Oh FFS. Finally partners are "allowed" to attend the work do....only for it to be cocking FANCY DRESS.

[geraldinetheluckygoat]

villians or superheroes ffs.

I look like Valma from Scooby Doo. Build and style wise! what the HELL am I going to go as?

DH says I can't go as Valma. Im buggered.

Go Disney!

Ursula from little mermaid?
Malificent, Sleeping beauty
Aunt Sarah, lady and the tramp
Madam Mim, but I doubt folk will have seen sword in the stone

www.listal.com/list/complete-list-disney-villains

Nanny Mcphee? only joking honest

Nanny McPhee!! Ha!

God.

Some of the evil queens in the disney list are quite good...but how would you even go about getting a costume together.
Ugh.

'Works do' and 'fancy dress' should only ever be in a sentence with a phrase like 'worst cocking idea in the universe.

Go as your dh's boss.

What about that strange little fashion designer person in The Incredibles? My dds say she looks like me (and I also look a bit like Valma!).

Bellatrix Lestrange?

Cruella de Ville?

Do you want something you can go as a pair in?

George and the Dragon
Cruella and a dalmation
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Batman and Robin

If I was really cool and thin and well, more cool, I would go as Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. But Im a size sixteen with ridiculous curly hair. So that wont work

Fromage I KNOW!

May go as myself. I am fucking heroic on a daily basis, actually.

batman and robin LOL!

Mr and Mrs Twit?

I did think about cruella, but I think she needs to be tall. And Im valma sized. Am I over thinking this?

Mr and Mrs Twit - eek, no would be feeling revolting all evening! but thanks for the suggestion though...

For Malificent you could make something involving two plastic cups, coat hangers and stuffing that is covered in black cloth and tied round your head. You would also need a black dress and a collar could be made to stick up with card.

Snow white queen is much easier - same collar, black or purple dress and a crown.

Do you not fancy Bellatrix? Your dh could be Lucien Malfoy.

I would come down with a dose of fictional D&V on the day and just not go.

Pah at fancy dress for adults.

We have people staying at the house that are also going, thenightsky. So if i dont go they will all annoy me coming in after the party anyway! I want to go to the party, the company usually pulls out all the stops so it will be good, its just the bloody dressing up..
Belligerentghoul not sure about bellatrix, ive not really seen any harry potter films.......

Could I go as something like scarlet ohara? Could I go as Florence Nightingale and wear a victorian dress and take a bucket and scrubbing brush??!! Is that too weird?

Florence Nightingale sounds a good idea!

I LOVE fancy dress - wish I was going!

Rosemary West?

I think I could make a great rosemary west.....if anyone has some square glasses I could borrow....
god, imagine how inappropriate that would be!!

Could I go as Nelson Mandella? Too Much?

What about bonnie and clyde? what would you wear for that?

They did ask for Villains.

Is DH up for promotion at all?

Does he have curly hair?

You can see where I'm going with this...

Oooh, check out Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot as for inspiration...

Oh, yes Bonnie & Clyde could be good. They were a stylish pair of miscreants.

The best rule for fancy dress parties is to go wearing something you feel fabulous in and just force it to fit the theme. I went to a heroes and villains party once in a lovely red evening dress and a crap plastic crown, took a fake dagger and said I was Lady Macbeth. I've also done Florence Nightingale (nice long dress (she was posh, of course) carried a lantern. No one objected) I also wore the Lady Macbeth dress for a Halloween party, with appropriately gory makeup and was "Dead wife of Henry VIII".

Alternatively, wear your best sexiest dress, and if anyone asks what you've come as,say "A bitch. Now fuck off". Obv that won't work if DH is hoping for a promotion.

I was thinking <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.grouchoreviews.com/content/films/3027/2.jpg&imgrefurl=www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/3027&usg=__qdMCao3AozCRW_mXBt0MVfjQrso=&h=402&w=465&sz=34&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=GMBOuZLjyw0OlM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbonnie%2Band%2Bclyde%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4SMSN_enGB402GB402%26biw%3D816%26bih%3D411%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=245&vpy=95&dur=2699&hovh=209&hovw=241&tx=150&ty=110&ei=A7_hTLnLGsq2hQfgnbjiDA&oei=A7_hTLnLGsq2hQfgnbjiDA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=8&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Warren Beaty and Faye Dunnaway.