BS: fancy dress ideas please?

Subject: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: pixieofdoom
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:16 AM

I've just been informed that our work Christmas party (yes I know, it's horribly early for the 'c' word) is going to have a 'night at the movies' theme. Our team (5 women, one man) have decided they want to come as a themed group. Any ideas? Women will dress as men if necessary.

It's all getting nauseatingly festive round here.............

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:35 AM

Blues Brothers

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Wesley S
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:39 AM

The Wizard of OZ.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From:
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:47 AM

Oh my PoD....Im just happy that we are having a casino night with meal and music again for our work xmas party....everything provided even fake money to play in the casino! My department has decided to go along to the works do to drink what we didn't get in our bonus'!!

I have no idea what you could go as...Hammer House of Horrors?, Rock Horror, Blues Brothers, Sister Act??...

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Alice
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:50 AM

Man in tuxedo, women in beautiful dance gowns. It could be just about any old Fred Astaire movie. Besides, you would all look fantastic.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From:
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:53 AM

Moulin Rouge...

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: gnomad
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:58 AM

Sound of Music

Six Wives of Henry VIII

Clockwork Orange

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:01 AM

Nudists.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:17 AM

Ghostbusters
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Star Wars
Lots to choose from

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Emma B
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:19 AM

any of the "Carry on" films (esp Carry on Cleo) - should be a laugh!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Emma B
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:20 AM

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:26 AM

Stay home and go as "The Invisible Man".

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: GUEST,Mr. Fancy Pants
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:35 AM

I think this is very exciting pixieofdoom. A business Christmas function were you dress up in movie themes. I personally like the nostalgic look when it comes to movie themr galas. With this in saying, and the times we are living in, a gray and white approach would be more appropriate. My suggestion is the movie On the Waterfront. Think of it, you can go as Marlon Brando !

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:40 AM

Glorious Seven (two KIA); one has to shave his head like Yul Brynner.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:44 AM

Gone With The Wind
Interview With a Vampire

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:54 AM

Wizard of Oz
The Dirty Dozen
Sound of Music

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 12:04 PM

The Spinners!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 12:06 PM

If you wish to save money and if you work in an office, think of a movie about life in the office, then go dressed in your office clothes. In order not to seem to be thumbing your nose at authority, wear any red and green office clothes you already own.

How much you wanna bet the whole idea is dropped before the big day?

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 12:11 PM

Bosses dress as workers and workers dress as bosses.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 12:12 PM

tee hee....... poor you! I like the Rocky Horror idea.......that'll learn 'em!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 12:47 PM

Ah.....9 to 5! LOL! Who gets to be the Dolly Parton character???

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Micca
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 04:43 PM

Try wearing nothing but Black Gloves and Black shoes and go as the "5 of Spades"?

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 04:44 PM

Micca....behave. I think PoD wants sensible ideas....well more sensible than yours!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 05:13 PM

Orange faces, Green wigs made of a paper mache, white overalls.
Voila = Umpa Lumpa's.
Also has the benefit of saying you work for a right Charlie.

Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 05:19 PM

Serious Suggestion It should be easy to do and can be more suggestive than actually rude

St Trinians: The man could dress as either Flash Harry or and more appropriatly as Alaister Sims Character The Headmistress

Only problem it gives Pixie a legitimate excuse to go armed with a hockey stick. Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 05:26 PM

Wear some clothes!!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 05:39 PM

Bugsy malone not only do you get to dress up in roaring twenties flapper girls you get to sing songs.

Only problem it gives Pixie a legitimate excuse to go armed with a Custard pie. Cllr

pie = paper plate and a spraycan of aerated cream + christmas party well see end of film

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 06:55 PM

Flesh Gordon...wait, that's an old XXX flick.

Robin Hood: Men In Tights.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 07:01 PM

Another from the twenties or a possibly more risque set of outfits either flapper or corsets etc.
The Film Chicago

You have the female Murderesses from the song "I didn't do it"
as well as Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart
   Nickie, Liz, Annie, June, Hunyak (foriegn one), also if one of your ladies would rather take a more subdued costume gray suit would do it, there is the prison governer Matron Mama Morton. For the male there is   Billy Flynn as played by Richard Gere. or possibly Amos Hart Roxie's husband or just simply a corpse belonging to one on the women.

Only problem it gives Pixie a legitimate excuse to go around as a murdering female Oh.. Hang on. Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 07:06 PM

Speaking of Monty Python what about "Life of Brian" where the women are all dressed up as men to go the stoning. Fairly easy to do false beards and robes and your single man could be the person being stoned.

Only problem it gives Pixie a legitimate excuse to go armed with load of rocks. Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 07:15 PM

There is of course the christmas classic "Rudolph the rednose raindeer" You could get everyone to wear a rack of Antlers which are quite easy to get hold of this time of year (usually brown felt like dealy boppers) and your man to get a glowing red nose (something left over from red nose day or from a joke shop) to play Rudolph,the rest could be Donner Prancer Vixen etc,etc.

