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Birthday party celebrations are also events that can be celebrated with fancy dress costume parties. Fancy dress events can even flow over into the corporate world when holding Christmas parties or celebrating a company's anniversary. In the U.S., schools and universities also hold a lot of costume parties for their proms and dances. In the U.K fancy dress parties are extremely popular and are held all through the year, regardless of the event. Halloween is also extremely popular in the U.K. and celebrated with costume parties, but these kinds of parties are also held on a regular basis to celebrate any occasion. The popularity of fancy dress parties even extend to the Royal family's birthday parties.
With themed parties being so popular, people who go to these parties, as well as costume makers, have created costumes that are a lot more professional and versatile. Listed below are the most commonly used fancy dress outfits to wear to costume parties today.
The most popular of the fancy dress costumes today are those from the 70's and 80's. The costumes of these eras are popular for different reasons; the 70's costumes have become a craze and stayed as a staple of costume parties, the 80's costume gained popularity with the trends of that era coming back into mainstream fashion. Your costume can seem all the more realistic if you impact your look by using popular trends from the eras like afros for the 70's and shoulder pads for the 80's.
Dressing up like royalty is very popular in the United Kingdom so a lot of costumes from the Victorian and Edwardian eras are worn. To dress up as a Queen of a past era not only celebrates history but also provides decadent feel for the ladies wearing the costumes. The most common trend from past eras are corsets, big skirts with petticoats for the ladies and wigs for the men, these trends are seen in all the fancy dress outfits reflecting this era. Costumes created with a medieval feel tend to reflect the knights and princesses that were so popular during this era. Fancy dress parties using past eras as a theme can transport the guests to another time and place.
Another popular trend at the moment is to attend a fancy dress party dressed up as your favorite pop star. The most recognised pop star costumes are those of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Elvis Presley. Other popular costumes are movie or television characters. Then there are the classic costumes that never go out of fashion, for example firefighter costumes, Cowboy and Indian outfits or the classic bunny outfit. These costumes are considered the classics and people always seem to revert to them especially during Halloween.
