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By: Helen Evans Home | Travel-and-Leisure


Costume ideas need the greatest input you have - your ideas. You don't have to buy or hire a costume unless you want to. You can make a costume instead with your innovative and unique ideas. The first step will be obviously to know about the situation. You cannot have a jazzy, glittery costume on a formal dinner. On the other hand, a stiff-collared formal dress will ruin the mood of a hip-hop party.

A fancy dress party is definitely a licence to let your imagination go wild. For instance, you could go as Pinocchio. Make a cardboard pencil nose and attach it with either a white or skin coloured piece of elastic, complete your costume with shirt, shorts and felt hat. If you are on the heavy side consider going as the Genie from Aladdin. Some blue body paint is all that is required. If you are going to a periodical themed ball then you can go as your favourite historical character, or maybe a character from one of Shakespeare's plays. You can pretty much come up with a unique costume that nobody can copy.

Be imaginative, innovative, and creative with your fancy dress costume. At times, it is just a perfect combination of your day-to-day clothing that adds value and fun to the occasion. A poster with a piece of hilarious message on your ordinary T-shirt is a perfect costume when you are going for a baseball match or for example, in Death on the Mound you can play a clutz by simply wearing different coloured socks.

Ever had a bit of fun with your children's watercolour tubes? Dress them up in an ordinary shirt and jeans. Then draw a moustache and give them a hat and holster. Then just sit back and watch them enjoying playing cowboys. Costumes can be a powerful visual aid to raise awareness on certain issues.

Let's say you are trying to address the issue of eating genetically modified fruits and vegetables. You can dress in a tomato or carrot costume, this will help the viewers get more interested when you are talking about the pros and cons of genetically modified fruits and vegetables. This is a good way to make your message stick out in the minds of the viewers and less boring than reading it from somewhere.

Your costume ideas in a sense can add value to your life. It is a reflection of your attitude toward life. If you want to have fun, design a costume that will take you out from your busy life. If you are mad about Discos, the dance craze of the 1970s, you can reflect the same carefree mix of fashion and fun with your costume. As an earnest fan of Marilyn Monroe or Sherlock Homes, you can pay your tribute by dressing up like them. Plan your costumes for all occasions, be it Christmas or Halloween, in a different way. Don't buy expensive dresses and ready made costumes, instead, design them.



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