Only problem it gives Pixie a legitimate excuse to go around with a big rack. Cllr ** runs and ducks** I'll get my coat

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 07:34 PM

I threw a fancy dress party once one guy came as an oil rig and some one else dressed up as the local church!!!! His head stuck out of the steeple.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: The Walrus
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 10:52 PM

I'd favour any of the old black and white movies of the Astaire/Rogers class (gents* in white tie, laadies in evening gowns) or of the 'Roaring Twenties'/'Public Enemy' class (gents either double breasted suits and fedoras or d/b DJ/Tuxedos, ladies either 1920s 'flapper' or evening dress), BUT do it all in shades of black, grey and white with neutral grey cosmetics for everyone.
Alternatively, pick a silent film, again, all in a black and white theme, white face for all with heavily made up eyes and everyone carrying a small blackboard and chalk for communication (unless you can get 'titles' some other way).

Walrus

Of course, if the only man is bald (or can wear a bald wig) Turn up as the Siamese court in 'The King and I'


* Plural if SOs are invited

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Bert
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 12:00 AM

The Grinch, seeing as it's a Christmas Party.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: pixieofdoom
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 04:41 AM

I quite like the Rocky Horror idea but I suspect some of my more conservative colleagues won't really appreciate it. The classic look sounds good too..........(I could come armed with a cigarette holder Cllr)

Thanks for your ideas everyone!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 10:43 AM

Go dressed as Groucho Marx.Then when it is all over say,"I,ve had a great evening,but this wasn,t it".

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 04:50 PM

How many people - it is always fun trying to squeeze the wrong number of people into an idea - making the Magnificant 7 from 9 people, Snow White and the 7 dwarves with a total of 5 people - somebody doubling up a two of them.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Joybell
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 05:07 PM

An appropriate one - "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (Pia Zadora fans are everywhere)
We've got the theme song words "Hurray for Santy Claus" if you need them. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 06:18 PM

Snow white and the seven dwarves from how many...when you consider you can be sneezy and happy. Grumpy and ...what the heck....there were seven dwarves in the bath and all feeling happy.......when happy jumped out they felt grumpy!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: dianavan
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 09:31 PM

The grinch is a good idea. You need only one Grinch, a Cindy Lou, and the rest can be Who's with a question mark on their shirts.

Better yet, The Matrix.

Just dress in suits with little earpieces and sunglasses.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: number 6
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 11:20 PM

Joybell .... whatever happened to Pia Zadora ??

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 11:31 PM

Black is always formal - accesorize with the same

single item,

(broach, cameo, scarf, belt, hair-pin .... to identify "the team" ....think of the item as your "logo" presented against an expanse of nothingness)

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

(nice thing about black....you can use it again in the orchestra pit.)

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Joybell
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 05:02 PM

Number 6, She's all over the web actually. There are photos of her with clothes and without - on different sites -One with her Mum (clothes on) where she's looking rather faded but still smiling in that way she has. She's very popular in Japan and Germany. I noticed that she looks a lot like many Japanese super-girls in some of her old photos.

We show a Pia Zadora double-feature for Christmas each year - "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" with Pia at age 7 and "Voyage of the Rock Aliens" when she'd grown up and married a producer. In the second feature there's a wonderful scene of girls dancing with just their feet showing under the doors of a row of toilets. (Somehow they took off their jeans without removing their panties, which are around their ankles.) They're at a school called "Heidi High" where there's a big statue of Heidi on the lawn. We surely love Pia Zadora. Hooray for Pia Zadora. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 01:56 PM

I once went to my own FDP in trainers and track suit. It was heavily populated with my divorcee friends . I was "Running Scared"

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: MuddleC
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 08:22 PM

Dear Pixe of Doom,
not knowing where you intend having you party, but realising all the men will want your group to be wearing very little... and that other people seem not to want you armed with anything... go 'commando'!

so, full combat gear, no underwear......!

I personally would opt for the 'xena' warrior princess look... but that's just me... perhaps you should go for 'G.I.Jane' or 'Private Benjamin' look (having a jar-head haircut is a bit drastic)

enjoy

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Emma B
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 07:31 AM

Pixie - I've just been sorting out all my exquisite sari's
so...........GO 'BOLLYWOOD' !

great reason to sing and dance too!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: lady penelope
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 07:48 AM

I dunno, you're all missing the obvious one..............


Resevoir Dogs!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 03:57 PM

Barbarella? Lots of good characters in there.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 06:43 AM

Duran Duran?

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: pixieofdoom
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 09:14 AM

They're now talking about going as Muppets................sounds about right for where I work *g*

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: GUEST,Dazbo
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 11:18 AM

How about shepherds and magi as it's christmas

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: lady penelope
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 01:10 PM

Scooby Doo team + Monster of your choice?

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 05:31 PM

Grab Miss Piggy quick, Pixie. She'd be fun.

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: Cllr
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 05:36 PM

HiiYA!

Subject: RE: BS: fancy dress ideas please?
From: lady penelope
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 01:17 PM

Grab a mixture of lab coats, fatigues and dressing gowns and go as characters from MASH.