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  • What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
  • We were not appalled when Prince Harry went to a fancy dress party as a Nazi (a good place for a Nazi uniform - on a dickhead at a piss-up), and we are not appalled by what he called his pal Ahmed Raza Khan. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Officers said the wanted man appeared to be in fancy dress when he attacked two men and a woman at a pub. The Sun
  • The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights.
  • Eventually they came clumping down the stairs - for their fancy dress they had all dressed up as school girls.
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  • Take part in fancy dress and face painting, have fun on the bouncy castles and enter drawing competitions and quizzes on the day to win prizes. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, hand on heart, even if you are a top dressage rider, can you really justify the fancy dress?
  • On the spur of the moment, they decided to hold a fancy dress party.
  • ‘The emphasis this year will be on fancy dress and having fun as opposed to winning,’ said Tim.
  • Those coming in fancy dress will receive a tasty treat. The Sun
  • Fancy dress shops flog wigs like this for around a tenner. The Sun
  • After watching the end of the parade, and a fancy dress contest we wandered around.
  • Well, sir, the ball is to be like other balls, I believe, only that the guests are to appear in fancy dresses, or in loose gowns called dominoes, and to wear false faces until supper-time, when they unmask and reveal themselves to each other. Cruel As The Grave
  • He has already introduced race nights, fancy dress parties and a pop quiz to the award-winning boozer.
  • Fancy dress store Masquerade collected the customer friendly award, while chocolate maker Thorntons was named Croydon's best food or drink retailer.
  • It wasn't much use - girls were wearing everything from fancy dresses to tracksuits.
  • A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
  • They wear a literal fancy dress that is a historical anachronism, and have not a single clue why they are doing it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Take part in fancy dress and face painting, have fun on the bouncy castles and enter drawing competitions and quizzes on the day to win prizes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many of the marathon runners compete in fancy dress.
  • During the day fancy dress competitions were held, bowling and tennis tournaments and entertainment from several comic bands.
  • But, he sees off the harassment with as much gusto as he dealt with the pestering tabloid journalist in fancy dress. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many were in fancy dress and most of them were swinging rattles and shouting.
  • There were sack races, a tea in the marquee with cakes, buns and sandwiches for 200, and a lad who won the prize for his branch-covered fancy dress of Boots.
  • He turned up at a fancy dress Easter dance in the guise of a white rabbit.
  • Other birds simply shed their fancy dress. Times, Sunday Times
  • It concerns a highly strung, ambitious control freak who throws a Hallowe'en fancy dress party to impress her boss. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wearing of fancy dress costumes and oversized hats inside the ground is prohibited. Times, Sunday Times
  • Others join in the fun in fancy dress, perhaps as a nun or a sumo wrestler. Times, Sunday Times
  • I broach the subject of fancy dress to my proud husband. Times, Sunday Times
  • Serve hot with butter. recipe ends here Fancy Dress Costumes I see these as being in three separate categories.
  • The first, second and third prizewinners in the fancy dress competition will receive a copy of the first four Harry Potter books.
  • A fancy dress parade again preceded the match, and there was a funfair, sideshows and trade stands.
  • Please note it will be not fancy dress as originally stated.
  • A camera whirls around a hedonistic fancy dress party where people snort drugs off heaving bosoms.
  • More than 300 children, aged between four and seven, participated in different items including songs, nursery rhymes, playlets, story telling and fancy dress competition.
  • Participants will contest in light music, elocution, clay modelling, painting, group dance, fancy dress, group song and quiz events of the arts section.
  • Guests were told to come in fancy dress.
  • Crowds of people were already there, all wearing fancy dresses and expensive looking suits.
  • Fancy dress shops flog wigs like this for around a tenner. The Sun
  • Some offer fancy dress pub crawls with outrageous themes. Times, Sunday Times
  • For children aged 5 to 7 there will be a fancy dress competition with ethnic costumes and ‘painting the flag’.
  • Fun-loving landlord and landlady Ricky and Donna Salt donned fancy dress to really help the party go with a swing.
  • Guests were told to come in fancy dress.
  • He also donned a ginger wig for the fancy dress bar crawl. The Sun
  • Sunday will also see the traditional carnival parade - a procession through the town centre including brass, samba and pipe bands, floats, walking groups in fancy dress and carnival queens.
