This short tale is brought to you as part of ‘Storytelling Sunday’ hosted by Sian at ‘From High In The Sky’.
I have loved Fancy Dress since I was very small & over the years I’ve worn costumes ranging from sublime to ridiculous! I have been a vampire, Cleopatra, a tampon (embarrassingly explained away as a snowman to my best friends Mum!!), the back end of a cow, a St Trinians schoolgirl to name a few & have joined in with gusto at numerous Toga, Come-as-you-are & Pyjama parties!
But they all have one thing in common…the costumes were all home made! I will admit to having shop bought a couple of hats…but generally I consider putting a costume together as big a part of the fun as enjoying the event it’s worn for! Sadly, very few
It’s December 2001 & Nathan’s playgroup are holding a fancy dress Christmas party. Nathan is two & this will be his first time in costume (I was never one for novelty Christmas baby-grows!!) So what did he want to be? Why, a pirate of course!
We pulled together a stripy shirt, worn with blue jeans & red wellies. Tied a red chiffon scarf around his waist to hold his scabbard & sword, Added Dads red spotty neckerchief & a couple of my pearl ropes & chains. He even allowed a clip on gold hoop earring & a drawn on moustache! I pinned a small blue felt parrot to his shoulder, placed an elasticated felt eye patch over one eye & topped him off with a pirates tri-corn hat!Amazingly enough, everything but the scabbard & the eye patch stayed in place until the party was over! They seriously impinged on the taking part in tricycle racing around the hall, so that was OK!!
In this photo Nathan is clutching an envelope, which contained his prize for winning the Fancy Dress First Prize….but he carried it around with him unopened, until we got home, happy just to have his 15mins (or so) of fame!!
Thanks Sian for this opportunity to relive a very happy memory, which actually seems like just yesterday, in spite of Nathan now being a teenager!!
Thanks for stopping by…I’m off to check out some other Storytelling Sunday tales over at ‘From High In The Sky’…why don’t you follow along!
11 comments:
That's such a lovely tale, Sandi :) Have you scrapped it yet? And what a shame we don't get to see you all dressed up....
A lovely story,Sandi....what is it about pirates.....I hate dressing up....but even I was happy to be a pirate for our town's Pirate Day in the summer.
I just found you again, have joined Storytelling Sunday (and most other days of the week to be fair!).. dying to hear about the DC concert.. what a hero xx
He's just gorgeous! I'm so glad that you made it with this story and pic - I think we think along very similar lines when it comes to fancy Dress, wouldn't it be fun to put together some costumes together? Mind you, I've never been a ta-snowman haha. Great stuff!
What a wonderful story! I literally laughed out loud at the image of the tampon/snowman costume! The image of your little pirate is too adorable for words!!! Hope you have a wonderful week, dear friend!
Am I the only one wondering where the heck you were going in a tampon costume.
You must have been a student, that's the only time I can see that costume being even thought about.
What great memories and what a cute pirate.
The list of costumes made me laugh. What a cute little pirate and lovely story. Isn't it fun when they are happy with the envelope? :)
I thought I'd heard of it all, but a tampon costume is definitely a new one on me! Your little pirate is adorable clutching his prize.
what a cutey! great pirate costume but I am also disappointed there are no photos of you in fancy dress!!
aye, a most wonderful choice and the lad makes a fine pirate argh
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