English Fancy Dress

[HeyWayne]

Wear a black polo neck, or ill-fitting t-shirt, hoik your trousers up too high and have a non-descript hair cut. Go as Simon Cowel - a cultural icon. Walk round all day with your tongue pressed against your cheek.

[northepaul]

You put them on over your normal clothes innit

My PJs arent that big!!

The idea is to come to school in PJs and you pay £1 penalty to do it....so I not long dont have to look a complete t*t, but I save a quid too...mean arent I?

[Piggle]

Enforced cheerfulness: that's exactly why I hate Christmas, but I get called all kinds of names for that :rolls eyes:

Great minds think alike ... I don't adhere to any official celebration , valentines, new year, christmas etc.

[bearded bloke]

A few pints of Brains and anything sounds good

cannibalism

[veggiechicken]

Must be a Royal brain - with blue blood. Yukky!!!!

[Piggle]

I got horribly drunk on brains beer the one and only time I went to Cardiff ..... " pint of brains barman" makes me chuckle everytime I think about it.

[mothhawk]

Ok, So my wife's place of work has told her that she HAS to wear fancy dress for "children in need" or she will get sent home.

they have said you can wear cultural dress from your country.

She is from England, so she said she would come in her own clothes then.
And basically they said no, she is not allowed. Darren

Is it not very insulting to people of other nationalities to imply that English cultural dress is "normal", and every other country's cultural dress is "fancy dress" (and by implication, to be laughed at)?

[baldrick]

I love a laugh me but I absolutely hate children in need, comic relief etc etc. Happy to donate to charity but prefer that its not compulsory. We always have "dress down" days at work that we have to pay for whatever we may have already donated, and TBH my big boss is a right miserable ar*e over all sorts of trivial stuff so when he insists I break all the poxy rules (that suddenly dont matter!) and be jolly to make him look good I end up doing a nice line in passive resistance.....But then Im an awkward cow...............

[WendyC]

Every year when dressing up days come round I'm so glad I don't work Fridays and have a good excuse not to dress up. Do have to don the chiton for the annual Greek day though!

[Two_Sheds]

Is it not very insulting to people of other nationalities to imply that English cultural dress is "normal", and every other country's cultural dress is "fancy dress" (and by implication, to be laughed at)?

I don't think that's been implied anywhere ...? I think the "laugh", if there is one to be squeezed out of this, is that England even has a cultural dress

[snohare]

I think the "laugh", if there is one to be squeezed out of this, is that England even has a cultural dress

Yes, the Morris dancing thing is based on martial arts displays done by Dervish prisoners captured by the Crusaders, isn't it ?

T shirts are American...I don't know where bowler hats come from, but other than a pin stripe suit, the only truly "English/British" dress I can think of is a Chav(ess) in a white shell suit and bling...or maybe these days, riot(ing) gear ?

Sadly I missed the fancy dress day at work when everyone dressed up in something Halloweenish. But there it was all purely voluntary - we're almost all volunteers - nobody would say boo to a goose if you came in wearing streetwear.

[Nicos]

And so DG- what has she finally decided to wear?..is she going with her original plan??

Whatever she wears- I hope the day goes well

[DGoulston]

And so DG- what has she finally decided to wear?..is she going with her original plan??

Whatever she wears- I hope the day goes well

Yes she is going as a football player, so she is quite happy! thanks all the the suggestions. If it was me I would have gone for the most crazy outfit I could think of! lol
Darren

[Two_Sheds]

We've been asked to wear something spotty tomorrow: last year I painted black spots on my eyelids and kept freaking the kids out by winking at them

[Hilary B]

I think I would have worn my dog-walking outfit, complete with muddy wellies. It's as 'English Cultural' as anything else.
wrt to the question of 'any other' national dress being 'not normal', yes, but OUR 'national dress' (if we had one) would be 'not normal' in their country!
Reminds me of my daughter's teacher who demanded that the class write something 'in dialect'. Not easy for someone whose parents and early life are firmly 'home counties', but her best friend was from Yorkshire....
The teacher had in mind a Scottish/local 'dialect', being an SNP enthusiast (this was when we lived in Orkney, about a third of the class were English, a third local and the rest mainly Scottish, with the odd elsewherian)