Love Life, Love Fancy Dress.

Archive for October, 2009

This is a great Youtube video about how to make a Halloween pumpkin

1. That you can make your own costume and it will be great - Yeah - sure! Maybe it was true in the days of sticky back plastic and smug presenters showing some rubbish contraption and saying “Here’s one I made earlier”
2. Its cool to turn up as yourself - well no it isn’t! You don’t have to stick to a theme or 100% bought in outfit - but you do need to do things properly. For a laugh you can be you favourite Celeb by buying the right sort of wig and make up from an online fancy dress shop but you still need the right stuff.
3. You need a unique theme if you are running a Fancy Dress Party. Not true! There are lots of classic themes. Leading event organizers Carnage UK have regularly run “Doctors and Nurses” or “Angels and Devils” Fancy Dress parties for students all over the country for the last six years - trust the experts! For a more traditional fancy dress event Goodwood Revival “Chaps” and their lady friend dress up in 1940s and 1950s gear (or period attire) for the Goodwood Revival. The event, at Goodwood motor-racing circuit, centres on mid twentieth century aviation and motor racing and revives the spirit of Goodwood in its heyday, which was the late Forties to the mid Sixties.

One of the great sets of new ideas that we’ve come across out and about partying has been the Wild, Wild West Theme. This allows really dark victorian and goth themes, cowboy and snappy dressing to be combined with a retro technological fancy dress theme. Tell us here if you have any ideas based around the theme!

We did a quick poll of which fancy dress FM shoes are definitely leave-on shoes and came up with these

Devil Shoes

(With red hold-ups)

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Ribboned Fairy

(with bare legs)

Sexy Witch

(with black fishnets)

Bijou Boutique Shoes Clear Slide S/M

Tell us is you have any leave-on favorites of your own!