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Did you/do you go to them? Do you like them?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 26 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I might be up for it now, but when i was at school I hated the idea of a fancy dress party and never went to any. The sixth form party was always fancy dress and I managed to avoid the first one coz my Dad was in hospital recovering from a hernia operation and I went to visit him. In the upper sixth I avoided the party by visiting Keele to go round the uni to see if I liked it. I remember someone asking me why I wasn't going to the party and when I said I was going to Keele he thought I said I was going to be killed!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 26 April 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Dress-up parties (though not neccessarily "fancy" dress) are my favourite things in the world.

― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hated them when I was young b/c of shabby clothes; love them now.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could go to one! I pretty much hate going to parties now because all my friends are married couples with kids or about to have kids, or long-term couples about to get married, and I am THE ONLY SINGLE GUY THERE!! It sucks, I feel like a loser. ILXers in your 20s; you don't understand.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

there is nothing lovelier than dressing up. i do not have many opportunities, though.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have that many opportunities either, and quite honestly think I need to make some up.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

fancy dress parties are best if they have a theme. I went to a great party that had a combined theme of Vicars & Tarts and Sailors & Slappers.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 27 April 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, all NYC FAPs should be fancy dress, and all the photos should be posted here. I won't suggest DV's theme.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Saliors & Slapper isn't the de facto theme of all FAPs anyway.

All the parties my house in college had were theme parties. Yay costumes! The best was instead of a semi-formal, we had the Semi-Clothed.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 27 April 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I still look for any excuse to throw a theme party.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 27 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I am very much in favour of the anonymity of these events.

I was at one on Friday - Night Fever themed. I wore a gravity-defying, blond, afro wig, a turquoise mini-dress, silver fishnets and silver shoes. A man in a diamante studded jump-suit kissed me.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm half awake and read the title of this initially as 'fancy dress panties'

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

hi lara!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh fuck you. I'm 25 and that's pretty much all the parties I go to. And there's no 'fancy dress' because we all do that every day to go work anyhow. Being the only single guy = CRAP, being one of the two oldest people there all the time = 2X CRAP.

to answer the og Q: I can't ever be arsed to hit the costume shops so I either don't go to such things or I just chalk it up to being a boring schlub and show up dressed as a loser who didn't realize it was one of those parties.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, and yes.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

revive.

mrs fiendish and i are going to a "silver-screen couples" party on new year's eve.

who the fuck can we go as?

there are all the obvious ones that everyone else will do: bogart and bacall, fred and ginger, king kong and fay wray, the blues brothers (actually, no, i think mrs F vetoed that) ... but what we want is something slightly unusual yet still instantly recognisable. i mean, i'd love to go as the dude and maude lebowski, for instance, but i can't face an entire night of explaining to people who we are (especially because i'm probably going to be driving, and therefore sober and irritable).

o ye: and it has to be straightforward - something we can cobble together with a bit of help from a hire shop, an old bedsheet and half a german sausage.

so this is where you give us LOTS OF IDEAS. if it helps: mrs F is about an inch taller than me in heels. i'm wee and dark; she's slim and feline.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Nigel Tuffnell (her) and Derek Smalls. It'll be a good excuse for you to regrow the 'tache.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

heheh HEHEH.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

batman and catwoman

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

twatman and catwoman might be more like it, but hey: good fucking call, ken.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

well, grimly fiendish, we are just facing the same challenge: fancy dress party for New Year. But my boyfriend/closer to husband/partner/whatever refuses blatantly to wear anything but his usual t-shirt (preferrably faded and black or grey) and his jeans. I´m desperate!

― olenska (olenska), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

if you can get him into a white T-shirt, might he pass as bruce willis in "die hard"?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

OK, in which case olenska and mr olenska can go as Danny Zukko and Sandy Olsen. In fact, Grimly and Mrs Grimly can do that too.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

see what i'm up against here? i passed on your suggestion, ken, and got this in reply:

i did briefly think catwoman. but since I am actually a good 3-4 inches bigger than you in heels, we would look like catwoman and robin

if she keeps that up, we'll be going as norman bates and his mother.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I think Grimly and Mrs Grimly should go as ailsa and Neil. That'd confuse the fuck out of everybody else there.

"Who are you?"
"I'm the internet's ailsa w4ts0n, and this is my husband."

