Fancy Dress Ideas

by Helen Evans

If you are trying to come up with costume ideas, then believe it or not, your own ideas will be your greatest input. Unless you like parting with your cash, there is no need for you to buy or rent a costume. By using your imagination, maybe some lateral thinking, you can come up with a unique costume idea. Firstly, you will need to know the theme of the party. A jazzy, glitzy costume won’t suit a formal dinner. Likewise, turning up to a hip-hop party, attired in a stiff-collared formal dress will be inappropriate.

If you are going to a custom party or ball you can let your imagination run wild and have fun with your costume idea. You can go as Pinocchio and have a cardboard pencil nose tied with a skin or white coloured elastic band. If you are a heavier built person you can pain yourself blue and go as Genie from Aladdin. However, if you are going to a ball that needs periodic style costumes you can choose your favourite person in history and dress as them.

Be imaginative, innovative, and creative with your fancy dress costume. You can even go rummaging through your closet and find the perfect combination of your clothing to have a great costume. You can post a really funny message on an ordinary T-shirt for events like baseball games. You can also portray a klutzy look by wearing clothes that do not match or two different coloured socks.

Ever had a bit of fun with your children’s watercolour tubes? Dress them up in an ordinary shirt and jeans. Then draw a moustache and give them a hat and holster. Then just sit back and watch them enjoying playing cowboys. Costumes can be a powerful visual aid to raise awareness on certain issues.

Take for instance eating healthy food. Dressing up a child as a tomato or another vegetable and then explaining the benefits of eating fresh vegetables will get the message across in an entertaining way. This is often better than reading some boring old textbook.

Costume ideas can also represent how you are and what you like as a person. If you are someone who loved the Disco era then choose or make a costume that would reflect that time period. If you love the renaissance then make or choose a costume that would represent that particular look of the period. On the other hand if you are wild and crazy at heart choose a costume that reflects just how crazy you can be. You can plan costumes for all occasions. Do not go and buy any more ready-made costumes and expensive dress clothing to make an impression make your own.

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