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Well, Halloween is nearly here, my favourite totally pointless, no obligations or present buying holiday dedicated totally to being very silly and dressing up! Halloween parties, of course, are very rarely on the day itself when you’re a grown up, as everyone is at work, so this Saturday just gone was my excuse to dress up in a Halloween costume and drink more vodka than is strictly recommended.
A few weeks ago Plunkett & Macleane
I had very little money, so while I was lusting over fabulous steam punk leather corsets on Corsets UK, who have a cracking sale on, in the end I had to put together an outfit from things I had in my wardrobe. All I actually bought was the hat and pistol for under £10 on eBay. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you got a sneak peek at part of the final outfit, but here are the full snaps we took before going out!
♠ White Top- eBay about 10 years ago ♠ Corset – Vollers ♠ Skirt – ASOS ♠
♠ Tights – Tights Please* ♠ Boots – Everything5Pounds.com ♠
♠ Brooch on skirt – Vintage ♠ Hat & Pistol – eBay ♠
The white top has been in my wardrobe for about 10 years, the corset is the top half of my wedding dress, the skirt is the one from this post, and the boots came from a rather wonderful website I have fallen in love with called Everything 5 Pounds. They’re still available as well, priced at, well, £5.
The corset is still done up loosely in these pictures. Corset tip for you all, wear it for a bit, then tighten it more, then wear it a bit more, and tighten it more. If you try and tighten it right up first off you may well panic and think you can’t breath. At least I do!
I did not take any photos myself at the party, as I was rather devoted to drinking far too much vodka, which is a task that consumed much of my attention, until I walked home bare foot (4″ platform boots not that comfy to wear all evening, who knew?) and fell asleep on the sofa before being dragged off to bed by Mr Chick.
I can tell you the evening involved dancing, fireworks and some rather cracking decorating efforts from our lovely host.
I also spent much of the evening attempting to separate people from their valuables like this. Which mysteriously failed, possibly due to the rather obvious plastic nature of my pistol. Ho hum.
So, did you go to any Halloween parties? Do you have any coming up next weekend?
17 Comments
What a fun outfit for Hallowe’en 🙂
I’m interested in that everything5pounds website but I’d be interested to know what the quality of the items is like with them being so cheap. Perhaps you could let us know if they fall to bits etc. I kind of tend to think they can’t possibly be up to much due to the low price but they have a lot of things that I like!
Apparently they are selling off end of lines, and stock from shops that have gone bust. The boots are reasonable enough High Street quality. Haven’t bought anything else from there, but I think it largely looks like low end High Street stuff!
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What a great outfit!
@Retrochick_uk love it!
Such a cool outfit!
BRILLIANT!!!! i LOVE this!!!
Best pirate costume I’ve ever seen! I don’t think I’m doing Halloween this year but it’s great to see what everyone else wore <3
So when do we get to see what your wedding dress looked like? Because I’ve got to tell you, I’m seriously intrigued now!
It’s only a teeny tiny picture, but here! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4HiEp_z7lbI/SCv8E3-5jYI/AAAAAAAAAEc/KfGQ2VVHynk/s320/me.jpg
Oh my gosh, so fabulous! I bloody love a thrifty Halloween costume. Your hair is perfection. Oh okay, this everything £5 website is addictive.
@Retrochick_uk That’s brilliant. I love Plunkett & Macleane
RT @Retrochick_uk: This years Halloween costume is half Plunkett & Macleane inspired and half Adam Ant.: http://t.co/bmeLTrnL48
Amazing! Love that you’ve done something a bit different from the usual. WE have a party this weekend and I have caved, so going as little red riding hood and mr is going as the wolf! Lots of fun 🙂
Oh what a cool idea! Have fun!
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