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Gomez and Morticia Addams.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

i like how the north americans here have assumed that 'fancy dress' means wearing a nice/formal outfit. but of course the wacky brits actually mean 'costume party'.

i like both.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Beauty & the beast?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Gomez and Morticia Addams.

genius.

ok, i forgot to mention that she wants to try being a blonde. but i've always, always wanted her to dye her hair jet-black. NOW'S MY CHANCE. *and* i get to grow a moustache. william, you're a wonder.

x-post to not-goodwin: grr.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

but, er, just on the off-chance that she refuses: keep the ideas coming.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Grimly has too much hair to go as Neil :)

(xpost, haha, unless that was like another version of Beauty and the Beast)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I recommend a long black wig instead of dyeing hair, but YMMV. Also, the John Astin Gomez instead of Raul Julia. (Think "amphetamine-crazy grin.")

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

why, only the other week a co-worker accused me of having a "manic smile" when drunk. this gets better and better.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Can you stand on your head?

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

http://tv.infinitecoolness.com/04/addams07.gif
http://www.justgiving.com/images/UserImages/UK/EGG/Pic(05).jpg

it's uncanny.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Carolyn Jones as Morticia has always been a major crush of mine.

I just found out Jodie Foster did the voice of Pugsley in the 70s animated series!!

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

pirates

― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Go as Dennis Quaid and Martin Short in Innerspace, with one of you shrunken down to a tiny size and injected into the bloodstream of the other.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I like parties/events where it's tacitly understood that you are to dress up. I dislike being told I have to wear a pirate costume or coctail dress or whatever the fuck to some crappy keg party.

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

i have belatedly realised that i actually kind of hate fancy dress parties. (as distinct from, like, dressing up as in smartly, which i love.) i have to go to one in a couple of weeks :(

"fictional characters" :(

― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:51 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

another bloody fancy dress party! "dead celebrities". stresssssssss wtf am i going to do

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

steve jobs

― conrad, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 13:03 (fourteen years ago)

but how do you dress up as him? i don't even know what he looked like

(repeat for pretty much every male celebrity apart from the ones that i'd never want to dress up as)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 13:09 (fourteen years ago)

http://myhomemadehalloweencostumes.com/steve-jobs-halloween-costume.gif

― conrad, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 13:22 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

God I hate fancy dress... but needs must. How do you do yours? Always seems either very expensive or extremely tacky or both

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:07 (eleven years ago)

I hate the way dressy clothes (esp. ties) and shoes feel, but love the way I look in fancy or formal clothes. Probably because I wear such rags the rest of the time because they're comfortable.

― Lee626, Friday, 1 August 2014 13:25 (eleven years ago)

I meant 'fancy dress' as opposed to 'dressing fancy'. I always seem to get invited or end up in situations where fancy dress is required and generally make a half-arsed effort due to a lack of imagination and then on the day I feel like a lame-o funspoiler compared to everyone else.

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:33 (eleven years ago)

What he's trying to say it that he means 'costume parties'.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:35 (eleven years ago)

http://www.reflectionsfancydress.co.uk/images/gallery/cartoon.jpg

I think you should go as one of these.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:38 (eleven years ago)

my friends are going as explorers and various jungle animals. i refuse to onesie.

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:39 (eleven years ago)

I lack the imagination (or the clothes themselves) to go to costume parties

― Lee626, Friday, 1 August 2014 13:39 (eleven years ago)

I used to own a pith helmet.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:40 (eleven years ago)

Pith helmet, nice suit, drape a stuffed anaconda over your shoulders. There's your explorer.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:41 (eleven years ago)

I'm pretty horrible at coming up with costumes though.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:44 (eleven years ago)

isn't yr jamie oliver uncanny enough that people won't notice it's actually a very boring 'costume'?

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 1 August 2014 13:51 (eleven years ago)

I've done the JO thing in the past but I have a beard and a shorter haircut now so I wouldn't be able to pull it off.

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2014 13:59 (eleven years ago)

Do they not have a theme? How can you throw a fancy dress party without a theme?

Go as Klaus Dinger, that's what I'd do.

― emil.y, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:24 (eleven years ago)

it's jungle theme. i could go as general levy i guess.

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:35 (eleven years ago)

Well, yeah, as long as you can avoid the minefield of dubiousness then do the music genre. Otherwise how's life has it, really.

― emil.y, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:45 (eleven years ago)

shouldn't be an ish... i was joking about general levy.

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:48 (eleven years ago)

other option would be a ghillie suit or other representation of dense vegetation.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:25 (eleven years ago)

oh... those are cool! although they look a bit warm for this weather!

― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:34 (eleven years ago)

Just go buck underneath. I understand they breathe well.

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:37 (eleven years ago)

Dancy press farties

― switching letters guy, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)

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