Blog May 2012

With Halloween night falling on a Sunday this year, many of you will be celebrating and partying on Saturday the 30th in your Halloween costumes. That means there is only a month left to get your Halloween fancy dress costume sorted. With our huge warehouse and organised stock system, we are better prepared for the Halloween rush than any other fancy dress retailer, but Halloween is always a manic time of year for us and any costume could go out of stock at some point. Our advice would be get looking and buying the perfect Halloween costume nice and early. You can then take advantage of the free shipping we offer here at Simply Fancy Dress and save yourself even more pennies for partying.

You have many choices nowadays when it comes to picking your Halloween costume. The traditional route is simply to go as scary as you possibly can. We like this route and with some extra little details, you can really scare the hell out of people! Our superb selection of Halloween contact lenses really puts evil in your eyes and professional make-up kits can pretty much do anything to your face, including implanting a baseball in to it...yes you read that correctly. Take a look at our Woochie make-up kits for some gruesome Halloween effects.

Have you seen our new and fantastic selection of contact lenses? We now have over 100 different designs of coloured contact lenses that can completely transform your look and make your Halloween fancy dress look even better!

With that many different designs there really are a pair of coloured contact lenses suitable for any fancy dress costume. Whether you just wanted to be a blue eyed and blonde haired cutie for the night or you wanted to put the fear of the devil in to someone with fearsome fiery red eyes, you will find the perfect pair here to achieve the look you desire.

With Halloween only 1 month away now, everyone is planning what they are going to wear and where they are going to have a Halloween party, but what about the dogs eh? Have you thought about the dogs? Dogs have loved Halloween for centuries now and it is up to you to continue the trend and make sure that they also have an amazing time this Halloween.

Don't just leave the Halloween fancy dress costumes to the humans either, we have an awesome selection of dog Halloween costumes to please any pooch this October.

I don't wish to cause panic and worry, but have you heard that at some point today a NASA satellite is going to hurtle towards the Earth and impact at a frightening velocity that has the potential to damage a massive area. We here at Simply Fancy Dress are looking for a superhero to step up and save the planet from it's impending doom (slight exaggeration).

If you listen to the experts however, it all seems slightly less scary. The odds of the floating satellite hitting anyone on Earth are over 3000 to 1, so if you want to figure out your personal odds of being hit I guess you take the population of the Earth (around 7 billion) and times that by 3000. When you compare these odds to winning the lottery you realise that the chances of it hitting you are pretty slim, around 21 trillion to 1. The odds of the lottery winner being hit are even worse however, I wonder what the bookies would give me if I asked for that bet.

Still the fact there are odds of it hitting me is enough to want do something about it...

When you think of Zombies (I hope that isn't too often) you probably think of an extremely ugly man staggering towards you with his arms outstretched and with a horrific limp. Well, this is because the man that has come back from the dead must have been extremely unfortunate in his life and fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down and injured his leg.

We think zombies can be hot too, as long as they were hot when they were alive. So why not dress up in sexy lady zombie costumes this Halloween. We have a new selection of awesome Halloween zombie costumes for you to have a look at and look great in this Halloween.

When you think of Zombies (I hope that isn't too often) you probably think of an extremely ugly man staggering towards you with his arms outstretched and with a horrific limp. Well, this is because the man that has come back from the dead must have been extremely unfortunate in his life and fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down and injured his leg.

We think zombies can be hot too, as long as they were hot when they were alive. So why not dress up in sexy lady zombie costumes this Halloween. We have a new selection of awesome Halloween zombie costumes for you to have a look at and look great in this Halloween.

We thought we would take a look at a few kids Halloween costumes for mums and dads who wish to treat their little monsters but don't want to break the bank. At Simply Fancy Dress we have a great selection of childrens Halloween costumes, many of which are below £15! Buy your Halloween costume nice and early and take advantage of our free shipping offer to save further cash.

