Today’s fancy dress theme is Space, past, Present & Future. It’s a chance to let your imagination run wild. This type of theme always overlaps with sci-fi, which then incorporates our superhero costumes as well.
Hippy Costume - wear wacky weed, smoke a fake spliff, and go as ‘spaced out’
Space – just wear black circles and go as a Black hole, or space itself
Morphsuits – make a great spacelike costume – we stock a huge range all year round
And here are some of our moon costume ideas…
Dark Side Of The Moon – wear all black
Eclipse – this gives a chance to wear a Twilight character costume
Walking On The Moon – What about wearing a Police outfit (get it?)
Werewolf costumes
Fly Me to The Moon – wear a pilot’s costume with a ticket to the moon
Harvest Moon
Moonpig – wear a pig costume carrying a moon
It was fifty years ago today that the first US rocket, the Ranger IV, landed on the moon. It was, of course, a major achievement for its time, but the event was not a total success. Whilst we say that it ‘landed’, it actually crashed into the surface on the dark side, and because of an electrical failure soon after the launch, the plans to have the probe taking pictures of the moon surface could not therefore be achieved. Nonetheless, this was the starting point of the project to get a man on the moon, which was, of course, accomplished only five years later, so following on from yesterday’s Fantastic Future theme, today is the day to celebrate Space, past, present and future (cue the Star Wars music).
We celebrate the anniversary of the start of Star Trek on September 8th 1966. Although the series is now legendary and spawned several spin-offs and movies, it almost didn’t make it to the screen – not only did Gene Roddenbury, its creator, have to make two pilot shows (the TV executives were unhappy with Spock’s devil-like ears) but he also had problems creating the ‘look’ of the programme: Props people weren’t sure how to create sufficiently futuristic flora, fauna and buildings, and when it came to aliens, whilst screen testing the green-skinned Orion Slave Girl who featured in the early test episodes, the technicians in the film lab turned her ‘pink’ again because they thought there was a fault on the film.
Unfortunately because Star Trek is a franchise with licensed costumes, only outfits from the most recent ‘relaunch’ film are available, (although there is a sequel in the pipeline, due out next year). Take a look at our Star Trek Costumes. Not that we or our creative clientèle are going to let a little thing like that get in our way – we have plenty of space-wear for both earthlings and aliens, so there’s no excuse not to boldly embrace a Space or Futuristic Fashions theme
A Space Fancy Dress is a must today as it marks a landmark date of the Sixties today, as Apollo 11 makes a landing in the Sea of Tranquillity and fulfils President Kennedy’s promise to have a man on the Moon, by the end of the decade. The craft landed at 20.17.40 Universal Time and there are those who remember watching the whole event on TV in the early hours in Britain. (There was a delay between the landing and the famous first moon-walk). There are others who still claim that the whole thing was a hoax, but some people are never satisfied! Anyway, Space is an obvious theme choice for today and of course there are plenty of space ‘styles’ to choose from: There are NASA replica spacesuits on the market, but they are not ideal party wear and you are probably better working with old favourites such as Star Trek, Star Wars or improvising your own futuristic fashion.
There is a fine line between Space & Sci-Fi, so you could also bring in some of our Superhero costumes which will help you with what could be a limited range of costumes otherwise…
fi, which then incorporates our superhero costumes as well.
