Titanic day at school - costume help!!

[heymango]

Am so rubbish at this sort of thing - DS1 has Titanic day at school on Wednesday and we need a costume!

Have you style queens any ideas on what and where to get something? We are not in
London!

Have got to go to bed now as head is about to explode from stress!

Thanks so much.

[heymango]

He's 7 by the way.

[thisisyesterday]

dress in white and be an iceberg

[VoidofDiscovery]

wet!

[Shaz10]

Put a fish in his hair?

Titanic Day? Ye gods...

[tethersend]

Titanic day?

Will it be Hindenberg day next term?

Oh, the humanity!

[SuSylvester]

god htat is tasteless

[ReshapeWhileDamp]

...Titanic Day? Is this what's in store for me when DS grows up a bit?

Jeez, it's enough to make me home-school!

I like the iceberg suggestion best. Or maybe make a life preserver with the ship's name on it and put it round neck?

...no, that really is tacky.

[thisisyesterday]

or don't send him in, and say he wasn't a survivor?

[Shaz10]

thisisyesterday I think we have a winner!

[Rockbird]

Titanic Day?? The one where over 1500 people drowned? And they are dressing up??. This is a joke, right?

[PollyTechnique]

Striped blazer - deckchair?

Is this thread a wind-up?

[donnie]

well it sank in 1912 so look for clothes of that era.

[Tellhimhesdreaming]

Cardboard violin - one of the musicians? Could make it out of empty cake mix box with a ruler sticking out.
Agree it's a pretty hideous theme though.

[heymango]

Not a great reaction, I gather!

No, it's not a wind-up - they have been studying the subject in history, so don't think it's exactly a celebration, but I take your points.

Perhaps we should boycott it on the grounds of poor taste and give up the search.

[sweetkitty]

It is tasteless IMVHO

A bit like plague day

I thought World Book Day was bad enough

[Rockbird]

At work we teach the Holocaust and we've had a good few teachers over the years ask if it could be more interactive with dressing up etc (yr 9+). I always thought these teachers were a bit thick. Maybe they're the norm if this is the way they teach things.

I would boycott and make my feelings known. I can't see any reason at all why dressing up is a part of this.

[Shaz10]

Rockbird OMG! What are you supposed to dress up as on Holocaust Day?
mind boggles

[shallishanti]

will either be in v poor taste or v traumatic- someone has not thought this through, I think. Can you claim to have had a relative on the Titanic, see what they say then?

[foxytocin]

Couldn't they call it Edwardian Era instead?
There are sites selling appropriate costumes for children for this era.

Just dress him up as a chimney sweep.

[Miggsie]

If they want to bring the drama home to them they could throw buckets of water over the kids and lock them in a freezer?

Or get 15 teachers trying to get into a boat that holds 4?

It does sound really unthought out and insensitive.

Are they going to have the school orchestra playing all day to accompany the lessons?

Dear me.

My flabber couldn't be more ghasted.

[cuddlysoutheastastra]

my ds(8) would love this, he is obsessed with the titanic.

[cuddlysoutheastastra]

it's quite educational when you look right into it - sister ships, design faults, fashion, hierachy of passengers etc.