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
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 …
Yesterday, we looked at heroes fancy dress theme and today we encompass villains as well. Why? Well, January30th 1931 is the 80th birthday of the actor Gene Hackman. Famed for playing both heroes and villains, his film career spanned four decades. The French Connection, where he won the Oscar for Best Actor is probably his best known film, but other ones include, Superman & Superman II (as Lex Luthor) Get Shorty (with John Travolta) and Unforgiven, where he won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. So, whatever the hero or nemesis, contact us to find out how we can help you create it.
Cruella – we stock Cruella style costumes, as well as a large range of Cruella accessories including wigs, gloves and cigarette holders.
Captain Hook (Villain) Pirate Captain costumes available to hire and purchase.
Devil. We stock a huge range of Devil accessories to create this outfit. We also stock a great range of bad fairy accessories including black fairy wings and black halos.
Superhero Baddies, including The Joker
Fairytale Book Characters – These stories normally follow a good versus evil situation so use a character from your favourite fairytales. Villains include: Jafar (Alladin), Bad Fairy / Witches, Wicked Queens, Wicked Witch of The West
Horror Films – These give a wide range of nasty characters including: Freddie Krueger, Jason , Silence Of The Lambs, Dracula
Real Life Villains – Convict costumes as well as outfits based on ‘real criminals’ such as Jack The Ripper (wear a victorian costume)
Vampires & Werewolves – very popular at the moment, especially with The Twilight Saga
Film Baddies – So many to mention, here are a few ideas for you. Darth Vader, Mike Myers (Halloween series), Hannibal Lector, witch witch (Chronicles of Narnia), Silas (DeVinci Code)
‘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?
