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Dream Theme

My friend Soph (also a committed Laundry user, he he) is having a Murder Mystery Party for her birthday this year. Being a huge fan of Cluedo myself (used to try and play it on me own- which you can’t, don’t try it- you’ll find it most unfulfilling), I am really excited about the whole thing. We get to dress up all olde worldy, and you know gather clues in the fashion of makeshift inspectors and talk posh with names like Lord Blenkinsop and Lady Masheter!

Only problem is my birthday is dead on a month after Sophie’s and now I have this great birthday party act to follow. I’m in a right blether- what sort of party trumps a murder mystery?!!

Help is needed from you creative thinking Launderers out there.

Types of party we have come up with so far:
-Bad taste- could be good as no need to worry about looking cool, but then you know everyone always tries to look good whatever when it comes to fancy dress (Rach’s friend went as Jimmy Saville and her as a used female sanitary item- blrrgh, well maybe not everyone tries to look good…!)
-Treasure hunt- I am seriously considering this because it’s such blooming nice weather today, but have memories of this going a bit wrong when I was a kid and not being able to find a clue and traipsing for ages in the sun without even a glimmer of a prize- maybe be tricky to motivate the masses around our local park, plus you’ve got to come up with the clues- hmpf
- Superheroes- hold up! Maybe this has been done before- I remember someone coming as the incredible hulk and painting his whole body green, he looked like a sea sick landlubber for at least a couple of weeks afterwards, hmm too much lycra action for June.

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7 Comments to “Dream Theme”

  1. Rachel from the Laundry
    Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am
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    Ok, so I may not have looked pretty, but it definately was bad taste. Jess (ex-Laundrette) has a problem with people that use fancy dress as an excuse to look good. People who come to Hallowe’en parties as “sexy cats” grr - I say be as silly as poss. I got really annoyed with my friend who came to a bad taste party as Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, until I saw a great big syringe sticking out of her chest, brilliant.
  2. Damian
    Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 10:33 am
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    If the weather is still like this have a shorts, t shirts and sandals party. (sort of beach party but no beach…) Award a prize for who has the funkiest/brightest/most hideous ensemble. Its really easy, everyone can do it (boys and girls) and its funny.

    Many Happy Returns for the day
  3. Mark
    Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
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    Tube stations is a good one, although you need to be quite imaginative for some of them (there’s a surprising number of easy ones though!) Tube stations should stop all those trying too hard to look sexy people in their tracks too.

    My favourite dressing up party was simply titled ‘France’. It made for an interesting array of onion wearers, burlesque girls, French terrorists, red windmills and a male Amelie Mauresmo.
  4. philippa
    Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
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    my friend wants to get married and have a woodland creatures theme. she said i could come dressed as a squirrel about which i was very happy. my boyfriend decided he’d like to go as a fox and claimed this involved no dressing up whatsoever!!!
  5. Steph
    Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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    I had an ‘underground’ theme for my birthday party last year and some folk came as tube stations, (my sister and her fella as Knightsbridge in full knight attire connected by a lolly-stick bridge in which they navigated via public transport from Clapham to Hackney), one lass as a member of the French Resistance and my fave - an all-red-and-foil ensemble for magma!

    What about having a letter party? Like a ‘p’ party. Pond, pirate, paparazzi, pilgrim?
  6. Mark
    Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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    If you do letters you can be self-indulgent and use your initials, so for Joe Bloggs:

    J = James Bond, junkie, jelly.
    B = Barbie, brain surgeon, badger.

    Steph, I take my hat off to anyone who can manage to dress up as a pond! :-)

  7. Steph
    Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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    Well, I feel flattered as I was the pond that time! I think without the duck tea cozy on my head I would have passed for simply ’strange green person covered in small plastic frogs and an odd collection of leaves.’

    whoop whoop!
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