Have you got a fancy dress party to go to and a small budget to create a costume with? Well there are lots of cheap fancy dress options for you to consider. You can either buy a budget fancy dress costume or create your own using clothes you already have and some cheap accessories. Which way you go really depends on the theme you need to make a costume for, how creative you’re feeling and how much time you have.
If you have the time (and inclination) to go round the charity shops you can pick up some real bargains and then add to the clothes with accessories made especially for the costume or theme you’ve chosen. If you haven’t got much time you can just order a budget costume online and get it delivered straight to you, usually even the next day. You can also order your accessories online so you don’t even have to leave the house. Then try your costume on with all the components put together and make sure you look the part.
Some easy themes to create fancy dress outfits for using charity shops are decades, for example 70’s or 80’s. You can often easily pick up a pair of cheap flares and a flowery shirt for a 70’s costume and then accessories with a big afro or other 70’s style wig. Guys you can buy 70’s style moustaches and for ladies it’s even easier to accessorise cheaply as you can wear false eyelashes and use black eyeliner to create 70’s style make up. If you want to put together a cheap 80’s costume you can search the charity shops for hot pants, leg warmers, ra-ra skirts, jackets with shoulder pads and it’s easy to re-create 80’s style hair or buy an 80’s wig.
Another easy theme to create cheap fancy dress outfits for is a James Bond theme as most men already own a suit and you can wear this and accessorise with a toy gun and maybe a gun holster. Ladies can wear a cocktail or long dress, or choose a Bond girl that they can be by using their own clothes, for example if you ride horses and own jodhpurs you could wear a white shirt and be Pussy Galore.
Another great way to create authentic but cheap fancy dress costumes is by buying a face mask to add an outfit that you already have. You can get all sorts of full-face and half face masks including film characters, such as from Harry Potter and Star Wars, cartoon characters, political figures, royalty, rock stars, Halloween masks and generic masks such as old men and ladies, pirates, etc. You can also get eye masks that could be a good idea for a fancy dress ball.
Wigs are also great accessories to make a fancy dress costumes cheaply as you can get just about any sort of wig – long, short, coloured, styled, afro. You can get 1920’s, 70’s, 80’s, punk, party, fairytale, movie star, story book, classic and character wigs for ladies. You can get judges, monks, teddy boys, cavemen, rock stars, pop stars, clowns, rastas or wizard wigs for men to name just a few. The list of ideas really is endless. Men can also add moustaches and beards to change their appearance and make funny costumes cheaply.
If you’d rather just buy a complete costume, ready to wear but you’re on a tight budget you can get fantastic budget costumes in just about any theme. You can still add to these costumes with make up and other accessories that you already have.