Nonsense Costume Ideas

Posted on July 8, 2012 by admin

As regular readers will know, all of us at Props & Frocks fancy dress live in another world where seeing people dressed up in various costumes is perfectly normal. However, we can see that from an outsiders point of view, hearing someone say ‘ can I try the head of the elephant on’ is a tiny bit weird. So we thought of having a nonsense fancy dress theme today would be appropriate. When you think about it it, a lot of our fancy dress costumes are nonsense, I mean where do you see an adult sized Monkey walking down the road having a conversation with a long dead Elvis? You see we do live in a strange world!

This costume theme could be really funny, here are some of our Nonsense Costume Ideas:

Dead Icons including; Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Amy Whinehouse etc… why not take a look at some of our Dead Icon costumes?
Superheroes – Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Silk Spectre – we have a very large selection of superhero costumes
Fantasy costumes, including; Fairies, Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolves & Aliens
Ride on costumes, we stock ride on Emus, Horses, & Dragons

Hopefully, that has got you thinking,but this costume theme is really open

We were mentioning Oxford’s Alice Day yesterday and today they are staging a caucus race For those of you who don’t know what this is, we thought we would take a few moments to enlighten you.

It has American origins (weren’t we noting earlier in the week how Americanisms are getting everywhere?) and has to do with the way several committees meet to choose political candidates for elections. Lewis Carroll was so unimpressed with this supposedly democratic but weak system of selection that in the Alice book he satirised it with a somewhat pointless race. The event was presided over by a dodo, with everyone running in circles and when they stopped, all were declared winners and given prizes. So now you know. In the meantime, needless to say, when it comes to the race for costume prizes, our customers will always be winners.

Fantasy World Costume Theme

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin

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‘Fantasy World is today’s option for a fancy dress theme. There are many ways to approach a theme such as this, and as such, you will be guaranteed a rich array of costumes.

Here are a few of our Fantasy world costume ideas to give you a starting point:

Science – Fiction – brings in all the Superhero costumes you could think of and includes costumes such as Avatar, aliens and even Buzz Lightyear.
Given a chance, who would you like to be? Marilyn, Madonna, Henry VIII or Michael Jackson? The list is really endless
Vampires, Werewolves, Frankenstein & Dracula are all part of a fantasy world
Some novelty costumes give you a ‘tongue in check’ option of larger areas of anatomy (enough said, I feel)
Maybe, you have a fantasy holiday destination, African Safari, Hawaiian Beach?
Why not dress up as a mythical creature, or God? So many to choose from from Ancient Greek, Rome up to more modern day religions
Make up your own fantasy creature, a morphsuit may be a good starting point.

Today is the birthday of author Terry Pratchett. Although he is becoming well-known for his high-profile spokesmanship on behalf of those with Alzheimer’s and related conditions, he is also the creator of Discworld. This flat world, carried through the cosmos on the backs of four elephants standing upon a giant space turtle, is populated with a rich array of characters. From time to time we have even been called upon to help recreate a few of them for the purposes of a Book Week or local fan convention. Rincewind, the inept wizard found in the earlier books, is one popular choice, but other books in the several dozen Discworld novels have involved themselves with everything from pseudo-Egyptian history, opera to the early days of movie-making in the World’s own version of Hollywood. As with the video games and comic books mentioned earlier this week, we cannot claim an encyclopaedic knowledge of every character in this fantasy world, but if you have left enough time, bring us a description and we will see what we can do to help.

Fantasy Fancy Dress Party Ideas

Posted on May 14, 2011 by admin

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Carrying on from yesterday’s leprechaun theme, we thought to take a look at ideas for fantasy costumes and parties. These can be great fun as your choice of costume is left to your imagination. Why have we picked a fantasy fancy dress theme today? Well, ten days ago we mentioned about Star Wars day (May 4^th) and today is the birthday of its creator George Lucas (born 1944), who is possibly one of the greatest movie makers of all time, having been responsible not only for the Star Wars films, but also the Indiana Jones series.

A fantasy theme can take on many guises, space is just one of them (our Space themed blog has loads of fantasy outfit ideas), adventure being another, we have also published a blog on ‘My Favourite Fantasy’ costume ideas for even more costume inspiration.

The fourth Indiana Jones film Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Crystal Skull, also starred Cate Blanchett who was also born on this day (in 1969). One of her other roles was as Galadriel in Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, another fantasy figure. Other types of fantasy suggestions also originate from books, either storybook, such as Alice and her Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, where she meets some fantastic characters, such as the Mad Hatter and White Rabbit, or comic books, where Superman, Batman, Fantastic Four and other superheroes abound.

If you are lacking in creativity or inspiration, at Props n Frocks we have a fantastic selection of off the peg fantasy hire costumes, plus a great collection of accessories and add-ons to help you create a unique look.

Don’t forget, our fantastic customer Care team are available 7 days a week if you need some professional help.

My Favourite Fantasy Fancy Dress Theme

Posted on November 13, 2010 by admin

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My Favourite Fantasy we think should be today’s fancy dress theme for November 13^th, as it was in 1940 (seventy years ago) that Disney’s Fantasia was premiered in New York City. The film was based around various works of classical music, interpreted in pictures. Amongst the offerings was Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a comic ballet (Dance of the Hours) which was performed by elephants, hippos, ostriches and alligators, plus the story of evolution, as well as the forces of dark and light. If dressing up as an animal or Disney character is not quite your idea of a fantasy, (although we can naturally accommodate both) and you would like something more exotic, come and see how Props n Frocks can help you make your dreams come true.

Thinking ‘outside of the box’ a bit, you could dress up as your own personal fantasy, this means that if you have always thought that Marilyn Monroe was the person you would have liked to have been, now is the oppportunity to dress up in a Marilyn costume.

Other costume ideas you could also use for this theme include ideas from the theme myths & legends, including fairies, Devils and mermaids, to name just a few examples. So although at first this costume theme seems quite difficult, once you start thinking about potential costumes it opens it right up to a huge amount of costumes that you could wear.