  • Let it slide even if I say that I'm completely certain that the fancy dress ball foreshadowing is all in your head, because RTD would never do something that lame. Donna, Donna, Donna Noble...the noble lady...
  • Members organised a fancy dress Hallowe'en party for children under ten years of age in the community centre.
  • With you pernickety little bastards in your fancy dress, who just judge each other and try to impress.
  • However, hand on heart, even if you are a top dressage rider, can you really justify the fancy dress?
  • Local residents and youngsters are invited to join in, with optional fancy dress.
  • He also donned a ginger wig for the fancy dress bar crawl. The Sun
  • There was also a closet full of fancy dresses made of silk, cotton, lace, satin, velvet, and lots of others!
  • I also asked that since she's a self-confessed "clotheshorse" (its on her website) if the "Firefly" writers might have used that as an inspiration for the "Shindig" episode where Kaylee wears the fancy dress with the hoop skirt. Transcript of Jewel Staite Q&A at Dreamcon
  • I've got a cowboy outfit for the fancy dress party.
  • Anyone going to a fancy dress party or acting or re-enacting is not trying to 'impersonate' in the legal sense that they want you to think that they are members of HMF. Army Rumour Service
  • The parade will feature a samba band, fire-eaters, Gypsy Kate's magic show, and a fancy dress competition for adults and children.
  • He likes death-wish powerboating, ballooning at stratospheric altitudes and showboating for the cameras in fancy dress with scantily-clad hired women.
  • Some of the same Gulf shellfish I had enjoyed in simpler recipes, while surfside at Galveston, here came in fancy dress. Gulf Dining Bounces Back
  • I used to run a bar in East London and made the mistake a couple years ago of awarding the fancy dress prize at a New Year's Eve party to a guy dressed as a suicide bomber.
  • Take part in fancy dress and face painting, have fun on the bouncy castles and enter drawing competitions and quizzes on the day to win prizes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Multiday events in high-glamour locations with supermodels, pop stars, fancy dress and lots of yachts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many of the dancers at the fancy dress ball wore colourful masks.
  • The men would adorn themselves in top hat and tails, while the women MPs would deck themselves in fancy dresses and hats.
  • In their fancy dress, they ordered pizza before going by motorcade to the Tennessee ball.
  • Many of the dancers at the fancy dress ball wore colorful masks.
  • People in western countries sometimes went to the party in fancy dress.
  • He went to a private fancy dress party that was themed and wore something that might be considered by some as bad taste.
  • A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
  • Or fancy dress outfits worn on hen dos. The Sun
  • Mostly they wear sober suits but on special occasions can be seen in fancy dress.
  • False eyelashes used to be strictly for fancy dress. Times, Sunday Times
  • It concerns a highly strung, ambitious woman who throws a Hallowe'en fancy dress party to impress her boss. Times, Sunday Times
  • A host of witches, goblins, ghouls and monsters descended on Carlow town centre last week as the central library held its children's Halloween fancy dress show.
  • The students will also dress in fancy dress as well as dressing up the animals using Christmas decorations such as tinsel and lights.
  • The opening parade got under way with a colourful fancy dress parade with children dressed in all manner of outfits from fairies and spacemen to cartoon characters and spooky classics.
  • A fancy dress event will be held on St. Stephen's Day with people visiting all pubs in the locality in varying stages of dress and undress to help raise funds for North West Hospice.
  • Given the extraordinary queues outside Angels fancy dress store last night, many of you are gearing up for several days of pumpkins, fake blood, unusual outfits and spookery. Londonist
  • I have to say that, as a mother, fancy dress is the bane of my life. This week my daughters require no fewer than four outfits, one each for a school event and two more for a party.
  • It is possible to do ladylike retro chic without looking like you're going to a fancy dress party. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be a dog show at 1pm, bonny baby at 2.30 pm, and fancy dress at 3pm.
  • He turned up at a fancy dress Easter dance in the guise of a white rabbit.
  • Many of the dancers at the fancy dress ball wore colourful masks.
  • A trip to a Leeds theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
  • Fancy dress shops have reported an unusual surge in demand for Elvis costumes this week.
  • Or fancy dress outfits worn on hen dos. The Sun
  • Drop the pomp, take off the fancy dress, become smaller and self-financing. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've got a cowboy outfit for the fancy dress party.
  • Today it is a heritage centre where closet cowboys don fancy dress and fire blanks from six-shooters in the name of tourism and charity.
