‘Over The Rainbow’ is our fancy dress theme to think about today.
It was around this date in 1939 that the tune ‘Over the Rainbow’ was copyrighted (sources differ on the exact date). This, of course, is the big musical number from ‘The Wizard of Oz’, starring Judy Garland. The song became her signature tune, yet prior to release, the song was almost cut from the film because it was felt it slowed the pace of the action. As it happened, wiser opinions prevailed and the tune went on to win an Oscar. What’s more, there have since been several ‘re-interpretations’ of the piece, notably a posthumous chart hit for Eva Cassidy and, more recently, a ukulele version which has turned up on the soundtracks of films as diverse as ‘Meet Joe Black’ and ‘Snakes on a Plane’!
Rather like its main tune, the Wizard of Oz story itself continues to fascinate. Aside from the ‘Wicked’ musical spin-off and the inevitable showings of the original film over the Festive season, some of you may have caught the sequel ‘Witches of Oz’ TV movie during the same period. Next year we have a major prequel movie ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’ so today we celebrate the land of Oz, over the rainbow or anywhere else you care to do so.
Of course, we stock all of the Wizard of Oz costumes, but you do have other costume options with this theme…
Why not wear multi coloured clothing, or use one of our coloured hairsprays to change your hair colour, the more colours the better, but make sure you do not use it on coloured hair of your hair may remain colourful for longer than you were hoping for! If in doubt about using a hairspray, why not wear one of our multi coloured wigs.
Leprechauns are also associated with a Rainbow, so this is another costume option open to you as well. What about characters from the children’s programme ‘Rainbow’ George, Zippy, Bungle & of course, Jeffrey’. And for those of you with artistic skill why not dress up as rain & sunshine, the 2 ingredients that produce a rainbow?
Use lots of bright colours to theme your function room, a great costume theme for a dull January day.
