Today, we celebrate ‘Great Women Of History’ with our fancy dress theme…
The last Bank Holiday Monday until August, and next year this Holiday is moving to the following week (early June) as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Meanwhile, looking back to the days before Bank Holidays were invented (1871, since you ask), there are a few significant events in history which occurred on this date. In 1341, during the Hundred Years War with France, Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake by the English. Although her crime was heresy, this was apparently more to do with the fact that she refused to wear female clothing than that she claimed to hear God. On this date in 1536 Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, lady-in-waiting to his previous two wives. Given Henry’s track record you would have thought she would be wary, but as it happens, she was not executed but unfortunately died following the birth of her son, the future Edward VI. She was the only one of Henry’s wives to receive an official funeral. In honour of these two ladies, we thought a ‘Great Woman of History’ theme was appropriate.
But what do we do with the boys? Well, you can either encourage the men to go as a Great woman’s (better?) half, or for the men who are ‘really up for it’, why not go as one of these ‘Great Women’ themselves…
So, here are a few Great women of History’ Costume Ideas…
- Mother Teresa – Nun Costume – ideal for men and women
- Margaret Thatcher, you may not believe in her politics but she was our first, and only (up to this date) female Prime Minister
- The Queen – Overhead mask available
- Queen Victoria – wear a Vicrotian Costume
- Emmeline Pankhurst -who campaigned for the right for women to vote – Edwardian costume
- Boudica – Roman style robes
- Eva Peron – 40s /50s costumes
- Joan of Arc – knight style costume
- Florence Nightingale – Victorian style dress with pinafore and lace head covering
- Cleopatra – Egyptian Costume
- Catherine The Great – Georgian style costume
- Amelia Earhart – Biggles style costume
- Jane Austen – Regency style costume
- Marie Antoinette – Georgian style costumes
- Anne Frank – 40s costume
- Pocahontas – Native Indian costume
- Queen Elizabeth I – Elizabethan costume
- Indira Gandhi – Indian Costume
- Nefertiti – Egyptian costumes