[Closed] Fancy dress - I don’t get it!

Dress up as Dick Dastardly. Purely because its funny and will get a laugh. No deeper meaning than that.

There was a festival called 'Endorset in Dorset', it ran for a few years and was a great weekend away.

Sunday was always ladies day which involved all men dressing as ladies. My first time there I decided to take the same stance that you have and basically stood out like a great big grumpy thumb.

The next year I embraced it, got over myself and had a cracking laugh.

Go on, dress up ya big grump.

Is dressing up mandatory?

It's a bit of fun, is all.  I expect that plenty of the people who enjoy it don't get the appeal of riding bikes.  It'd be boring if we were all the same.

I don't get it either. It's an awful lot of palaver to spend an evening with people you'd be spending the evening with anyway.

Fancy dress – I don’t get invited!

It’s a bit of fun, is all.

if that's true why do people at fancy dress parties get so uppety when you don't want to join in. Or, if you don't go because you don't enjoy it, you're Mr boring?

Wear a dark polo shirt and tell everyone you've come as Mike the Barman out of Only Fools and Horses

Fancy dress is always good fun - partly because the planning is funny well before the actual event itself.
But because everyone basically looks like a t*** anyway people are usually laughing at themselves and get straight into the party immediately instead of the usual few drinks/polite chat etc before it gets going. Its also an instant ice breaker and conversation starter with people you don't know.

I sort of get why people don't like it, but whenever people turn up to these things without dressing up they are always the only ones who don't look like they are having any fun at all.

Its just a bit of a laugh after all!

I don't get how people don't get it!

People do it cos it's fun, like loads of other things like dancing, playing football, or riding bikes.

One thing that's a thing is fancy dress pubcrawlers, now a mainstream and not just student activity. Along the Otley run (classic leeds student crawl which, despite living on the route and drinking in all the pubs, I'd never heard of back in the day) the main industries now are kebabs, minicabs and fancy dress shops.

I'm sure it's possible to get most of the way through a degree these days dressed as a sexy bee (yes, sexy bee. What's that about).

I remember my first fancy dress party just after uni with now an ex. The invite said Prince and Princess party, fancy dress required. I did not really want to go as I did not know any of her friends, but I thought I'd make an effort. So started to make a suit of armour out of cardboard, sprayed and got myself a kids shield and sword. I looked the nuts. Turned up to said party.... every other male was wearing a Tux. I felt like a right royal plum. I would have been even more annoyed had it not been for my sword that made battle noises as I slashed it from side to side later when I was dancing. I did get extra boyfriend points at the time though and all her female friends loved it. Her male friends just thought I was some childish t**t.

I dress as a Pet Pony and have kids paint and put glitter on me.

Just go to the Members Meeting instead if you don’t want to join in

What could possibly go wrong?

Godwin and out

What i get even less yhan the people who don't get it.

People who travel in civvies and get changed!

Take a female friend and wear "normal" clothes. Explain that you've come as a tortoise, and "this is Michelle"

every other male was wearing a Tux

I'd have gone for the velvet suit and ejaculating guitar look myself...

So STW, come dressed as your favourite despot or disgraced public figure.

So STW, come dressed as your favourite despot or disgraced public figure.

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You're not the real thing on a tweed ride unless you're wearing Harris Tweed underpants... 🙂

Re the photo of Harry above, would anyone kick off if someone turned up as Herr Flick or any other Nazi in ‘Allo ‘Allo? Or maybe some bloke from Raiders of the Lost Ark?

would anyone kick off if someone turned up as Herr Flick or any other Nazi in ‘Allo ‘Allo? Or maybe some bloke from Raiders of the Lost Ark?

There's something about swastikas that gives people a very extreme emotional response. I suspect it's their relationship to mass murder, genocide, etc. Problem is, even if you're dressed as a Nazi to be "ironic", it's pretty much certain that a lot of people won't realize you are a funny Nazi from a TV show, not a scary Nazi from real life. Easier just to do Darth Vader or something, surely.

@ matt_outandabout - Oh no what's the old trollop been up to? Cupping Hollywoods balls when he bends down to open the oven door eh.

I just don’t get it either.  I don’t see how it is any more fun than going to a party dressed normally.

I don’t have a problem with it though - at least not until some irritating git calls me “boring” for “not joining in the fun”.  😉

Purely because its funny and will get a laugh.

