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Thank you for shopping at cheap fancy dress, we are an online store offering the very latest in fancy dress at the cheapest prices.

We have 1000’s off Halloween costumes in stock ranging from all sizes small to plus size and prices from as little as £4.99. All our Halloween costumes are sold at cheap prices with no compromise to the quality of the costumes.

We offer a massive range of costumes for Halloween from the classic devils to the latest craze of the Zombies!  Our kids Halloween range is truly fantastic in ages 3 months up to teenagers.

If you’re looking for Halloween accessories maybe face paint, blood or even just fangs, I’m sure we will have just the right accessories in stock for you.

Our  Halloween range is in stock now with next day delivery available, just visit us at http://www.cheapfancydress.co.uk/halloween-costumes.html or call our customer service team on 0844 800 9470,  we are waiting to take your call.

It's that time of year again , yes its British summertime and today (June 21st) is officially the longest day of the year known as summer solstice when the sun is at its northernmost point in the sky giving us more daylight.

With summertime comes festival time and here in the UK we do love a festival come rain or shine.

Probably the most well known of all the festivals is of course Glastonbury which this year will be held from June 26-30th. But as well as Glastonbury there are many many more festivals taking place in month of June.

Festivals are a great place to have fun and dress up in a fancy dress themes, our biggest selling theme for festivals this years seems to be  Hawallian fancy dress leis and grass skirts, cannabis garlands, floral hair bands and lots of inflatable fun toys.

Lets take a look around the UK and see what happing in the world of Festivals in June 2013 -

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GLASTONBURY 2013, WEDNESDAY 26TH - SUNDAY 30TH JUNE

Festival Name Glastonbury Festival   

Location - Worthy Farm Pilton

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Festival Name - Funny As Folk 2013

 Funny As Folk -

Start Date  28th June 2013 End Date 30th June 2013

 Location Cabourne Parva, Lincolnshire Wolds

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Festival Name  Ymuno Festival 2013

Ymuno Festival 2013

Start Date- 5th July 2013    End Date - 7th July 2013

 Location - Rhyd y Foel, Abergele, Conwy, North Wales

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 Festival Name - Rhythmtree World Music Festival

Rhythmtree World Music Festival

Start Date 19th July    2013 End Date 21st July 2013

Location - Three Gates Farm, Isle of Wight, PO40 4NA

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Festival Name  Farm Festival 2013

Farm festival 2013

Start Date 26th July 2013 End Date 27th July 2013

Location Gilcombe Farm, Bruton, Somerset

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We've noticed that fancy dress parties where the theme is a particular letter are becoming increasingly popular so thought we'd try and go through the alphabet for when you get invited to a letter party so let's start at the very beginning and give you some costume ideas for fancy dress beginning with the letter A. Take a look and please let us know if you can think of any more...

A

Avatar

Adam Ant

Alien

Army Man/Woman

Alice In Wonderland

Angry Birds

Captain America

Animal From The Muppets

Arab

Astronaut

Achilles

Angel

Abba

Arwen (Lord Of The Rings)

Andy (Little Britain)

So where did it all begin....

Every year the fancy dress and costume market is increasing and has evolved from people making costumes of their own to an industry with thousands of different costumes to choose from but when and how did we start dressing up?

It is believed that in Britain fancy dress or costume parties as they can be known, can be traced as far back as the 18th century masked balls, even now masquerade eye masks are still very popular, but became more modern and familiar in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Fancy dress parties started to become more common amongst the general population in the 1940s and really took off in the 1970s when costumes were largely home made before better quality and licensed costumes became available for people to hire for their event.

It wasn't until the late 1990s that the fashion switched from hiring costumes to the current trend of purchasing costumes and accessories which with the import of overseas costumes started to become much more affordable and coupled with an increase in fancy dress parties and party themes have become an ever increasing market.

There are now thousands of costumes available to choose from with themes ranging from 1970's and 80's to licensed character costumes such as Elvis, Batman, Star Wars so whoever or whatever you want to dress as there will be a costume available.

Its clear to see that in a very short time fancy dress has become some what of a phenomenon and constantly evolving industry, we are all wondering where will we go from here?

Here at cheap fancy dress we are eagerly awaiting the new Superman Man Of Steel film which will hit the big screen on June 14th. The film directed by Zack Snyder will see the comic book hero who bears the famous "S" shield on his traditional red and blue costume displaying his super powers once more.

We all love a good fictional superhero film and superheroes are still one of the more popular fancy dress themes and we have got a great range of officially licensed superhero costumes including, of course, Superman himself so why not turn yourself into a 'Man Of Steel' for your next fancy dress.

Top Gun was a classic film from 1980’s it was a romantic love story. The characters in Top Gun were American Air pilots and dressed in classic green boiler suits, trendy bomber jackets with dark sexy aviator glasses, and of course we all remember the classic white Officer’s uniform and of course who that song Love lift’s us up where we belong…

Well here at cheap fancy dress we have put a range of Top Gun Costumes to suit most budgets with no compromise on quality, now the decision is who are you going to be an aviator pilot or an Officer?

View Our Full Range Of TopGun Costumes

School themed parties are getting more and more popular what with school reunions and Butlins adults only school weekends it’s no wonder it is becoming top of the list for fancy dress themes.

Here at cheap fancy dress we offer many costumes and accessories for your school theme, we have the traditional school uniforms or maybe you were the school prefect we have that costume available now too.

Dress up kits are a great way to get your school look we have school ties, school boy caps and tutus for the girls.

Don’t forget your accessories as no school look would be complete with out school specs or a catapult for you naughty school boys.

If you fancy being something different than the normal school uniform why not be the teacher or dress as a boy scout or even a Brownie.

What ever you choose have fun wearing it as fancy dress is all about fun at cheap fancy dress.

Its the film that everyone is talking about at the moment, The Great Gatsby. Directed by Baz Luhrmann, who also directed Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge, and starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. Set in the 1920s and based on a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald it is a romantic drama set in Long Island in 1922.

Bringing this adaption to the big screen has reignited an interest in 1920s fashion and all the wonderful styles of that era including flapper dresses, Charleston dresses and men's gangster suits.

To allow you to re-create your very own Gatsby style we have put together a fantastic range of 1920s costumes for both men and women so why not make your next fancy dress party a Great Gatsby Theme.

Welcome to our brand new website! Browse our amazing costumes online and get in touch if you have any questions.

Cheap Fancy Dress Team