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New Year and another new Feature for Fancy dress.com

Happy New Year to all our customers, we wish you a healthy, happy 2009 and hope that lots of the year will fancy dressed!

COSTUME REVIEWS
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new feature on facydress.com, Customer Costume Reviews. The review section can be found under the costume image on the main product page (just below ‘Customers who bought this item also bought…’).

You can now rate and review items, helping other customers choose the perfect fancy dress outfit and also letting us know what you think of the costumes.

So head over to the site and rate your most recent purchase.

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Trashy Costume News

Angels are proud to present the exclusive Trashy Costume range available to buy only from our London store

Click here or on the images to see more

Trashy is a Hollywood based company originally making lingerie, opened 25 years ago with only one store located on La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles. Trashy Lingerie has worldwide name recognition for providing their rich and famous clientele with only the highest quality of lingerie and clothing. "Our Fantasy is Fulfilling Yours" is their slogan, and let us assure you that is exactly what they do.

Many of Hollywood's stars have come to learn that the "Sky's the Limit", when it comes to Trashy! Many a celebrity have been spotted wearing Trashy including Madonna and Pamela Anderson. Trashy is not open to the public. It's a private, members-only store, but thanks to Angels Fancy Dress you can now be one of the select few to own one of these exclusive costumes.

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The Angels Big Vintage Fashion Sale

The colossal Angels warehouse in Hendon, North London holds an extensive costume collection hanging on 8 miles-worth of hanging rails. They have examples of every conceivable type of costume, ready for use by film and TV Costume Designers or to be made available for hire from the Angels Fancy Dress shop on Shaftesbury Avenue.

Emma Michelle explains, “Although we have such a huge storage area we felt that we were running out of space, so we selected around 30,000 items of clothing, uniform, and jewellery that were duplicated in other stock and decided to hold a ‘people’s sale’ of these costumes – the first time in the 160 year history of Angels that such an event had been planned.”

Rumours of the sale spread like wildfire and the blogging community embraced the idea and a Facebook group was quickly formed. Emma and her team made videos to explain how the sale would work, and how customers could pay for one of three differently-sized bags upon entry and then be allowed to fill them to capacity. Only books, jewellery, and bulky items were to be priced separately.

Emma continues, “We have never organized an event like this so were a little nervous when thousands of Facebook people said they would be attending!” Consequently, preparation went into overdrive and security was hired, barriers erected, and signs posted to direct punters from the tube to the salerooms.

On the day before the sale, a milliner from Hungerford and 2 friends became the first in the queue at 3:00pm, braving the sub-zero temperatures of a Wembley night! Other members of the queue traveled from the USA, France and Sweden.

When the doors finally opened the queue had swollen to such an extent that it extended all the way around the industrial estate, with over 3,000 bargain hunters jostling for a space.

It had been anticipated that a buying frenzy would last for the first couple of hours, but thanks to the breadth of the stock available there was still plenty to pick through right up until the 5pm closing time. Some visitors regretted their having come later in the day, citing the fact that most of the good items had gone, but the majority were delighted with what they were finding. A large percentage of the buyers proved to be fashion students. Other attendees included re-enactment fans, costume makers and collectors, and even celebrities including Peaches Geldof and Jade Jagger could be spotted amongst the diverse crowd seeking out an Angels bargain.

At the end of a very busy day an exhausted Emma Michelle was delighted with the run-away success of the day and informed me that the bloggers had already started passing comments on the sale. One girl had offered photos of her purchases, another emailed to say that she was half-way through editing her video report.

“Hundreds of customers left email addresses at security asking to be kept informed of any other sales. We need to let the dust settle before we commit to another one, and work out what worked best about this sale, but hopefully there will be something to announce in the next few months,” comments Emma.

If you would like to be added to the Angels Sale mailing list to be kept informed of future plans and developments or just want to send us pictures of your purchases, send an email to sale@angels.uk.com

If you would like to see further sale images and videos please click here.

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Angels The Costumiers Big Vintage Sale

On 6th December, 2008, Angels the Costumiers, our parent company and the largest costumiers in the Entertainment industry, are offering the public a unique opportunity to buy genuine retro clothing and accessories from the 1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 80's and 1990's contemporary clothing and period military uniforms.

Click here to learn more

Click here to see the YouTube sale video

Click here to see the YouTube fashion video

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Pardon The Witches

On 28th of August 2008, the Swiss Parliament granted an official pardon to Anna Goeldi who in 1782 was the last person to be executed as a witch in Western Europe. It is time the British government followed this example and this Halloween offered a symbolic pardon to those people who were punished for witchcraft in Britain between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Century.

Angels, has consulted with historian and witchcraft expert John Callow to prepare eight historical test cases that aim to remove the suspicion and fear that continues to surround these innocent women (and one man). Please fill in the petition here to see your name added to the list that will be presented to Justice Minister Jack Straw MP on Halloween 2008 asking him to recommend the Queen issues a posthumous pardon.

For More Information click here

What the Experts Say

Test Cases

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Sweets

If you turn up empty-handed to a Halloween Party someone may cut it off! So rather than a bottle of wine why not take a pack of our famous trick-or treat sweets? Last year these were such a success that the more gory ones sold out faster than a bat out of a belfry! We have kept the most popular flavors from last year and added some new ones, watch out for the Vicious Vipers, they bite back!

Take your pick from Jelly Bone Sweets, Jelly Bug Sweets, Jelly Filled Brain Sweets, Pumpkin Skull Chocolates, Strawberry and Cream Chocolate Skulls, Dracula Fang Sweets, Vicious Viper Sweets and the Classic Vampire Teeth Sweets. These sweets may contain traces of nuts.

All are available in 250g bags or, for a limited time only, in a 4-bag bonus-pack with a 10% saving! Click Here for Sweet Section

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The Redesign Explained

Why did you change the Site?

We originally launched the site back in 2003 and our stock has grown and changed so much and the way our customers shop has changed we thought it was about time we changed too!

What's New?

We have concentrated on the visual, after all you are buying something you are going to wear you want to know what it looks like, we have also made our site far more interactive.

Images: We have made all our images larger and clearer, therefore you are able to see the product in far more detail.

Blog: We are always being asked to peek behind the scenes at the world's largest costumiers, who is dropping-in to dress up at our Shaftesbury Avenue shop? Well our Fancy Dress Fairy is snooping around everywhere and letting you know.

Sections: To make it easier for you to navigate the website we have decided to separate all the different departments, Adult Costumes, Kids Costumes, Accessories, Wigs and Masks and Make Up.

Themes: Themes are becoming more and more popular ways of finding things so we have created a section just for themes, just as another helping hand to help people decide what to wear to a party.

Is that all?

We have also changed the colour of the site, not too drastically but it is different from our last site.

Do you want my opinion?

Yes please, we have asked a lot of people for help along the way of this redesign but we appreciate any feedback or suggestions that you can give us will help us with the ongoing changes to the websites, please email us at info@fancydress.com.

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New Website Launches

THE NEW HOME PAGE

BUY ONLINE PAGE

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