The Wide World of Mens Fancy Dress

The Wide World of Mens Fancy Dress

The Wide World of Mens Fancy Dress

When peering in at the world of men's fancy dress, there are a number of ways in which you can describe the costumes that you would see; sexy to surreal, poorly executed to downright ridiculous. I was once told by somewhat of an expert in this field that "once a guy has an idea that his costume will be ridiculous, there is then no limit to how ridiculous it will be". This means that for male fancy dress outfits there is what can only be described as a vast range of realism, outrageousness, adult humour and just plain silliness to choose from! The nature of man is that all are very viable candidates for his costume.

Realistic men's outfits are naturally a very popular way to go; a big part of this tends to centre around uniforms - Army and navy officer fancy dress are both very cool, as are pilots or police costumes, not only do you look good but you can also appease your inner man-child who was always angry at you for having grown up and stopped playing with guns and helicopters. Another big part of this is to just dress up as someone who you always wanted to be, for example last week I watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, so obviously this week I'm chewing a cigar, wearing a poncho and scowling at everybody. This type of fancy dress naturally includes the pirates, cowboys, Indians, and many other ideas from equally awesome male figures.

If realistic men's outfits are one side of the fancy dress coin, outrageous outfits are the other side. I mentioned earlier that once the decision has been made to be ridiculous then there is no limit to just how ridiculous that results in - be it a giant baby's pink onesie, one degree or another of convincing drag, or simply enough body paint to camouflage an elephant. These tend to be the type of fancy dress costumes that suggests that dignity should take a back seat for the evening, because who needs shame when you're dressed as a giant hot dog... This is a much more fun kind of fancy dress and it tends to be accompanied with both a fair amount of alcohol and a lot of laughs. The big hurdle however for these types of costumes is, as mentioned, of course for the men wearing them to initially make the decision that the theme will be ridiculous, because this type of male fancy dress is far removed from the realistic cool looking outfits outlined earlier.

Overlapping with the outrageous costumes is naturally the adult humour fancy dress, when outfits start to take a very blue route, costumes from this genre can sometimes be elegant, well crafted plays on words and sayings and sometimes, they just plain aren't. Similar to the outrageous costumes, these are outfits where pride doesn't really get a say in what goes on because everything else is having far too much fun! These fancy dress costumes are most commonly sighted at infamous "Bad Taste Parties"; obviously it's not everyone's cup of tea however it does make one hell of a conversation starter.

So having covered a few of the bases of what is a big blue fancy dress ocean of men's costumes it shows the sheer potential of themes and ideas for mens fancy dress parties, from the authentic to the ridiculous. Who can really say which is better, but both are definitely a lot of fun!

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