AIBU to want a fancy dress costume that isn't skin tight and does cover my bum?

[YonWhaleFish]

Well?! Am I?

YANBU! I had to get a fancy dress costume for a Halloween party about 3 months after having DS, nearly all the ladies costumes are skin tight, cleavage exposing, crotch skimming efforts that you'd need to be 19 and a size 6 to wear. Not 33, a size 14 with a post baby belly and leaky boobs.

I spend most of my year in one costume or another. None of them are skin tight or don't cover my bum. There are alternatives!!

Where may I find such items Pandemoniaa? I can't find any!

I suppose I ought to admit that I mainly make them.

AIBU to want a fancy dress costume that isn't skin tight and does cover my bum?

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I suppose I ought to admit that I mainly make them

Eh? Do you only have the "vicars and tarts" patterns?

Vicars and tarts are easy!

It's medieval that gets complicated.

I'm going on a rugby tour next weekend with the U14'2 team. They've chosen NINJAS as their theme, lol! Goodness knows what I'm going to wear. Sounds like everyone is wearing morphsuits! What a thought!!

I agree! I fucking LOATHE "sexy" fancy dress costumes, for myriad reasons.

1. They often try to make things that are not sexy 'sexy' i.e bumble bees/ladybirds/nurses/nuns. Wrong.
2. Cheapola, sweat-inducing fabric.
3. They come in one size fits all. Yeah, 'one size fits all THIN women'
4. They are blatantly made by men, for men.
5. They are overpriced.

Exactly Buppers! I may have to resort to digging out the old sewing machine!

Ninjas? Piece of piss. Everyone has black stuff in their cupboards. Drag out an old black hoodie and stick it over leggings/trackies. Add a sash round your waist and a headband with some random Ninjalike (Far Eastern) characters painted on it. Bobsyeruncle.

YANBU. it's as if only porn stars need fancy dress.

Why don't you dress up as a 50's housewife? Pencil skirt, an apron, some oven gloves and heels. Finish off with red lipstick and a bun.

Red hoodie from Primark. Big hoop earrings. Tight jeans.

Little red riding hoodie.

Our local theatre has a fancy dress hire bit, with all the costumes from past productions, maybe worth checking yours?

Black dress + Pointy hat = Witch. Taa-daa!

Make your own Tis the only way. We've had a Mushroom, a Palm Tree, The Ugly Sisters, Witches and WIzards, Clown etc. Lots of time and effort, but always the best recieved.

Thanks for the suggestions folks!

Just cut some holes in a sheet, chuck it over your head and be a ghost.

Don't turn up and say you went as the invisible woman

YANBU I have been arguing for years that you don't see enough people dressed as <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.fancydressball.co.uk/big_images1/tomato-costume-9507.jpg&imgrefurl=www.fancydressball.co.uk/funny-costumes/food-and-drink/tomato-costume-9507.htm&h=1200&w=600&sz=156&tbnid=q65NySYjhr1H-M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=45&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtomato%2Bfancy%2Bdress%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=tomato+fancy+dress&docid=jKoTmdX3UxUY0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q8hgT5-JEuLK0QWeup2GBw&ved=0CJwBEPUBMAw&dur=19" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tomatoes any more.

Or, if you have a friend called Michelle, just piggy-back her around with you (Turtle: who's that? That's Me-shell)

Oh god no I am right with you

I am far too old for the horrors of Leg Avenue

Plus I have reached a stage in my life where I think a fabric that gives off sparks of static electricty because it is so cheap is not sexy, no matter how fecking short it is

And finally - could sometome explain to me WRAF is sexy about a bee. A. BEE.???

Fancy Dress, really, is mainly used as an excuse to go out dressed in your underwear.