Unusual Party Themes

[Chinchilla]

Dear All,

I was sending a message to Natty Dread, who adopted me on the forums, to tell him about my coming weekend. I`ve been invited to a friend's Birthday party and, as she is German, she has themed it as a "Sausage-Fest".

We will take up knives and forks, to do battle with tasty pork, in all its succulent guises. It's the meat of Kings, after all.

This got me thinking, has anyone else on the forum ever had a themed or unusual party? If so, how did it go and do you have a story to share?

PS I shall give a full battle report of how many sausages i defeat on Sunday.

[CMG-UTOPIA]

My sister had a "70's Disco" theme once on her 18th b-day... that was about it.

[captain canuck]

I would like a "come as your favourite weebls-stuff character" shindig.

I suspect most of my guests would show up as Magical Trevor, though.

[BlueIncaPilot]

I know my friend went to a medieval theme party you know with long lacy dresses and corsets etc. I can't say I have ever been to one.

[GorillaBearBear]

Dear All,

I was sending a message to Natty Dread, who adopted me on the forums, to tell him about my coming weekend. I`ve been invited to a friend's Birthday party and, as she is German, she has themed it as a "Sausage-Fest".


this is seriously going to be the worst party.

[Dr Phil]

Tomorow I am going to a D-Day party WWII dress will be ace.

[Scott Star]

I've had toga parties, super hero parties but nothing to unusual.

[Glitch]

t-parties, where you come as something starting with the letter t. trollied, tanked and tipsy are acceptable guises. you can do it for any letter of the alphabet really but t-party has a nice ring to it.

i also went to one in february where the theme was pirates, geeks and hotdogs. no-one came as a hotdog.

[Smartie]

My 29th was a pirate party, what with me being a pirate and all.
Went pretty well, and everyone wore the hats and eye patches as instructed.

[Midget]

some bitch i know had a party where all the guests had to wear black and white so that she could wear the brightest, most colourful dress possible and be the centre of attention

i was tempted to go in a hot pink shirt but i just didnt go instead

[Dr_nwa]

We had a dog the bounty hunter party at my flat
I was Young Blood
We left a "friend" of ours handcuffed to a radiator in my flatmate's room for the entire night.

[gembird]

At uni last year we had a party for the 40th anniversary of our halls. It was formal or 60s dress, and everyone turned up in mod suits for the best of both worlds. 60s is much more fun if you get people turning up as hippies and the Rolling Stones as well though.

[Luna_1985]

I once heard of a "T- Party" where you arrive dressed as something or wear something starting with the letter T, like a toga, t-rex, tramp, time, tailor...you get the idea.

[KARMAWHORE]

Ive been to a childrens tv character fancy dress party.. i went as bill, and my friend went as ben, with flower pots on our heads. Sad but true.

[Snoon]

my sister wants a mighty boosh themed party for her next birthday. bit of a cop out really since she already dresses like old gregg most of the time.

[Lewiji]

Ive been to a childrens tv character fancy dress party.. i went as bill, and my friend went as ben, with flower pots on our heads. Sad but true.
Going to one of these in a few weeks, my mate's girlfriend's.

It's made more awesome by the fact she's setting up loads of gameboys with pokemon etc and ps1's with spyro and the like. Nostalgia for the win.

Me and a group of mates are going as various characters from Where's Wally (shh, there was a brief tv series) and the object will be to disperse and see who can find the real wally in the crowd.

[tom93]

some bitch i know had a party where all the guests had to wear black and white so that she could wear the brightest, most colourful dress possible and be the centre of attention

i was tempted to go in a hot pink shirt but i just didnt go instead

one of my friends had a "red and black" themed party so that she could wear a gold dress.

in other news, i think theme parties suck. they kinda force a vibe onto the party, which often doesn't fit. i never know how much to dress up until i'm there, and i inevitably stand out, one way or another. people often choose stupid themes which mean that everyone has to spend money on costumes, and then i have less money to get drunk.

there are other reasons too, but i'm far too enraged to list them

[nowhereman]

I've been to some pretty strange parties. My friend once had a pink party where everything was pink - food, drink (including dyed water), decorations etc. She actually refused entry to people who weren't wearing pink. It's weird how much the colour of things affects the way they taste - try eating pink cake and persuading yourself it's not strawberry flavour!

Other bizarre parties I've been to have been themed robots, Scotland and 'under the sea'. A tree party was called off at the last minute because the guy hosting it could not persuade enough people to dress up as trees.

Yeah, I have some crazy friends :D

[Felix Barry]

I once went to a party where there was a series throughout the year. It was called

ALPHABET-FEST!

Not the greatest name. But the idea was genius.

26 letters, 26 parties. Each party was themed around that letter.

The most original costume I saw was at the H party when someone went as a hydrogen atom. I thought it was genius!

[matt bird]

kill and fuck party

[mittens]

went to a forties-themed movie night last summer that was pretty rad.

in a week or two am attending a "circle day" picnic; biking, pie, hula-hoops and whatnot.

[Paradigm^]

kill and fuck partyIn that order?

