Feb 21 2010
Costumes and Accessories - Have Both or Nothing at All
If you notice; everywhere you go you can find stores that cater for the many different dresses for the many different themed parties imaginable as well as personal preferences and taste. Themed parties are very popular among teens and young adults. This is because they take fashion and style as very important. They like to make fashion statement.
You can’t solely depend on the costume to make whatever character you are trying to portray come to life. Costume accessories are a must in order for you to project the persona successfully.
The incomplete feeling will haunt you if you did not match your outfit with the right accessories. Not only that, you will be frustrated if you find that not many knows what character exactly you’re trying to portray. For instance, you may be meaning to portray a magician but if you come in black tux without the magic wand, white gloves, magician hat and even tricks up your sleeves, you might just be mistaken for another man dressed in a tux. The hostess might even be wondering if you received the right invitation card. Even dressing up as angels without a pair of wings, Wolverine (a character from X-MEN) without his claws and an axe murderer without his axe will all be wrong and misleading.
See now the significance of having the right accessories to complement the overall look? There are still more examples to identify to prove that accessorizing is a part-actually a requirement when attending costume parties. It’s like adding more life to a “dead” character or adding more sense of realism to a figure that only exists in fairytale and mythological stories.
Looking for the right accessories might be time consuming as well as tiring. However, this might not be the case because most shops that rents or sells costumes will probably have the accessories as well. So, if you’ve chosen the pirate costume, chances are, your costume is packaged together with the eye patch, pirate hat and even hand hook. If they don’t package it together, they’ll still have it at the store for you to buy or rent separately. Who knows, there might even be a discount.
Below are two of the most popular party themes where accessories are most needed:
ÂHalloween Theme Parties
Holloween is probably the season where everyone is keen to dress up, even if they are not going to a Halloween party. For Halloween costume party one can dress as a witch, ghost, and goblins or even axe murderer. Children too will look cute dressed as ghouls and little vampires. Hats and wigs are certainly high in demand during Halloween. Even simple clothes with the right make-up can be pretty scary.
ÂBeach Theme Parties
For beach themed party, the kind of outfit to have o would be somewhat casual. This is obviously to blend into the kind of atmosphere it portrays. Polo shirts which are ‘flowery’ worn over undershirt would be the most popular type of outfit. A sexier version which consists of the polo shirt only in which the wearer can show more abs or other parts of the body is also accepted. Surfer shorts are also good for this theme. The must haves accessories includes, straw hats or sun visors, anklets or wristbands made of shells, sunglasses, flower garlands for the girls, and Hawaiian leis. Going barefoot is definitely acceptable because of the beach sand.
Costumes and accessories go hand in hand and the absence of one will definitely be made apparent and will lessen the overall impact of your get up.
Raymond Plona
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on 21 Feb 2010 at 8:51 am
PLEASE.HELP.ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
*sorry about the spelling mistakes. I am a fast typer when I’m upset*
so I’m 13. Yes, this is a hard time in adolescent’s lives, I know. Anyway, I have alwasy been the "loser". You see, where I go to school, EVERYONE dresses, acts, looks, talks a certain way. I am totally against the normality at my school. I don’t say "OMG!", I don’t wear fancy designer clothing. In fact I hate the mall. I make my own clothes and accessories. I like them fine. I am confortable in ym own skin.
I made friends with this girl "Katy" a few years ago. She and I clicked immedietly. We had so muhc in common and she was well, more like me than most. Sure, she loved mall,s but also appreciated fine literatuer and books liek me. We would ahve sleepovers and spend ages at each other’s houses.
Along comes "Molly". Molly and Katy wre in some classes last year, and were sort of friends. However, katy complaied of Molly "oh, she’s so girly! I wish she wasn’t!" and so I thought nothign of it.
