Make your St Patrick's Day Awesome With These Fancy Dress Costume Ideas

Irish people love to dress up that’s for sure! There are huge fancy dress parades in every town in Ireland on St Patrick’s Day, local mummers and wren boys dress and perform after Christmas and during All Hallows. There are numerous parties and events leading up to and during Halloween where they dress as witches, ghouls, ghosts, and creatures of the ‘other world. 

Seasonal Fancy Dress

In the weeks leading to Christmas there are many glamorous affairs where guests dress in long slinky gowns with lots of sparkle and bling. There are lots of masked balls etc. on New Year’s Eve as the country bids goodbye to the past year and welcomes the new. People love to dress with a theme at this time, many choosing flapper dresses, long cigarette holders and headbands with feathers. 

All through the year there are themed parties – indoors during the winter months where guests often dress as characters from history or fiction. Many loves to dress in St Patrick's Day costumes such as soldiers, sailors, pilots, chefs and nurses.

Dressing up as a Super Hero or an Historical Figure

Others want to masquerade as their dashing superheroes from science fiction such as Star Wars, or historical fictional characters like Harry Potter. 

The newest craze is ‘Lip-synch’ where performers go on stage and silently lip-synch the words of songs and performances by famous artists such as Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Abba, etc.  People love to dress up as these artists and let it rip on stage.

The list is endless and any decent costume shop must carry a reasonable stock of fancy dress outfits to meet the needs of these customers.  

During the summer time people like to dress up in regional fancy dress such as Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts. Many like to dress in the national costumes during international sporting events, wearing wig in the colour of the Irish flag.