Great Britain Fancy Dress Costumes

Includes Fever All that Glitters Rule Britannia Costume, Blue, includes Sequined Union Jack Dress. Please note that all our Smiffys products will always come in full Smiffys branded packaging.

Get you morphsuit on. They're perfect for parties, Halloween and events where you want to stand out. morphsuits come in 70 different colours and patterns, from black to blue, tuxto tie-dye there is a morphsuit for every occasion, parties to prom, charity runs to Christmas, Halloween to happy birthdays, stag weekends to student nights, sports events to just going down to the shops to pick up the milk. are the costume phenomenon taking over the world. Morphsuits are all-in-one lycra suits that cov... [Read More]

This expanded and updated edition of John Peacock’s unrivaled collection of drawings ranges over eleven centuries of English historical costume. More than a thousand illustrations, based on surviving garments and contemporary paintings and photographs, demonstrate the astonishing changes in men’s and women’s clothing over the centuries―from the simple tunics and gowns of the eleventh century to the petticoat breeches and ostrich-plumed hats of Charles II’s reign to the T-shirts and sho... [Read More]

This inventive and lucid book sheds new light on topics as diverse as crime, authority, and retailing in eighteenth-century Britain, and makes a major contribution to broader debates around consumerism, popular culture, and material life. The material lives of ordinary English men and women were transformed in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. Tea and sugar, the fruits of British mercantile and colonial expansion, altered their diets. Pendulum clocks and Staffordshire po... [Read More]

Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero's otherness and empowers its wearers to seek a primal form of justice.This book provides the first interdisciplinary analysis of the superhero costume and investigates wide-ranging issues such as identity, otherness, ritual dress and disguise. Analysis focuses on the implications of wearing superhero costume, exploring interpretations of the costumed hero an... [Read More]

The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not. This book - the most popular of Natalie Bray's three works - covers the basic course and includes measurement and block patterns, circular patterns, simple pattern designing,... [Read More]

This Murray of Atholl Ancient genuine tartan cloth notebook has 176pp of 80gsm cream paper, with left page plain, right page ruled. With a ribbon marker, an expandable inner note pocket, elastic enclosure, a leaflet about the history of tartan, and a colourful bookmark with a brief history of the Murray of Atholl Ancient tartan. Comes in a light plastic wrapper bag. Scientists, thinkers and writers in the Scottish Enlightenment used 'commonplace notebooks' to record thoughts and ideas. Many Brit... [Read More]

This Kinloch Anderson genuine tartan cloth notebook has 176pp of 80gsm cream paper, with left page plain, right page ruled. With a ribbon marker, an expandable inner note pocket, elastic enclosure, a leaflet about the history of tartan, and a colourful bookmark with a brief history of the Kinloch Anderson tartan. Comes in a light plastic wrapper bag. Scientists, thinkers and writers in the Scottish Enlightenment used 'commonplace notebooks' to record thoughts and ideas. Many British writers such... [Read More]

Look great in a durable and high quality costume from Karnival! These costumes are great for any costume party during the year or for Halloween. Costumes ensure a long lasting costume for years. Not only can it be used for Halloween, it can also be used as a theatre costume for plays and skits. The costume also comes in a resealable bag to ensure it stays fresh and away from clothes moths and environmental wear and tears. Spot Clean only, as a washing machine can diminish the cloth.

Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume is a practicalguide featuring patterns for the most important garments worn by menbetween the 16th and 19th centuries. Easy-to-follow instructionsexplain how to cut patterns for 'average' and individual measurements -with expert advice on how to adapt patterns to fit men of all shapesand sizes.Introductions to each section describe the major developments inmen's dress - revealing how garments evolved - and patterns for periodgarments for which there are no actua... [Read More]