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Goodies & Baddies Fancy Dress

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Goodies & Baddies is today’s fancy dress theme. As a child did you like to dress-up and play Cops and Robbers or Cowboys and Indians? If not, chances are you are one of our growing number of readers who subscribe to the more modern take on these type of themes, that of Heroes and Villains or Goodies and Baddies. The reason we were asking is because today, August 8^th marks the day of the Great Train Robbery, way back in 1963. For those of you who were not born then, such as Tennis Star Roger Federer (who celebrates his 30^th birthday today – born 1981) or were too young to remember it, this was possibly one of the most daring and audacious crimes in the UK. Probably one of the most well known of the Great Train Robbers was Ronnie Biggs, who escaped from Wandsworth prison in 1965 and then spent 30 years in exile. He was also born on this day in 1929. So, whether you want to be a Goodie or a Baddie, a Hero or a Villain, have a chat with us at Props n Frocks.

We have covered this Go0die & Baddies costume theme a few times on these blogs, so we are not going to repeat the lists we have made on previous blogs, but we suggest you take a look here for some great Goodie & Baddie Costume ideas…

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Horror Fancy Dress Theme

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Horror is today’s fancy dress theme as we look at another type of movie genre (although we’re not too sure whether the animals theme is a genre as such – any comments or thoughts welcome!). Today we’re looking at Horror films. Now you might think that Horror should be confined to Halloween, but you probably would be very surprised to find we have requests for this theme throughout the year. February 4^th marks the birth-date of film director George Romero, who was born 1939 or 1940 (depending upon source). Nicknamed Grandfather of the Zombie, his classic horror films include Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. The Zombie sub-genre has certainly taken off in the last year or so, we have a large range of Zombie costumes in stock. At Props n Frocks you’ll always find costumes to die for, so to speak.

As you can see from today’s theme title of ‘Horror’ we are not restricting this theme to film only, but why not broaden it out to include other horrors, including real life horrors such as Jack The Ripper, or bloody doctor costumes?

Other horror costume ideas include:

Freddy Krueger Costumes & accessories
Devil costumes & accessories
Adolf Hitler – please be careful that you do not upset and offend anybody
Osama Bin Laden – please be careful that you do not upset or offend anybody
Jason Costumes & accessories – from Friday The 13th
Vampire Costumes
Werewolf costumes
Witch Costumes
Scream Outfits
Horror Clown Costumes

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‘The Dark Side’ Fancy Dress Theme

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

‘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?