Props & Frocks Fancy Dress is well known locally for supplying quality hire costumes, all backed up with superior customer service. Our range of ladies costumes covers all shapes and sizes from a UK ladies dress size 6 to 28!  We encourage anyone who is looking through our hire costumes to ask for help if they are having trouble finding a suitable costume – we know our costumes inside out. Although, it is hard to always please everyone all of the time, using our professional knowledge of our costumes, it is very rare that we cannot help you source a costume.

Obviously, we do not have the full range of sizes in every style of costume, but our choice is vast, so please give us the chance to help you.

We only show a very limited range of our quality hire costumes on this site, so if you are local to our Essex based shop, we recommend that you pop in and have a look.

As well as offering a huge range of hire costumes, we also stock 1000s of accessories & costumes that you can purchase to keep forever. If yo have never paid us a visit, why not pop in, see our new shop layout and the range of fancy dress costumes & accessories that we stock.

You’ll be guaranteed a warm welcome!

Props & Frocks fancy dress is open 7 days a week.

Today is International Women’s Day, the 101^st year this event has been celebrated, and all around the country (and the world) various events are being held to mark the day, some political, some motivational, some supporting worthy causes and some just as a genuine excuse for a get-together (as opposed to those spurious fake excuses). Our own current (and ongoing bugbear) at Props & Frocks is the topic we mentioned a week or so back – the lack of equality when it comes to costumes: The fact that for certain themes (particularly in the superhero department) there seem far fewer female costumes than male (although females are often keener to dress-up), and that that some genius thinks that putting together a female version of a male character costume, (or for that matter, a ‘professional’ outfit in a ‘sexy’ version) is a good marketing ploy does not help. We are waiting to see sexy ‘professions’ outfits for men – waiters, secretaries and construction workers, for example (the Village People or the Full Monty uniforms are a start – the mankini is perhaps a little too much) and proper versions (as opposed to cut-down crop-top) of male costumes in female sizes. Only then can the costume playing field be truly equal!