Tag Archives: animal masks

Festival Costumes

Posted on by
Reply
Facebook

Are you looking for a costume for a summer festival? With more and more festivals encouraging fancy dress to help create a wild animal Fancy dress Ideasfun atmosphere, we ar elooking forward to a very busy time.

Take Bestival (September 6,7,8 & 9 September). This festival is really into fancy dress and this year’s theme of ‘Wild Things’ gives you lots of interesting costume suggestions including:

Lots of other festivals also encourage fancy dress, goon join in, it really makes a brilliant day even more special!

In America on this day in 1974 the Universal Product Code (early barcode) was first used. The first item to be scanned was on a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Chewing Gum. The barcode has now become an essential item for many retailers, but there are still some products that cannot be barcoded at present. For example, take our enormous range of costumes for hire. We do have our own method of stock control and although many of our sale items are online, when it comes to our hire costumes, barcoding individual items might be a touch impractical. The simple reason being, that many of the costumes in our fantastic and wide-ranging collection do not just consist of one item. Take something as simple as an Alice in Wonderland outfit, which can comprise five items to make up the costume. First of all, there is the blue dress itself, which is often partially covered by a white Victorian style apron and then there is the blue Alice headband. A suitable wig and socks might also need to be added to complete the look.  A male might want to go to a story book party as Captain Hook or a pirate. In this case, there is the shirt, trousers, coat, belt, hat, wig, hook, sword. This could give you a total of eight items for the basic costume, but then there are also additional accessories you might wish to add, such as a pirate bag (to store your cash, as many costumes do not come with pockets) rings, headbands, earring, eye-patch, pistol, etc.. Some of these accessories we might sell, rather than hire, as they may be difficult or time-consuming to clean, or could easily get lost or mislaid, and the cost of sale is such that it makes sense to do this.

Animal Costumes

Posted on by
Reply
Facebook

Last day of March and Spring is in the air (or so they say).  When it comes to this time of the year we certainly seem toAnimal Costumes get several requests for animal costumes. The most popular ones tend to be  chicks and rabbits (must be something to do with Easter) but animals of all types can be in demand and given that many such costumes are made of fur fabric, now’s a good time to be fur-clad: If the weather’s not playing it’s part, you won’t be too cold and at this time of year it is not too hot for a fur costume to be uncomfortable. Not that the heat factor puts people off – we have had people in Gorilla suits doing pub-crawls in mid-July and despite the risk that the weather might actually do what it’s supposed to when it’s supposed to. The enthusiasm for our furry costume friends does not fall off markedly during the summer months. Never let practicality and comfort get in the way of a good idea!

If wearing a full animal costume does not appeal to you, why not take a look at our huge range of animal overhead masks or animal face bops and noses to get you in the animal mood.

 

Animals fancy Dress Theme

Posted on by
Reply

Today’s fancy dress theme suggestion is animals, and the reason behind this is… Chicken Overhead Mask

Hooray, it’s Groundhog Day!

For those unfamiliar with this 1993 film, in which a weatherman keeps reliving the same day over and over again (until he finally gets it right!), the undoubted star of the show (aside from Bill Murray and Andie McDowell) is Scooter the Groundhog, who played Punxsutawney Phil.  Now, we don’t have a Groundhog costume (and we’re not even sure if anyone makes one, plus it’s a bit of a one-trick pony or should that be Groundhog?), but we do have several animal costumes that you might find in movies.

Now before, you get really creative and start thinking of specific dog breeds, unusual creatures you’ve seen in films and other animals to test us, perhaps we’d better give you a few film suggestions that we can do.

Scooby Doo the Great Dane is an obvious one, as is a Dalmatian (which naturally complements Cruella de Vil).  Both of these are cartoon based, and cartoons of course feature a wide variety of animal characters. If you start looking at the amount of films there are based around an animal theme the list can be endless. There are farmyard films such as Babe or Chicken Run, domestic animals such as Cats and Dogs, and films based around an assortment of wild animals such as Madagascar, Ice Age and the Jungle Book.

