Please can anyone explain this ridiculous fashion for fancy dress? We are going to a party tonight and have to dress in a 1920's style. I loathe fancy dress I will not waste money hiring something and I do not have the skills or the inclination to make something. I love going out and mixing with friends, but why do I have to dress up in some stupid costume. Is it just me being a grouch or does anyone else feel like this?
Best not tell you that I work in a fancy dress shop then! Or that, as it's halloween I've been in cosume all day - including visiting my dad in hospital straight after work!
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As a teenager I loved it! I used to make all my own costumes. As I got older the scroogy/grouch in me came hough and I don't even bother going out anymore ^_^ Then again, I don't know anyone round here and I'm too busy with all my projects :) Cup of home brew with my feet up suits me better :)
I don't do fancy dress either. My 18YO is going to his step-mum's party soon and has to go in fancy dress. He's spent £20 on an outfit, and then feels obliged to buy her a present as well. I think it's a blumming cheek.
I love making and wearing fancydress - but only if it's a silly one and home-constructed - not 'date themed' . Tarts and tramps or loud and bad taste are bestest (I have/can make lots of stuff that's bad taste or tramp(hobo)Ish )
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Me too ...i hate it..and won't go if i have to look ridiculous..mind you my hubby said i didn't need to change just pick up broomstick on way out ..at least i don't look like worzel gummidge all yr like him ...
fran wrote:Please can anyone explain this ridiculous fashion for fancy dress? We are going to a party tonight and have to dress in a 1920's style. I loathe fancy dress
You are not the only one! Although I always put it down to me being boringly non-British - this urge to dress up has up to now seemed to me to be a very British thing to do... We did have a few fancy dress parties when I was a kid, but I don't remember any since after Kindergarten time! I still have a photo somewhere that shows me in Kindergarten, dressed up as a sunflower, and looking very unimpressed. I obviously didn't like it even back then.
I even refused to go to my own graduation, as it would have meant spending loads of money that I didn't have on buying and hiring a suitable "fancy dress" outfit - ok, gown etc... Why do you all do it? I'm puzzled.
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
No idea Ina! I quite like them to a certain extent but have only been to very few in my life and nothing involved spending money other than in a charity shop or for a few bits and bobs. My friend and I had a 'Song Title' party once where you had to come dressed as a song title but only a handful of people bothered which was a shame.
Then an old boyfriend and I were invited to a shorts party - "yeah right" we thought - like we are going to turn up in shorts and look like right wallies and have everyone laugh at us.... only to turn up and find we were the only ones not in shorts!
I think you just dress up if you want to and don't if you don't want to, so long as you aren't the only one doing one or the other so you stick out like a sore thumb it doesn't really matter! It's all just a bit of a laugh and helps to break the ice at parties.
Millymollymandy wrote:
Then an old boyfriend and I were invited to a shorts party - "yeah right" we thought - like we are going to turn up in shorts and look like right wallies and have everyone laugh at us.... only to turn up and find we were the only ones not in shorts!
You could have gone for those trousers with a zip across the thigh that turns them from ordinary ones into shorts...
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
I've been avoiding this thread because I thought you were asking for ideas or showing pics of dressing up.
I loathe fancy dress - I think mainly because I'm fat and so never look particularly good in anything but at least I feel comfortable in my own clothes.
The other reason though is that I'm not very good at being told what to do - so the order to make myself look ridiculous is a complete non-starter
Maggie
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Green Aura wrote:
The other reason though is that I'm not very good at being told what to do - so the order to make myself look ridiculous is a complete non-starter
Same here - I have the sneaking suspicion that I look ridiculous anyway - no need to emphasize that! I hate all those charity events to; wear something pink - arghhhhhhh!!!!!! I always refused that. If I want to contribute to some charity or other, I don't need to make an ass of myself to do it.
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
I will not waste money hiring something and I do not have the skills or the inclination to make something. I love going out and mixing with friends, but why do I have to dress up in some stupid costume. Is it just me being a grouch or does anyone else feel like this? 
Or that, as it's halloween I've been in cosume all day - including visiting my dad in hospital straight after work! 
I quite like them to a certain extent but have only been to very few in my life and nothing involved spending money other than in a charity shop or for a few bits and bobs. My friend and I had a 'Song Title' party once where you had to come dressed as a song title but only a handful of people bothered which was a shame.
I'm not just a grumpy old woman, I'm normal !!!!!!!! 