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Fancy dress parties have been celebrated within the United Kingdom for many years Wholesale Jerseys , and have progressed from the average Halloween style costume parties in October, dressing up as witches and vampires, skeletons and other fiendish characters, to parties now themed around national days (such as St Patricks Day), Christmas parties, themed birthday parties (popular birthday party themes being pimps and hoes, gangsters & flappers) and hen stag evenings.


Even though fancy dress is more generally referenced right back to the 15th Century in Italy Cheap College Jerseys , where outstanding masquerade balls were held, the origins of fancy dress in the UK is commonly traced back to the 18th Century period, but our modern day themes were popularized by both the Victorians and the Edwardians who loved to celebrate in a range of fancy dress costumes and accessories. Most events were very elaborate affairs on a very magnificent scale, with only those invited of a high social standing during these periods.


Since then, fancy dress costume parties have been on the increase really since the 1940’s in the UK, in a simpler form compared to today, until the 1970’s. This could be coupled to the increase of filmtelevision programmes being aired throughout the country Cheap NCAA Jerseys , resulting in improved imagination and better manufacturing processes opening a new era in the costume industry.


It wasn’t until the 1990’s that the purchasing of costumes in the UK became commonplace. Before to this, fancy dress costumes were generally hired for a social or recreational event, and given back to the shop once worn. It’s now hard to find many retail fancy dress shops in local towns, or ones that offer a full range you would expect from a fancy dress retailer, especially since the internet provided home shopping access, no matter where you lived. This meant that fancy dress shops could operate online, have contact to a much wider audience and also be able to offer a fuller range of costumes and accessories without having to worry about costly retail premises or shop fronts. There are still some companies who allow mail hire costume ordering Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping , but purchasing of costumes has now become the standard.


After the late 90’s, retro fashion styles became very trendy, with the introduction of 60s, 70s and 80s fancy dress costumes, which clearly mirror our fashion sense from these era’s.


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The busiest and most celebrated fancy dress parties all take place around Halloween and are celebrated on or just before the 31st October. The name Halloween is derived from the feast of All Hallows which is celebrated on the 1st November to honour the saints, and the end of the harvest in Gaelic culture.


Halloween has many traditions, which range from trick or treating, the production of bonfires, scaring people, carving jack-o-lanterns, apple bobbing Wholesale NCAA College Jerseys , watching scary films, visiting haunted attractions, pranks and general ghoulish behaviour. Of course, many people now celebrate by having parties welcoming every one to be dressed in Halloween costumes.


Halloween is also known as Samhain, which in other traditions marks the end of the third and final harvest, and is a day to commune with and remember the dead, and is a celebration of the eternal cycle of reincarnation. Samhain is mostly followed by the Wiccan and many Pagan religions.


In European traditions Wholesale College Jerseys Cheap , Halloween is the night when the old god dies, and the crone goddess mourns him deeply for the next six weeks. The standard concept of her as the old Halloween hag stirring her cauldron comes from the Celtic belief that all dead souls come back to her cauldron of life, and are reborn.


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