Friday, October 16th, 2009
Halloween is almost here again and there are bound to be plenty of fancy dress parties going on. It is the most popular time of year to get dressed up in some strange outfit and to make a fool of yourself. When it comes down to what you are going to wear there are all kinds of possibilities. A lot of people tend to stick to the Halloween theme and go as Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein or The Wolfman. Sticking to the traditional spooky image of Halloween is all well and good, but there are a lot of alternatives to consider as well…
Pirate costumes are becoming very popular for fancy dress parties. They have always featured in the selections of outfits in fancy dress shops but they are now being worn by a lot more partygoers. A lot of this is down to the enormous success of the Johnny Depp movies. Mr. Depp and his crewmates have managed to make pirate costumes look like incredibly cool things to wear.
Of course, there have always been movies about buccaneers; when Disney created its ‘Caribbean’ franchise it had not really come up with anything new. The main reason that they have been so amazingly successful is because they tap into a wonderful type of adventure story that had been largely forgotten about. Cinema has always had its antiheroes in pirate costumes, but there had not been any really good ones for quite a number of years.
When Captain Jack Sparrow made his dazzling appearance across the big screen, he captured us with his wit and charm, and the whole pirate story came back to life.You immediately remembered all the pirate tales you watched as a kid on TV and felt the same excitement.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
The great news is that if you are planning on going to a fancy dress party and you want to deck yourself out in a pirate costume then the varieties that are available to buy are enormous. This was true before the advent of the Johnny Depp movies but since then it has gone absolutely crazy. The biggest problem that you are going to have is deciding just how far you want to go with your outfit. You can keep it relatively simple or you can really go to town with it. Are you content with just wearing a stripey top, an eye-patch and a bandana? Or do you want to really push the boat out (so to speak…) and make your pirate costume really authentic? If you have a look at some fancy dress outfit suppliers then you will soon come up with all manner of costumes. Getting dressed up as a buccaneer isn’t a case of one universal costume. There are all sorts of styles to consider. Will you wear a waistcoat? What about a parrot to sit on your shoulder? Will you opt for a musket, sword or dagger?
If you decide to wear a pirate costume to a fancy dress party then you will find that it will be a great choice and you are bound to have plenty of fun planning exactly what you are going to wear.
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