Sexy Star Trek Costumes

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With the new Star Trek film about to be released, Star Trek and the Star Trek Costume is everywhere, but not many costumes for women?

The female version of the uniform is the same as the men’s, apart from the Original Series, where the women’s Star Trek Uniform had a short skirt. – For more information and where to buy Star Trek Costumes, including a guide to the different costumes used in The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise and the New Star Trek film, check out this excellent page about the Star Trek Costume and Uniforms

Things to do in a Stormtrooper Costume

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Who says you can or should only go to fancy dress parties in a Stormtrooper costume, why not go down to the lake with your girlfriend and have a pick-nick?

Aggh brings tears to my eyes.

If you are looking to buy a fancy dress Storm Trooper costume try Jokers’ Masquerade Halloween Costumes and Fancy Dress they have a large selection of Troopers as well as most other Star Wars costumes for sale.

10 Top Halloween Costumes – Hitwise Data

Hitwise, the leading competitive intelligence service on the web recently published a report on Halloween costume related search terms in the UK market. They confirm what many in the fancy dress industry had had already suspected, but it is still interesting to get the confirmation from such a respected source:

Aparently Jokers’ Masquerade is the most popular fancy dress and Halloween costume retailer in the UK and has seen a 25% increase in visits since Halloween 2007. Batman and the film The Dark Knight seem to be the theme for this Halloween, with the most popular specific costume search being ‘joker costume’, and searches for ‘batman costume’ and ‘catwoman costume’ coming in the top 10 for the week ending 18/10/08.

Top Costume related Searches (4 weeks ending 18/10/08)

1. joker costume
2. pirate costume
3. batman costume
4. alice in wonderland costume
5. witch costume
6. devil costume
7. jack sparrow costume
8. catwoman costume
9. beetlejuice costume
10. tinkerbell costume

More about Hitwise
Hitwise provides its 1,500 clients around the world with daily insights on how their customers interact with a broad range of competitive websites, and how their competitors use different tactics to attract on line customers. Since 1997, they have pioneered a network-based approach to Internet measurement. Through relationships with Internet Service Providers around the globe, Hitwise’s patented methodology anonymously captures the on line usage, search and conversion behaviour of 25 million Internet users. This unprecedented volume of Internet usage data is seamlessly integrated into an easy to use, web-based service, designed to help marketers better plan, implement and report on a range of online marketing programs.

Check out Crazy Christmas Costume Ideas

Just a quick post today as I am testing out a new gadget that I found call tell a Friend:

Anyway if you are after a fancy dress costume that is a little different for Christmas this year, check out Crazy Christmas Costume Ideas

Homemade Halloween Costumes – Picture Gallery

Many people ask me about making their own Halloween costumes and where they can find Halloween costume patterns. I think if you want to make Halloween costume, a good way to start it to take a look at what others have done before you. So in this post I have decided to make it a picture gallery of the best homemade Halloween costumes that I could find.

Homemade creative Halloween costumes
Just because you are making your own costume, does not mean that they don’t have to be creative. In fact I believe that some of the most creative Halloween costumes are those that are homemade.

Home-made Boys Halloween costumes
This Homemade Barbarian Boys Halloween Costume is awsome, but I think that only advanced makers of costumes should give it a try!

Homemade Women Halloween costumes
This picture shows just what is possible if you really put some effort into making your own Halloween costume.

Homemade Halloween Witch costume
Scary witch costumes and Halloween go together like Tom and Jerry, and what I think is great about them is that a wich costume is pretty simple to make. In the example below, all you really need to do is make the pointed hat out of some cardboard painted black, some face paint and then some old clothing. The witches broomstick is also pretty simple to make.

Homemade Superhero Costumes
Ok, I know that these are not scary Halloween costumes, but it is becoming more and more pupular not to wear scary costumes for Halloween and Superheros are really big at the moment, I think that these ones pictured below are particularly brilliant!

Least effort as Possible Halloween Costume
Ok lets say you have left it to the lastminute and you just dont have time to make your own costume or go out and buy one what you going to do? Well here is my winner for most creative Halloween costume with least amount of effert winner:

Happy Halloween!

Super Hairy Fairy Scary Halloween Costume!

Not often that you can call a fairy a scary Halloween costume… but just maybe if it is hairy!

