You can find lots of places to help source your fancy dress costume. These are just a few of the fabulous websites on the internet dedicated to fashion and clothing.
Simplicity is one of the top pattern manufacturers and they have a fabulous choice of fancy dress patterns. They offer patterns for men, ladies, children and pets. They also have a good range of multi size patterns on offer. This is an excellent site for sourcing your fancy dress costume sewing patterns.
Burda fashion has a great section on fancy dress costumes. Their sewing patterns cover history and fantasy, Rock & Pop dance, Carnival, Orient & far west, Animals and clowns. They have good descriptions and images, and a guide for each costume telling you the level of difficulty. There are lots of very easy patterns to choose from and they give recommendations for fabric choice.
Tip – their ‘country of delivery’ box places United Kingdom in between France and Greece (under G for Great Britain).
This is the official site for McCalls, Vogue and Butterick sewing patterns. They have patterns for every costume including shoes, boots and headgear. They have some excellent information including pattern width charts and basic fitting patterns that teach you how to measure yourself correctly so you can adjust all patterns to fit you perfectly.
The habithat website has a great range of patterns for fancy dress costumes and Accessories including Burda and Simplicity. The choice of boys, girls, adults and historical costume patterns is excellent.
The Fashion Museum website has a wealth of information about costumes and fashion throughout the ages. It has information on current collections and details of the clothing. There are even a couple of interactive quizzes and games you can play online. The museum is based in Bath, and details of to find them are on their website.
The Museum of London has a collection of fashion and clothing.
The collection dates from the Tudor period to modern day, and includes over twenty four thousand items of fashion and clothing. It includes clothing from top designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Mary Quant.
And last but not least - our site adshires fancy dress is a great place to find all the latest fancy dress costumes for hire or to buy. There are tips on how to make your own outfit, video clips and some great up to the minute news.
