An International Dress-Up Party
[ 8 February 2007 ]
After my article yesterday about dressing on theme, I’ve been thinking about forming an Army Of Style. Or a Fancy Procession. Or… something. (It needs a good name!)
Basically, my idea is that one day a month, anyone who wanted to be involved would dress in a way which incorporated a previously decided theme. The ultimate aim, other than having fun, would be to take a photo of yourself “on theme” & then I would publish all the pictures I received. Instant internet fame!
We would all talk about prospective themes & then choose the one that appealed most. It would be something weird with a bit of a twist but it would be open enough that it would be easy to interpret & work into your outfit any way you liked. (Say the theme was “your favourite artist” — you could dress to impersonate them or to resemble one of their pieces, or you could wear a button with their face on it, etc.!)
Would anyone be keen to join the ranks? Let me hear your thoughts! I think it would be SO much fun. Like an international dress-up party. A secret society! I love secret societies. I’m so excited!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala 
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i think this is an excellent idea!
I’d totally be up for it.
I would ADORE being a part of this.
yes! yes yes!
dressing up always creates a wonderful glamour bombing. especially on scale!
I am so totally in.
- Dressing like a girl!
- Dressing like a corporate whore (I really like this one!)
- Dressing like your birthday
- Dressing like your favourite character from a book
- Dressing like your favourite character from a children’s book
- Dressing like your favourite serial killer (I remember you having a favourite serial killer section on some very very previous incantation of a website)
- Dressing like a 5 year old
- Dressing like an old lady
- Dressing like you have a completely different job to what you do (this is rather ambiguous) & wearing it to work
- Dressing like a pirate! Yarr!
- Dressing like a madam
- Dressing like a geisha
- Dressing like a schoolgirl/nurse/pick fetish
- FRUiTS!
Ok, that’s quite enough for one go!
p
PS I had problems with formatting my comment – it seems to be a combination of Strictly No HTML Allowed, but also no escaped characters eg <
Are there options for that? I wanted ul and li and br and &heart;
Also, even weirder, < shows up escaped but gets interpreted in the textarea…
Sorry, nerd alert :)
Yay! YAYYYY!
I like dressing as your favourite character… I think maybe my absolute favourite character is Lolita, so hmmm, I’d have to wear dresses & heart-shaped sunglasses & be petulant. But that is pretty much MY LIFE already !
Suggestions I thought of during class….
Favorite crayola crayon color
Crazy Hat Day
Crazy Shoes Day (you always have one pair you never have an occasion to wear very often…)
yes yes YES.
i love whoever suggested the “favourite serial killer” idea. yesss.
xo
Fantastic idea!
me too me too me tooooo! >w
dude, you know I’m in on this.
Count me in _
p.s.
i like the idea of the first assignment being “dress like a valentine.”
i like this idea! it involves lots of hearts & two of my favourite colours!
Mary Bee — Yarrrr! Dress like a valentine! I like that too! Lots of pink, bows & ruffles!
Dressing like a Valentine? ok, so that’s MY LIFE already!
Pink and Red, the most fabulous color-contradiction ever!
something cute please and I’m totally game
totallyyy count me in!
sounds great :) i’d love to.
I love that idea :) in my school here we hold dress up parties too.. most memorable ones were the gangsters themed party and the comic book party :)
oh, and props up on your blog. I’ve been going as Galas or Gala forever (due to an old irc nickname) and I find it awesome that someone in the other side of the world, who never met me, has the same alias ehehe :)
how about decades? You know in the vogue magazines sometimes they have a fashion section where models dress up from each era, going back to the 1900s? I need a good range of wigs though. Since I have a mohawke, unless I go 80s or 90s lol, but I want to be classy for a change!!@#$ lol :P
Only downside is it will probably cost a load, unless there are good second-hand stores around ~ ya never know what you might find!
Galas — It’s not my alias, it’s my actual name! :D Nice to meet you, anyway!
love to! send me the details!
i wanna dress up!
i’m down….way down!!!
my leetle pink camera & i are in, so in.
so very into this mini secret society. should we have a secret code word to acknowledge those we believe are in? example of use: if i waltz by someone dressed as a valentine i salute their effort by saying [insert code word]...
This sounds like so much fun!
:)
I’m up for it!
I’ll do it 4 sure :) xxx
Yay i love it!!! even though I’m months behind every one else!!!! except the geisha… done that before….... white face maeup soooo not attractive!!! i love the dress for ur favourite era idea though!!!