First up we have the Child Monster Halloween costume, this rather odd looking fellow must be a lost brother of Frankenstein with his massive head and off coloured skin. For a real bargain price of £11.99 you get the black top with integrated jacket, a pair of trousers and the scary mask. We recommend then buying some green paint to make your hands match your face.

Next up is the....

Ghostbusters is coming back to the cinema everybody! Woohoo! The movie world is buzzing with press releases and announcements as Ghostbusters, a 1980's classic will be shown to a younger audience in the conditions it was meant to be seen. Many people in their twenties and thirties will have seen Ghostbusters and will love it but will have always been sad that they never got to see it in the theatre. This Halloween they have been given the chance to put that right as the comedy classic is re-released with a digitally enhanced picture quality.

It has yet to be made clear where, for how long and exactly when Ghostbusters will be back in Cinemas but we do know it will be in October at some point and most likely towards the end. We expect to see plenty of Ghostbusters fancy dress when we go to the Cinema to watch it.

I find it strange how vampires have now been turned in to this handsome creature that girls all over the country lust over. A few successful books by Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), L.J.Smith (The Vampire Diaries) and Charlaine Harris (True Blood) have somehow erased decades of folk tales labelling vampires as terrifying, blood-sucking creatures that descend from bats. Nowadays, if you asked a 16 year old about a vampire you would probably see her eyes glaze over slightly as she takes a deep breathe in before slowly exhaling with a sigh of wonderment....

Vampire Costumes

One thing that has become blindingly obvious to me whilst writing about vampires is that you would be a fool not to dress as one at this year's Halloween fancy dress party. Wear a vampire costume and you will instantly become one of the most liked lads in the room by all female spectators. I know that in the books that have made Vampires sexy they weren't all wearing capes and having black side partings greased down to their scalp, but the connection is still there....

You will start to see the bright orange balls entering the supermarkets and green grocers as Halloween edges closer with each minute. The pumpkin is something you don't see for the rest of the year but it puts a smile on your face when you do, as you start designing scary faces to cut out of it for Halloween night.

This year will be better than ever for you pumpkin carvers with the Pumpkin Carving Kit from Simply Fancy Dress. This kit gives you three precision tools to make carving your pumpkin even more fun and much less hassle. In the kit you will find a carving saw to cut your perfect lines, a punch tool and a scoop to get all the gunk out of the middle. You will also receive a set of instructions with 5 pumpkin faces to copy.

A new style of pumpkin carving has emerged...

Many of you will be thinking about having a Halloween fancy dress party this year and we applaud you. You may be considering your options on where the best place to hold your Halloween party is and when cost comes in to play you will probably decide that the chance of a glass of wine being spilt on the carpet is more appealing than hiring a spooky venue or hall. We think you are making the right decision as your home is extremely easy to transform into a terrifying haunted house in no time with a few of our Halloween Decorations.

With just a few small details, your closest friends will feel like they are walking into a completely different house when they come to yours for Halloween party night. With a bit of dimmed lighting, a few sheets on the walls and ceilings and of course a select few of our best Halloween decorations.

You can go as extreme as you want or just have a few tiny details dotted around which will still make the difference. If you are looking to save as many pennies as you possibly can then the...

You may have heard of International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) on from people rambling on the twittersphere or any other social device, or maybe you have known about it for years. For those of you who have no idea what i'm talking about, Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by two guys playing racquetball. In fact, the idea came about when one of them (they don't remember who) stretched for a low shot and let out an “Aaaarrr!”. The game quickly descended into a bizarre pirate themed game of bat n ball that made it all the more fun...

Pirate Costumes

Now if you are going to devote a day to talking like a pirate then you might as well go the whole way and dress like one too. Talk Like a Pirate parties are the next craze to come from this famous racquetball game and we here at Simply Fancy Dress want to make sure you are all kitted out correctly. Whether you want to go all the way with full blown pirates costumes or just add a few details with our pirate accessories, fancy dress can certainly help you get in to character and you will be coming out with pirate vocabulary that you didn't even realise you had in you.

Find Pirate costumes for all shapes, sizes, ages and genders so that...