Ostragoths succeeded in penetrating Rome’s defences and undermine the whole basis of the hitherto great Roman Empire.
In 1770, the Scottish Parliament ratified the Act of Union, which would lead to the eventual creation of Great Britain, and thus the basis of the British Empire. In 1945 Adolf Hitler began to realise that the tide of the Second World War was now turned against him and, entering his Führerbunker shelter, started issuing increasingly desperate orders, including a scorched earth policy to destroy Germany’s infrastructure because ‘if it could not win, it did not deserve to survive’.
If all that’s a little too heavy, but you still want to celebrate the Darkside, there’s the fact that today in 1948 the American director John Carpenter was born. His work spans everything from the quirky ‘Dark Star’ (the crew of a space-ship get bored blowing up planets) to the horror-flicks ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Fog’ and the dystopian (it means ‘dismal future’) ‘Escape from New York’. Go Goth, go Dark, go down to Props n Frocks – we have a scarily amazing array of costumes to kit out your darkest desires.
So what Dark Side costumes can we offer you today?