This year, Molly and Katy are significantly closer. They do EVERYTHIGN together. Katy is changing herself. She ditched me for Molly. We made plans to go to the movies and then have a sleepover. She tells me THAT DAY that Molly invited her over. She’s done that numerous times. When Molly’s around, Katy drops EVERYTHING for her. I was in the locker room. I said "Hey Katy, could you hold my scarf just a sec?" (this scarf was homemeade, mind you. I think it’s awesome.) "Katy lookked at it in disgust, "eww! This is gross!" and made fun of my outfit. She dropeed the scarf when Molly said "Katy! Come here right now!" They make fun of me.
Today was the worst of all. We were in the cafeteria, and They toatally ignore me. Then they start talking about Halloween. "Hey katy, how shoudl we make our costumes?" "yeah, the two little pigs is SUCH a good idea!" I think what teh heck? Katy and I made plans to go trick or treating briefly (free candy!) and watch an Arnold Shwartzenegger marathon and have a sleepover! I say "Oh, you’re going trick of treating with Moly…?" "yes. And?" "oh..it’s just..I thoguht we were doing something." "we were. Not anymore. I’m going to Molly’s house. I am silent. Then Molly says "hey katy, we need a big bad wolf?" "huh" "a big bad wolf, katy." "huh?" "we should have someone dress up as a wolf. a BIG BAD wolf." "oh…" "you know who should?" Katy motions over to me when she THINKS I’m not looking. "bingo." molly mouths. "she’s a big fat wolf". This did it for me. I walked away and sat by myself. They didn’t seem to care. They motioned over for some of Molly’s friends to come over. THEN I totally ignored Katy. After school, she was her normal self andsais, "Jeez, why are YOU so grouchy? I’m goign trick or terateing with Molly, btw. " I go okay. Then she screeches. ‘eewwww! I have MUD on my finger! ewww!" she never cared aboutt his stuff before.
My point is, we were eachother’s ONLY friends because we were both losers. Molly and Katy have nothing in common. I tried talking to Katy last week, but she was all "Oh! I’m SO sorry! I didn’t realize!" guess what? She’s DELIBRATELY doing this!
Please don’t answer "bbecome normal" or crap like that. I WILL NOT change for acceptance. It’s so hard for me to make friends. I can’t believe Katy would do this. Make fun fo me, my clothes…everything. And ditch me multiple times. I know I shouldn’t be needy and hold on if she continues. But how can I at least TRY to resolve this?
on 21 Feb 2010 at 1:53 pm
Honestly I think you sound like an awesome person! Katy will look back on this and see who the true friend was…Deff. dont change…you could try to talk to Katy while shes alone and acting herself, theres a good chance she wont care because she doesnt realize how immature shes acting right now…but I think you’re doing the right thing, don’t let her walk all over you, you deserve better, just try and be as good of a friend as you can and you will be the one she comes to when she needs a true friend. Meanwhile try talking to other people in your classes and being friendly to them.
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on 21 Feb 2010 at 1:55 pm
First of all i wanna say good for you for not changing for any body or anything. But if your friend is treating you like this and she doesn’t care or realize that shes doing that then shes not a true friend.. But if you wanna try and fix this i would pull her to the side during or after school ALONE and tell her how you feel, and what Katy(or molly i couldn’t keep track of who’s the friend) has done to you, tell her that if she doesn’t understand, or just doesn’t care then that you guys are no longer friends because even if you don’t have friends you certainly do not deserve to be treated like that!
Hope i helped!!
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on 21 Feb 2010 at 1:57 pm
To be honest, I don’t believe you have much chance of resolving anything. Katy is essentially… under Molly’s "enchantment" shall we say? and is pretty much an ex-friend at this point. You said you didn’t want to hear become normal and I wouldn’t dream of recommending that — I too was an odd one in school, but I didn’t mind the loneliness… and eventually (maybe around 15 or so) the few and rare friends I made started to "stick" — some changed and we grew apart, but for the most part we understood each other, if you get what I mean. Just be yourself and maintain your standards, and know that more people like the old Katy will come into your life… but some will also leave. That’s just how it goes.
P.S. — YOU (we) ARE NOT A LOSER!
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