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Creative halloween Costumes: Where to find inspiration

I have worked in the fancy dress industry for a while now and part of my job is to come up with unique and I suppose creative Halloween costumes. As with most things, I thing that having a totally unique idea only happens a very few times in your life and so the best way is to take your inspiration from other peoples ideas. A few techniques that I have come up with, are below:

1) Browse websites that either write about or sell fancy dress costumes.
Sounds pretty basic, and I suppose that it is! And I guess that is why you are reading my post! So what sites help me: Jokers’ Masquerade Fancy Dress are excellent inspiration, they have literally thousands of fancy dress costumes on line, where you can browse categories of major themes like Superhero costumes, 70’s costumes, Pirate costumes etc. I would also recommend a great blog called fancy dress ideas, similar to this blog and has been around a while.

2) Fancy Dress Images on the Web
For me another great source of inspiration are images of fancy dress costumes that I find on the web. A website called Flickr (http://flickr.com/) is a great place to start and had a huge library of photos added by users, just search for fancy dress in their search box and you will be provided with a bunch of ideas for your Halloween costume.

Google’s image search (http://images.google.co.uk), is also another great location to search for your fancy dress ideas. Just like searching for websites, you can be quite specific for what you are looking for. Try things like: Kids Halloween Costumes, Infants Halloween Costumes, scary Halloween Costumes, Funny Halloween Costumes, Witch Halloween costume or Couple Halloween Costumes!

Then for a more “out of the box” way of coming up with that once in a life time truly Unique Creative Halloween Costume, you just need to keep your mind open to everything around you. TV characters or the latest movie themes are always good, but there are many places you can draw inspiration from: children’s books (Alice in Wonderland Costumes), Supermarket products (Marmite costume!), litterally there are ideas all around you and that is what makes fancy dress so fum!

Pet Fancy Dress Costumes

Dressing up you pet in fancy dress is becoming more and more popular, what started as a weird novelty in the US has spread and now there are many places you can find pet fancy dress costumes. Jokers’ Masquerade fancy dress has one of the largest selections of pet costumes in the UK and they are well worth checking out, not only for your dog costumes but for all your fancy dress needs and fancy dress ideas as sometimes just browsing a site can give you inspiration.

Below are the main categories of pet costumes on their site..

Generic Dog Costumes

Super Hero Dog Costumes

TV & Film Dog Costumes

Star Wars Dog Costumes

Halloween Dog Costumes

Christmas Dog Costumes

Superman Dog Costumes

Fancy Dress Ideas UK: Flying Fancy Dress!

Those Magnificent Men in Their fancy dress and Flying Machines. Every year in the town of Bognor in Sussex UK people gather for the annual Bognor Birdman challenge. This year saw the 36th edition of the event where competitors “fly” into the sea wearing crazy fancy dress costumes and home built flying machines. It is great fun to watch, as well as to find some excellent fancy dress ideas.

The event is taken very seriously by some participants and with a £25,000 jackpot for anyone who can travel 100m, who can blame them! The more serious competitors don’t tend to wear fancy dress, but the vast majority do and there are cash prizes for the best fancy dress ideas. This event held in the UK along with other eccentric events are uniquely British and long may they continue!

Check out this YouTube video for some highlights of last years event.

So if your looking for something to do in your fancy dress costume, or you are looking for some fancy dress ideas in the UK or just want a laugh, why not travel down to Bognor next year for the Birdman Challenge.

Fancy Dress Ideas UK: Freddie Mercury

Fancy Dress Ideas for the Freddie mercury commemoration night, Manchester UK.
September 5 was Freddie Mercury’s birthday and to mark the event there will be a Freddie mercury commemoration night at One Central Street in Manchester, UK. So if you are in the area, this is your chance to put your Freddy fancy dress ideas in to action and get on down to the party.

Will you go as Freddie the housewife, or the glammed up version of Freddie from his Bohemian Rhapsody days?

There will be plenty of music, including many Queen and Freddie tracks alongside a soundtrack of pop music across the decades, and what is one of the more bizzare features of the night, you can also talk to Freddie himself through a spirit medium!

But the whole idea of the night is about fun and to remember the late great Freddy Mercury, and what a better way to do this than in Fancy dress?

Guilty Pleasures presents: A Night of a Thousand Freddies at One Central Street on Friday 7 September between 10pm-3am. Presented by Sean Rowley, Flotsam and Jetsam and Father Jesmond, entrance costs £6, with a free Freddie moustache on entry. Rock on.

For some fancy dress ideas try Jokers’ Masquerade Freddy Mercury Costumes