st georges day dress up at school

[olijackmum]

my 10 year old daughter has to go to school dressed up as an english famous person any ideas something easy and wont cost much

How about Olivia Newton John (Grease stylee with a cute outurned bob) .

Alice In Wonderland - she was English wasn't she?

Geri Halliwell in her famous Union Jack dress which you can pick up cheap in fancy dress stores.

Lulu

Florence Nightingale.

Olivia Newton John is Australian, isn't she?

Boudecia - tartan shawl, blanket around her neck and a sword might do it

Queen Victoria - black and a long face

Florence Nightingale would be good.

black long-sleeved top, white apron, and a lamp

although Boudecia not strictly English....

hmm who else is there?

Queen Elizabeth I

Mary Shelley (of Frankenstein fame)

Jane Austen

Katherine Ferrars (Wicked Lady - Highway-woman)

Any of the famous suffragettes?

Boudicca in tartan

ON-J is Australian...

Yes I was thinking of Emmeline Pankhurst or one of them but not sure what you'd wear to make it obvious - chains?!
Maybe a long dress with a band over one shoulder saying votes for women

I think they wore a lot of purple and green like this

I knew I would get one wrong

I'm stunned that Boudicca/Boadicea isn't "English" but haven't looked it up yet. Did that mean because she was Celt or because she was foreign? I'm from East Anglia - Boudicca is big in those parts...

Amy Whinehouse, Kerry Katona, Cheryl Cole? tee hee

LOL scurry - how about Kate Moss?

Ooops...I think I just killed that thread sorry

Margaret Thatcher

we decided last night on scary spice as she has a leopard skin dress from her dance show and i will get her an afro wig to go with it

LOL!

DS2's school has this. He wants to go as William Wallace because he's Scottish

Brilliant!! That really made me laugh... I'm quite pleased they're actually doing something for St George's Day, tbh, but I love the idea of going as William Wallace - talk about a thorn in the side of the English! (And I am English before anyone gets huffy, etc).

LOL at having a leopard skin dress and an afro wig handy...

Belle, Boudecia pre-English I suppose being a Celt, if they're being precise about it. British I suppose rther than specifically English but then we are all so mixed anyway, it's a bit ridiculous to distinguish that much these days.

I know dad was saying our family is Manx, English and even Scottish-Norwegian on his side Welsh, Irish, English on mum's side going back as far as he has been able to. I think most families in the UK are like that (if they don't have more exotic elements in the mix to really spice it up)

we didn't come up with a whole lot of famous Englishwomen though, did we? That's a bit weak of us

All the famous Englsih women through history and she wants to go as Scary Spice - I love it!

Thought ON-J was born over here but emigrated to Oz when she was young? Like Kim Catrall (born in Liverpool, emigrated to Canada)

I'd want to go as Barbara Cartland

No real idea re ON-J - just thought she was Aussie.

I was pretty horrified when I couldn't think of more "famous" or perhaps "illustrious" English women. Although, to be fair, I did steer clear of some of my lesser known historical heroines ie Mary Wollstonecroft, Elizabeth Fry, etc. Not very exciting costumes for a 10 year old!