At Props n Frocks we stock a wide range of animal overhead masks that are ideal to help you to create an animal costume – all you need to do is wear a long sleeved top and trousers in the relevant colour of the animal you are portraying. We also stock a great range of animal face bob masks. These masks are ideal, especially for children, although adults can wear them as well. The wearer has full vision and can easily speak whilst wearing a face bob mask, we have found them to be very popular for school plays.

Cats Fancy Dress

Posted on by
Reply

Today we celebrate Cats as our suggested fancy dress theme. Not the long-running Lloyd-Webber musical (although that

Cat Mask

Cat Mask

 may have relevance when it comes to the costuming for this theme idea) but the fact that the film ‘Cat People’ was premiered on 6th December in 1943. It is said that there are Cat People and Dog People (remembering that Dogs have masters whilst Cats have servants), so today’s the day for the feline fan-club! Some of you may just dust off the Halloween black cat costume, and add one or two cat accessories but equally there are the Big Cats such as Lions, Leopards and Tigers to consider ( we sell a great range of face bops and full face animal masks), plus of course the various cats – male and female from the afore-mentioned musical. Alternatively there are the various incarnations of Catwoman, plus famous cats of literature such as Orlando, the Marmalade Cat (Thinks – Was Paddington a Marmalade Bear?) and Puss-in-Boots. With the help of Props n Frocks you can show that it’s not only dogs who can have their day and in the unlikely event that things do not go quite as planned you can turn it to your advantage – go as a cat-astrophe!

Fancy Dress Ideas For The 4th September

Posted on by
1

On September 4th 1893, Beatrix Potter published her first illustrated work. (How do you ‘do’ Beatrix Potter as a fancy dress costume? You dress up as Harry Potter but magically produce a few bottles of ale at some point – Beer Tricks Potter! Oh, never mind). Anyway, Potter’s work is all about rabbits, hedgehogs, ducks, frogs and other country creatures. Props n Frocks a great range of animal face masks, so why not extend the Beatrix Potter theme to an animal themed fancy dress party?

By co-incidence, this day in 1909, saw the first Boy Scout Rally, so the theme for this Saturday (weather permitting) is The Great Outdoors. Perhaps you could have a Garden themed costume Party, or just revert to that old favourite Flower Power (with a side order of Fruit and Veg – it’s the Harvest Festival season soon!). Gives you a chance to get all your hippy costumes out again!!!!

10th June 2010

Posted on by
Reply

A day for fantastical creatures.
June 10th sees the anniversary of the birth in 1928 of Maurice Sendak, illustrator and author of the children’s book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, which was recently made into a movie by Spike Jonze. On June 10th 1794 in Paris, where the wild things were was the Jardin des Plantes, a botanical museum which became one of the world’s first public zoos. Needless to say we have a wild and wonderful selection of animals (animal costumes and animal masks) with which you can hit the party circuit.

9th June 2010

Posted on by
Reply

A day for the creatives and inventors.
On June 9th 1781, George Stephenson was born. He, along with his son Robert, invented a method of harnessing steam-power to create the first commercial locomotive and develop the use of steam for other industrial machinery. On the same day in 1915 Les Paul was born. It was he who created the first solid body electric guitar and was instrumental (so to speak) in pioneering the multi-track recording techniques, which were the basis of rock and pop in the 1950s and 1960s.

Meanwhile on June 9th 1934 we see the birthday of Walt Disney’s arguably second most famous creation, Donald Fauntleroy Duck, who makes his first film appearance in a Disney short called ‘The Wise Little Hen’. Like many famous personalities, his birthdate is subject to dispute, as in a later film in which Donald had a greater starring role. ‘The Three Caballeros’, his birthday is stated as being on a Friday 13th in March. Even cartoon celebrities can be creative with the truth!

An inventors themed fancy dress party may be pushing it a bit, although keeping with the electric guitar link, this could be expanded out to Rock stars. You could also expand the Donald Duck connection to include all disney characters, or use an animal theme. At Props n Frocks we stock a great range of animal costumes and masks, rock star costumes, as well as your typical disney style characters.