Fancy Dress Ideas for Cheap Dress Up Parties
I don’t know if your friend’s are like this, but mine are obsessed with fancy dress parties. Over the past few years, I’ve been a panda, a groupie and a fairy. There was one rather awkward occasion where attendees had to dress as the host.
Unfortunately the host had rather poor taste in clothes, and every partygoer was confronted with the horrific decision of whether he would take any allusions to his style of dress in good spirits.
Infamous (Cheap) Fancy Dress Costumes
Nudity
Is indeed not a costume, but can be used to great effect for Rock Star themes or Sports themed parties (as a Streaker). It can also be employed with great authenticity at Porn Star parties.
(Not So) Schoolgirl
To me, school themes imply that I should wear my hair in an unbecoming fashion and try and recreate The Acne Years, but seems to imply to most attendees that the skirts should be very short and men shouldn’t wear shirts, only ties. It’s very cheap, and leaves me to ponder what my schools days might have been like in a better world.
The Joker
Couldn’t get more infamous, couldn’t get cheaper. All that’s required is three dollar face paint from Go Lo and a moratorium on shampooing your hair for a couple of days and you are in business. Will work in a variety of contexts; Heroes and Villains, Movie Killers or Comic Books parties.
Bonnie or Clyde
For gents, it’s a suit and a trilby. For the gals, it’s a beret and a blonde wig. Be sure to drawl in very exaggerated accents and wave around your cardboard gun with aplomb. Unfortunately, dressing up as Australia’s infamous icon would require wearing eighty kilos of metal, including a helmet, so instead we must emulate America’s infamous icons.
Infamous (Cheap) Fancy Dress Themes
What did you want to be when you were young?
A theme that suits any age, and has a lot of infamous potential. This can mean anything from the tame, such as a fireman or a ballerina, through to childish desires to be a benevolent dictator or Darth Vader’s protégé.
An Animal Party
Go as your favourite animal. This can be interpreted at will. What animal represents you? Or what animal do you wish you were? I went as a panda the last time this was held, because I would really like to sit around all day and chew bamboo. I also choose it because, while I am not extinct, I am very unique. The theme in itself is innocent, but the party can get quite infamous when someone decides to start acting like their animal.
A Pollies Party
Not necessarily infamous, but no one is going to dress as a politician they really admire. Far more likely are several Ronald Reagans or Hillary Clintons (depending on your political persuasion). This party theme comes with a warning, as things can tend to get rather heated. While an excellent theme for an election night, be warned of the potential dangers of this theme.
Villains are essentially much more fun to dress up as than heroes, so it’s not surprising that the villainous themes tend to appeal much more to partygoers. But there are pitfalls. We should take heed and learn from the actions of a certain disgraced Prince of England; sometimes a villain is a villain and that’s all there is to it.
Your favourite infamous outfit?
And how do you create it cheaply?
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