Monday, December 7th, 2009 at
12:32 pm
October 31st is Halloween. It’s becoming as popular in the UK as it is in the USA. Halloween fancy dress costumes are traditionally witches, ghosts and all things that go bump in the night.
Blacks, purples and greens dominate Halloween fancy dress costumes and you can also wear white for brides of Dracula or vampire brides. Use a white long dress and face make-up for a ghostly bride look. Wedding dresses make great Halloween fancy dress costumes so if you have your wedding dress tucked away just whiten your face with stage make-up, wear vampire teeth and fake blood to become a vampire bride for the night. If you still have your veil and tiara this looks excellent to finish it off.
Decide what impact you want to have when you walk into the room. Then you can look at Halloween fancy dress costumes. Do you want heads to turn? Do you want to look sexy, devilish, funny or impish? Choose your outfit and then go to the accessories to choose make-up, wigs, masks and facial hair.
Witchy Halloween fancy dress costumes include accessories of long hair wigs, stripey tights with black shoes, a broomstick and a tall pointed hat. If you have a broom hanging around the broom closet then you can take this with you!
Children go from door to door trick or treating. Participating houses will have a good stock of goodies to fill the children’s Halloween bags. These will be chocolates, sweets or fruit. Some houses will even give money if they haven’t had time to stock up on Halloween supplies.
But if you don’t want to go to a party have a look through your Halloween fancy dress costumes and wear one when you answer the door to the trick or treaters. Its great fun and the kids love it. But make sure it’s not too scary!
If Halloween isn’t your thing buy a sign to put up in your window to let people know you don’t welcome any trick or treating.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at
12:25 pm
When it comes to your children, dressing up is second nature. Fancy dress costumes have always been a lot of fun for kids, because they allow kids to become someone else and to really play pretend. If you are looking for great fancy dress costumes for your kids, you are in luck, because there are so many of them out there that you can choose from. Fancy Dress CostumesUsually, fancy dress costumes are fun costume that are really dressy and up scale. These can include fancy dresses for the girls, along with long gloves, high heels, and pretty hats. Don’t forget plenty of great jewelry as well. For boys, you can do fancy suits, and high hats, as well as canes, monocles, and other accessories that they might want to dress up in. There are other types of fancy dress costumes that you might want to pick for your kids. First of all, you might want to have them dress up in another time period entirely. This can be dresses and outfits from the renaissance, or from other periods in time. The Victorian age is a great one to choose, simply because of all of the great fancy dress costumes that are available from that time period. It seems like no matter what type of fancy dress you might want to go with, there are going to be fun and exciting costumes that are available for you to choose from. No matter what, you are going to be able to have your kids looking just as great as you might want them to look. Another important thing to remember when it comes to the types of fancy dress costumes that are available for kids is that with the fancy dress costumes, kids can really let their imaginations go, and can be as excited and as happy as possible while they are playing. Kids who engage in creative activity, like fancy dress costumes, are going to be more creative in the rest of their lives, and are going to be better at problem solving and at other creative activities. Engaging a kid’s mind by allowing them to explore lots of different possibilities when it comes to fancy dress up clothes is only the first step in having engaging and creative children. Kids can be just about anything they would like to be with fancy dress clothes. You can take your own old clothes and make them into fancy dress clothes and you don’t even have to worry about making changes to them. Boys and girls love to have fancy dress up clothes, and just about anything would work for great outfit ideas.