As this years festival season comes into full-flow it’s great to see just how many events there are being held that have come to embrace fancy dress as a huge part of the festivities.
On this post we are going to take a look at a selection of our favourite festivals that will be an absolute treat for you to go to if you enjoy dressing up. We’ll also offer some festival fancy dress ideas so you can have a better costume than anyone else. Is there a parade, competition or just want to look better than anyone else? Take a look below, they’ll be something that will appeal to you.
Read more in our Festival Fancy Dress blog
Our digital Marketing Manager had such a good time at Reading Beer Festival that he decided to write a short blog documenting his exploits with a large group of rugby players. Each year they like nothing more than to get decked out in some costumes and have a ruddy good knees up, as Bernard Bresslaw might say if this was a Carry On film and it was 1973.
May signals the start of a busy time in my social calendar – it really makes the month fly by. This isn’t helped by having two Bank Holidays in it either. I would be all in favour in spreading them out my evenly over the year – I think most bosses would too!
Read more in our Beer Festivals - A Great Fancy Dress Occasion blog
Personally, I’ve not really followed Eurovision too closely since I was younger, so much younger than today. You could say that, today I need anybody’s help in any way. Yes I know the Beatles have nothing to do with Eurovision but it is a music reference and that’s the best you’re going to get, so stop winging.
This blog features 10 tips for a successful Eurovision party along with a load of rambling and a couple of subpar jokes.
Read more in our 10 Tips for a Successful Eurovision Party blog
Over on the Jokers’ Masquerade Twitter page we regularly hear from people looking for costumes corresponding with a certain letter and fancy dress beginning with B is an excellent example of this. As such, we have put this page together to help you find fancy dress ideas beginning with B that will make you look absolutely fantastic for your event whatever it may be.
First off though, be sure to take a moment to peruse our Letter B costumes category for your fill of bobsleigh, banana and Betty Boop fancy dress, plus many more costumes beginning with B that will be both unique and original.
You can read more in our Fancy Dress Ideas Beginning With B blog
We find that fancy dress and stag weekends pretty much go hand in hand so we’ve taken this chance to hand a slot on our blog to our buddies at StagWeb. They can take care of everything to enable you to get your stag do sorted. We hop you enjoy reading this guest blog and will take a moment to share the post using the social media links above.
You can read more in our Top Stag Weekend Locations in the UK blog
If you are wondering how long until Halloween look no further. Simply bookmark this page for a quick reminder how long until you have left to select your Halloween costumes. Depending on your browser, you may be able to bookmark this page simply by pressing Ctrl+D or Command+D on an Apple.
You can read more in our When is Halloween 2012? blog
After yet another successful stint in 2011, Rewind festival 2012 is looking to out-do itself by putting on the biggest incarnation of the gathering to date.
For the second successive year there will be two dates that will host the 80s nostalgia weekend event. The original Henley-on-thames location will be in its usual August timeslot and once again, following a triumphant debut last June at Scone Palace in Perth, the Scottish leg will be looking to be even bigger and better than last years effort.
You can read more in our 80s Rewind Festival blog
Working at Jokers Masquerade fancy dress certainly provides some interesting opportunites. For example, In our marketing office we were just thinking, “wouldn’t it be great if we could offer some help to our customers to be able to make their own bobsled”. Yes, we really do think things like that, hard to believe in a place of business huh? Well, this notion comes from offering a unique look if you were to go out with a few friends all dressed in our excellent Cool Runnings fancy dress costume. It was a great film from the early 1990s and now the outfit is finally available, we think that it would be super fun if you could also have your own bobsled.
Here’s what we suggest:
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Source a series of boxes, a canoe or PVC barrels.
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Get yourself some green, yellow and black paint.
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Craft a Jamaican bobsled shape out of your chosen material
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Paint as per the image below
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Have a great time!!!
Jamaican Bobsled
Here’s some inspiration for your own Jamaican boblsed. We’ve found three excellent homemade Jamaican bobsleds.
This one featured in the great north run and was used by four guys called James Desmond, Richard Bagnall, Craig Rockliffe and Andy Thompson. They raised money for The Motor Neurone Disease Association and did a great job.
Although this one is nowhere near as good as the previous effort, these four Americans from Richmond won a local fancy dress contest using a single design of boxes and a lot of paint.
Finally, this one we have little information on as College Humor have failed to offer any and we can’t seem to track down the origin of the image. Top marks for the presentation of the Jamaican bobsled though, these guys have really piled the effort in. The only issue we have is that the homemade Cool Runnings costume doesn’t seem to look as good as our one. Still, next time they will know to come and visit us.
In discovering this blog we’re willing to bet that you’ve been invited to a fancy dress party that calls for you to go in fancy dress beginning with T.
Be sure to take a moment to view our Letter T costumes category for your fill of Tarzan, turtle and Tin Man fancy dress, plus more fancy dress ideas starting with T that will be both original and unique.
Read more in out Fancy Dress Ideas Beginning With T blog
April 19th 2012 is an anniversary of sorts for the current longest-running American sitcom. Back in 1987 the Simpsons originated as a short segment on The Tracey Ullman Show, a US variety programme which was hosted by David Letterman, only kidding, yes you guessed it correctly, it was hosted by Slough’s finest, Tracey Ullman.
It has been 25 years since everyone’s favourite Springfield family first debuted on TV and in that time have gone on to gain worldwide acclaim. The Simpsons movie alone grossed over half a billion dollars back in 2007.
Read more in our Look at the Costumes of The Simpsons 25 Years on blog
