FancyDress

1920s Flapper Fancy Dress – A look at a complete 1920s flapper costume for ladies, which costs less than £50 including accessories. This is then followed by a couple of extra accessories for a costume that costs less than £75. Please note that the outfit and all the accessories reviewed have been sourced from the same supplier in order to save you money on post and packaging. Ladies Sub £50: 1). Dress The Adult Flapper Costume is a 1920s flapper fancy dress outfit based around a short... Read Full Story

1920s Gangster Fancy Dress Complete Outfit – Here we look at gangster fancy dress costumes that come in at under £50. This is followed by extra accessories for an outfit that costs less than £75. Please note that the costume and all accessories have been sourced from the same supplier in order to save on post and packaging. Mens Sub £50: 1). Suit (which includes a jacket, trousers and a dickey with tie) The adult Gangster Suit is a 1920s gangster fancy dress outfit that is based around... Read Full Story

Gothic vampire fancy dress outfits really are an elegant type of vampire costume. Below we take a look at different types of Gothic vampire costumes: Dark Vampire Outfit The Dark Vampire outfit provides you with a subtle, but nonethless blood-thirsty look that is just perfect for any Halloween party. Based around a long jacket and a gothic neck-piece, all you need to do is add some black and grey facepaints to achieve the living dead look. Click on the image for a closer look at the Dark... Read Full Story

Vampire Halloween outfits are of course one of the most well loved costumes at Halloween  and below we look at 3 different vampire costumes for Halloween that we believe will look awesome at the party. Contemporary Toons Dracula Outfit The Contemporary Toons Dracula costume is just perfect to take the kids out Trick or Treating in.   Based arund a long purple jacket that has a white cravat style front, the vampire Halloween outfit also comes with a pair of matching purple trousers that have a... Read Full Story

There is no doubt that Dracula fancy dress outfits are one of the most popular types of traditional costumes for Halloween. Till Death Do Us Part Costume This Dracula fancy dress outfit is really quite original outfit and is bound to turn heads at the Halloween party. With a Dracula fancy dress outfit to the front and a Bride of Dracula costume to the rear, this novelty vampire costume will have everyone talking at the party. Click here for more info about the Till Death Do Us Part costume... Read Full Story

Adult Fab 50s Costume Adult Fab 1950s Fancy Dress Costume This great rock n roll fancy dress costume includes a black and white polka dot fifties dress with an attached jacket and sequin belt. The red attached jacket also has a poodle motif on the right hand side. Sizes for this costume are: Standard: Dress Size 10 – 12 The must have accessory for this 1950s fancy dress costume are the Jewelled Rock N’ Roll Fifties Style Sunglasses. If you want to stand out from the crowd, we would also... Read Full Story

Grease is a 1978 film about life and love in a high school in the fifties, staring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It is of course famous for its great musical numbers, but perhaps equally remembered for the fashion of the day, in particular the T-Birds and Pink Ladies costumes. The film is a very popular choice for fancy dress as it seems to sum up 50’s fancy dress perfectly, whether it be the greasers style of the T-Birds or Pink Ladies fancy dress, or the preppies style of Sandy... Read Full Story

Elvis Aaron Presley, commonly known as Elvis, began his career in the fifties and went on to be one of the biggest rock stars of all time. It is no surprise then that Elvis Fancy Dress Costumes are one of the most popular male outfits at fancy dress parties. Adult Licensed Elvis Costume Adult Licensed Elvis Costume Our recommended choice for Elvis fancy dress is this licensed costume, which includes a white shirt with sequins that is worn as a pullover, matching flared trousers, a... Read Full Story

When we think of a woman of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ it is likely that we are picturing a 1920’s flapper. Flappers emerged on the scene about 1926 and the fashion embraced all the modern styles of the day. A flapper normally had short hair, a shorter than average dress that exposed her limbs, was heavily made up and smoked with a long cigarette holder. She was the epitome of a young girl who danced the nights away during the Jazz Age. No wonder flapper fancy dress is so popular! Adult... Read Full Story

In the 1920’s a large percentage of ladies were capable and willing to make their own dresses. They would be able to make their dress in the styles and colours that they wanted, whether it was a dress to go out to dinner on a date, or one to strut their stuff on the dance floor. Making your own dress quickly by yourself really came to the fore in 1924, when a certain Mary Brooks Picken of the Woman’s Institute developed a method of making an attractive 1920’s dress in less than an hour... Read Full Story