Fancy dress for girls

[catgirl1976]

I have seen a few threads bemoaning the poor choice of fancy dress costumes avaliable in the shops for girls.

So when I found this I felt I ought to share it

(Although you could totally make your own for a heck of a lot less than £50!)

You don't fancy Catwoman or Princess Leia then?

I find the choice for boys far worse! It's basically police, fireman or tv character. At least the girls stuff is sparkly and interesting, who wants a mini fluorescent jacket???

I like it. It's a good change from the usualy 'Sparkly princess who will need rescuing' theme. Or bloody pink feather boas that shed feathers all over my house (which the BiL bought just to piss me off)

"who wants a mini fluorescent jacket"

My DSs love them ...

surley you just buy them whatever they want and try to get a variety? i dont buy the whole boys/girls thing for fancy dress, we just buy what they like.

we have a HUGE selection (charity shops are great for bargains!) we have scooby doo, darth vader, police, fireman, woody, buzz, monsters, fairy dresses, and many many more! h&m do some cheap princess style dresses. we also have a variety of big bits of material and hats and wigs etc, mainly chairty shop and they just fiddle around and make up their own costumes.

and yes you can make stuff, i bought some lovely purple fabric and then sewed stars onto it and made some great wizard capes, simple and cheap and very easy to do, tho i did curse when sewing on the stars! :)

Maybe it's just me who thinks a fluorescent jacket is boring then! I just meant that there isn't much sparkle in boys fancy dress - I have a boy so we are not drowning in pink or sparkles. I buy both gender stuff from charity shops but he refuses to put on the dresses and I find the emergency services stuff so dull! Plus I find it weird that boys are expected to dress up as rescuers and superheroes whilst girls are princesses, the stereotyping is just too much for me.

well i have 5 kids, no 1 never really liked dress up at all, ds2 liked it but army stuff and superhero stuff, ds3 lOVES it and is into fairy and princess stuff! ds4 also a big fan but into woody and buzz and animal type costumes, so we have a huge variety. as long as you have a variety and he is making his own choices about what he wants to put on, i think that is all you can do :)

Er hmm, dressing up is a way to make a fantasy partly come to life, so if these are the things kids like, what is it saying they aspire to?

But cheers for the middle mad thing. At least he's somewhat willing to to step out of line.

anyone notice how that advert for suffragette dress-up keeps banging on about how 'fun' and 'pretty' the outfit is and how 'girly girls' will love it...?

DS's fav fancy dress costumes are a dinosaur (made by me) and a set of Drs scrubs given as a present (as daddy is a dr) I think both are pretty good and both boys and girls like them when we've been to parties.
We've got various bits and pieces tho in a dressing up box and tend to not buy the full shop outfits.
DS tends to pick a random idea out of the air for costumes and gullible me attempts to put something together. I'm passible on a sewing machine and have loads of fabric tho.
They don't tend to be gender stereotype things though, more leftfield.... Dinosaur, tree, rocket, balloon, spider, dancer,

yes its fantasy, its play, role play and as it happens ds2 at times has expressed a desire to join the army and so what if he did its a perfectly reasonble career choice, he also likes the idea of being a professional footballer or presenting top gear. its all ideas and imagination, it doesnt necessarily say anything about what they aspire to be and certainly not in the younger child, ds4 is 4 so he likes woody and buzz costumes as they are currently his favourite toys and film, its really that simple!

and i am pretty sure ds3 doesnt actually want to be a fairy when he grows up, he is just a big fan of tinkerbell and has lots of schleich fairy figures that he likes to play with, but hey at least he got a'cheers' as interestingly when i did a thread on it on here i was slated for letting him dress up in a fairy costume!