[matt bird]

yeah man if you want i don't really mind it's a liberal party

[happy-go-lucky]

My birthday party this year has the theme "drag and dinosaurs"
One of my (male) friends asked for the drag part because he wanted to come in a dress. My friends and I are trying to persuade him to come to out school prom in a dress to see how many people we can convince he is a girl.

[captain canuck]

I know my friend went to a medieval theme party you know with long lacy dresses and corsets etc. I can't say I have ever been to one.
The Society for Creative Anachronism essentially has those on a daily basis ^_^

[Spacemonkey]

I hate fancy dress parties where any theme is taken by the majority of the girls there to just dress as whores but in a way vaguely related to that theme. (back to school is usually the worst offender for this)

To solve this, when it was my hall mate's 21st, as he was the oldest one of us, we had an 'old people' theme. Not only was this really easy to get costumes for as you could just pop to a charity shop and get the whole shebang for under £5, it turned out to be really fun, and quite a sight to see about 30 students dressed as old people walking down the hill. Plus it's pretty much impossible to dress as a slutty old person.

This is all of us:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8804/n3096015873451204366tx4.jpg

Quality night :D

[Charming]

she has themed it as a "Sausage-Fest".

[insert penis joke]

The old people theme sounds awesome, I might try that.

[Dr_nwa]

less party more bar crawl
Everyone has a tenner
Everyone has 1 hour to go to as many charity shops in your town as possible and buy a full outfit.
dress up and then go on a bar crawl

[Chinchilla]

Thankyou all for your reponses to the thread. Seems that there have been a lot of themed parties going on.

Based on the responses, i made a sort of "top three" of the ideas that I liked, based on the replies you all gave.

1. Drag and Dinosaurs - posted by Happy-go-lucky.

This one is original and quite a challenge. Dinosaur costume or theme is very hard to do and the other option, being in drag, is good for a laugh. Would be very good fun for all involved, i feel.

2. World War 2 party - posted by Dr Phil.

Uniforms are a lot of fun and everyone can do bad British or American accents. Or German accents if you are that way inclined. Great excuse to raid a costume shop or to get photographed doing silly things.

3. Undersea Party - Posted by Nowhereman.

I`m a big fan of Bioshock, the computer game, so anything undersea that lets me dress in a diving suit cant be bad. You could even go in a normal suit, as Andrew Ryan, maker of Rapture city...or Sander Cohen, or that mad doctor, much potential if you go with friends. Fish and whale costumes too, or giant crabs which are my starsign, so many positives here.

Additionally, many thanks to SpaceMonkey, for posting the party picture. It's nice to see what it all looks like when people make good efforts to dress up.

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The party i`m going to on sunday is perhaps more focused than themed. After all, the aim is to appreciate sausages and certain foods, rather than to dress up. It's more a celebration of a thing than an enforced theme via costume etc. Still, parties that require a little more thought than simply turning up with bad wine tucked under one arm are welcome.

[GorillaBearBear]

My birthday party this year has the theme "drag and dinosaurs"
One of my (male) friends asked for the drag part because he wanted to come in a dress. My friends and I are trying to persuade him to come to out school prom in a dress to see how many people we can convince he is a girl.

At our sixth form leaving do my mate and her boyfriend swapped clothes halfway through in the toilets, which was pretty funny.

[Troll]

One of my (male) friends asked for the drag part because he wanted to come in a dress. My friends and I are trying to persuade him to come to out school prom in a dress to see how many people we can convince he is a girl.

ha-ha, that's brilliant, i have to try that sometime

[tom93]

yeah man if you want i don't really mind it's a liberal party

nobody wants to look like a prude at the kill and fuck party

[Glitch]

a very silly party (http://www.omrlp.com/)

[Snoon]

At our sixth form leaving do my mate and her boyfriend swapped clothes halfway through in the toilets, which was pretty funny.

when the boredom got too much in our common room in 6th year one of my friends would find some big sheets of paper and fashion himself dresses and skirts and prance round on the tables. it was a frighteningly regular occurrence. and at parties another two of my friends (one girl, one boy) always seem to make a point of swapping clothes. i could post pictures but that'd just be mean.

[GorillaBearBear]

It's cruel though because the girl comes out of a cross-gender clothes swap much better than the guy. With my friends she looked like a business woman suffering from a bad case of sexy disease, but he looked like a dude in a dress which is kind of weird.

feminism strikes again

[Snoon]

in scotland it's all good

[Roxsie]

my 18th was a 60's happening.

Fancy dress, 60's music, films projected on the ceiling (big hit even though was soundless) 60's decorations including an original carnaby street sign from I was Lord Kitcheners Valet.

My 19th was moulin rouge style mainly so i could get mens to dress as 18th century gents which they were nice enough to do

My 20th was different decades apart from today, so i had a 70's skinhead, 20's toff, 70's glam rocker, 80's goth, 50's glamour puss etc etc. Almost everyone managed to come up with summit and no-one looked slutty.

That reminds me need to start thinking of ideas for my 21st and cajoling people to come to Aber ;)