  • Here he is, dressed up in characteristically flamboyant manner as a Russian general as he helped celebrate artist Sam Taylor-Wood's 40th birthday at a fancy dress party in the East End. Gallery: Let HARRAH
  • Several of the managers donned fancy dress for the office party.
  • The wearing of fancy dress costumes and oversized hats inside the ground is prohibited. Times, Sunday Times
  • He heard a clip-clopping hoise, and then around the corner came an archaic pony-trap, full of young people in what seemed at first sight to be fancy dress: the men in tight black trousers studded at the calf with silver buttons, their white shirts open almost to the waist; the women in wide skirts of frills and layers and bright colours, scarlet, emerald, gold. The Satanic Verses
  • Adults can wear either chef whites, company uniform, fancy dress or sports gear.
  • Historically, I have always baulked at the concept of fancy dress, on the grounds that I have a natural aversion to making myself look ridiculous.
  • I've got to think up something to wear for the fancy dress party.
  • A mini ramp jam with fancy dress and the odd one foot tail grab ollie.
  • Expect a fancy dress competition, choral warm-up and ‘crazy magic moments with the help of your free fun-filled goody bag’.
  • Tired of the usual 'sexy vampire', 'sexy ghost', 'sexy zombie', 'sexy nurse'-type costumes for girls, she suggested a couples fancy dress outfit – the gorier the better (she's a keeper). Best of Chatterbox: Move, Moyles and man nights
  • It conjures up images of upper class society, a world of fancy dress balls and rules for deportment that are anathema to my very soul.
  • Next day, appropriate sermons in the churches, processions in the afternoon, in which wax figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary were carried by men got up in fancy dresses as soldiers and centurions, and so called penitents, walking covered with black shrouds and veils, with small round holes to look through, or in the yellow dress and extinguisher cap, both with flames and devils painted on them. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
  • Entrants wearing fancy dress took to the water in kayaks, dinghies, canoes and other water crafts to raise cash for charity.
  • The carnival committee, however, is urgently appealing for the town to join in and enter floats in the colourful procession or participate as walkers in fancy dress.
  • Cosimo was an able bureaucrat, not a soldier, so the armour is fancy dress, but this image says "invincible Machiavellian prince". Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
  • Some offer fancy dress pub crawls with outrageous themes. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a good laugh seeing other people's costumes but my girlfriend opted to stay in as she's not into fancy dress. The Sun
  • The bank was full of its usual wealthy clientele all of whom were, in large part, wearing fancy dresses or sharp, two-piece business suits.
  • It was a good laugh seeing other people's costumes but my girlfriend opted to stay in as she's not into fancy dress. The Sun
  • Other birds simply shed their fancy dress. Times, Sunday Times
  • The winner of the fancy dress class was Jane Maitland from Drumcliffe with a rescue dog called Patches.
  • Others join in the fun in fancy dress, perhaps as a nun or a sumo wrestler. Times, Sunday Times
  • What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
  • There are film screenings, a fancy dress competition and a Jedi training camp. The Sun
  • Every day the children worry about their Hallowe'en costumes for the school fancy dress parade.
  • He also donned a ginger wig for the fancy dress bar crawl. The Sun
  • He turned up at a fancy dress Easter dance in the guise of a white rabbit.
  • I broach the subject of fancy dress to my proud husband. Times, Sunday Times
  • He also donned a ginger wig for the fancy dress bar crawl. The Sun
  • The stalwart is the latest to be caught up in this book controversies after swimmer Stephanie Rice had been done in byher saucyphotos atafancy dress ball being publicised of her Facebook the other profile Nikki caught in Facebook row
  • The fancy dress theme of the Twelve Days of Christmas produced gold rings, calling birds, French hens, turtle doves, maids-a-milking and ladies dancing among the imaginative costumes.
  • I'm going to the fancy dress party as Snow Queen, who are you going as?
  • We have events for all generations from bonny baby, kids fancy dress, children's tug-o-war to our most appropriately dressed lady and gentleman.
  • Dress at the party was informal, with no neckties or fancy dresses.
  • I broach the subject of fancy dress to my proud husband. Times, Sunday Times
  • Guests were asked to come along in fancy dress or carry an eye mask.
  • Dress at the party was informal, with no neckties or fancy dresses.

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