Not if you go as a piece of door furniture, apparently... 🧐

if that’s true why do people at fancy dress parties get so uppety when you don’t want to join in. Or, if you don’t go because you don’t enjoy it, you’re Mr boring?

Do they though? I have never seen anyone be 'uppety' nor been 'uppety' myself when seeing someone not joining in. Perhaps it's just the circle of friends you have?

The best fancy dress I ever did was a Christmas party - I made two huge (one for me, one for the then girlfriend) balls made from wire mesh and paper mâché. Mine was then painted as a Christmas Pudding, hers as a snowball. They were so big we only had the bottoms of our legs, arms and heads sticking out of them. The sounds of the car horns as we walked to our local pub in them was hilarious. When we'd finished with them we gave them to our local theatre group to use as props 🙂

I used to always baulk at fancy dress and try and do it on the cheap. Now I fully embrace it and have a much more enjoyable time.

I think my best effort was Rocky Horror for my 30th. my friends were supposed to be dressing up but when we met then at the Japanese restaurant before hand they were in normal clothes and I felt a little bit embarrassed for the waitress at the restaurant (I did have a lab coat on). When we got to the theatre the tables were turned and they were the ones out of place and we had a great time dressed up.

I had a lot of people asking pose for photos with me in the bar before and after the show, I would post photos but it's a bit early in the day...

Sorry I just don’t t get it. I’ve even tried to understand it by getting dressed up and going to sad parties.

ftfy

Same as Christmas jumpers, why would I waste my money on an awful thing like that?

One of our mates does a fancy dress ‘Shedfest’ every year. This years theme was heroes and villains.

Among all the superhero outfits, I went as Donald Trump. Polo shirt, chinos, Orange fake tan, daft blond combover wig and a ‘make America great again’ baseball cap.

My daughters said it was the most disturbing thing they’d ever seen! 😃

I usually like it. I especially like getting the night bus home afterwards

Re the photo of Harry above, would anyone kick off if someone turned up as Herr Flick or any other Nazi in ‘Allo ‘Allo?

That's already been done, and yes people did kick off when some tv presentery person done it.

One thing that’s a thing is fancy dress pubcrawlers, now a mainstream and not just student activity.

as students we went on a pub crawl in St Helens in fancy dress. Possibly ahead our time a little - it was a '70s' theme. But this was in the mid 80s.

To a casual observer it wasn't entirely clear whether we were in fancy dress or not. Or at least it would have been if it wasn't for Dave. He'd not entirely grasped the theme - and elected for just anything from the 70s rather than just clothing from the 70s.

Basically we looked like the cast from Life on Mars..... but with a guest appearance by Dylan from the Magic Roundabout.

I quite enjoy a "themed" do something my friends tend to do - a little different from fancy dress.  The 650s wedding was good - I bought a drapecoat that I always wanted.  Plenty of folk in tweeds and trilbys, a few dressed from grease!

I totally get it, so well that yesterday I got presented a prize for it by the Mayor of Tenby 😎

I love it. I love thinking of what to go as, building the outfit and looking daft with all my mates. I can also see why people hate it. You look daft and if it's not a fancy dress party or you're just at a club with a group in fancy dress it attracts attention that you might not want .

I have never climbed out of a car, to confront a man hitting his labrador, whilst dressed in a tartan Jimmy wig, Arran jumper and long tartan skirt for the annual Burns night at the MRT base RAF Kinloss (tartan mandatory)

I have also not seen such a bemused look on someone's face since😂

I must be doing something <span style="font-size: 0.8rem;"> wrong. I'm now 40 and havn't been invited to a fancy dress party for at least 30 years. </span>

I like them.. gives you a chance to be creative/show your sense of humour.. previous attempts include 2 Girls 1 Cup, Lieutenant Dan (with 2 stumps, yep I'm going to hell..), Freaky man baby with a babies body and my head, a Sex Robot.. I always find there's a couple of guys there who start the night sneering at you along the lines of "You all look like a bunch of tw*ts" but a few drinks later get sh*tty with you because you won't lend them your hat/wig/whatever cos they feel out of place..

My old company used to have themed days... most managers and anyone who had to meet suppliers/clients skipped it as we (rightly I think) assumed it was a bit shit and had potential to cause problems. Our HR manager once fired three people whilst dressed in his pyjamas... I was surprised it didn't end up with a union involved.