Wilfred - Easy Party costume

It’s worth dropping in to discuss the selection if you have time.

Tuesday night, 24th Jan, we can be open late if you need to drop by, but the shop will be closed from Thurdsay 26th Jan to Tuesday the 31st Jan.

If you need to find something by Wednesday for the Australia day weekend, ring up and make an appointment. We’re out and about sourcing materials but our hours are flexible for those of you who work late.

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These costume photos will give you some idea of the things we have available to hire from Agent Costume at Bondi Beach for your next Fancy dress party.

Get some costume ideas then come in and pick something out.
Please call first to confirm someone will be there to help you put your ultimate look together.

If someone is in while you’re walking past, then feel free to come in and ask questions to help you find your next ultimate costume.

We are often out and about working on other costuming projects, sourcing fabrics, delivering jobs etc.

Who wants to wear a Super hero costume?
Up Up and AwaaaaaaaAAAAYY!
Who doesn’t dream of using super hero powers everyday, levitating objects up and off those unreachable top shelves, melting the cheese in your sandwich with lazier beam eyes, flying ahead to catch the bus on time, or to impress the girl at the bus stop more like, after all who needs a bus with those powers?

The next super hero party you go to, you need people to know to take you seriously. Forget those wimpy little online cheaply bought costumes that don’t do up at the back, or ladder before you get to wear it again.
The problem is, where do you find one? They’re all too small for your big muscles, the sleeves are too small, or they don’t hug in the right places.

This Super Little Lady is made for a busty super girl, in size 12 to 16.
Need a smaller one? Let me know, we’ll have it ready for your party if there is time.
For custom made or costume hire, contact Agent costume below to find out what’s available.

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Last minute Santa CostumeHire available! Pick it up before Dec 23, and return after Dec 29.
He’s amazing, much nicer than any other Santa Costume available on the market for the same price.

Santa is ready to go with all accessories including Santa Christmas sack with bells on it!

Santa costume is here!

Deluxe Santa suit hire for bargain hire price!

Includes wig, beard, hat, glasses, pants with boots, jacket, tummy, belt, gloves, and present sack with bells on!

Inquire now for availability.

Other Christmas character costume ideas:
Mary Christmas, Mrs Claus, Angels, Elves, candy canes, Christmas puddings, christmas parcels, Bon-Bons, Christmas crackers, the three wise men, nativity scene…

Cool runnings costumes for hire!
In fact I just sent I one to Brisbane for this weekend, leaving 4, a complete bobsled team left to party on this weekend!

Made to fit 6 foot tall plus guys.
So get your mates together, call up and book them! Complete with totally blingin’ chunky gold chain first place medals.
Awesome!

Tell your friends.

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Hooping is an all time fun craze for children’s birthday parties, Hen’s nights, and corporate events, adaptable to events for children and adults of all ages, and parties of all Themes.

Are you looking for the next fun thing for your gorgeous child’s next Birthday Party? Your next fun Co-orporate event?
What about your girlfriends Hen’s night entertainment? Get those hips moving with hypnotic circular motion, watch in amazement and join in under the experienced tutorage of BunnyHoopStar herself!

Sydney’s incomparable Hooping extraodinaire BunnyHoopStar is polished to WoW, Wonder, and physically engage your guests with colourful hooping antics, light and fire shows if appropriate.

A mesmerising show and guest participation can be designed to suit your requirements and space, so what are you waiting for?

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Get your guests dressed up for circus, Wonderland, Disco themes, Cowboys and Indians, Space Age themes and more, and organise Hooping Star BunnyHoopStar to design a Hooping set to suit your theme.

Contact BunnyHoopStar directly for discussion and quote, and have her team contribute to a party that will be talked about for years to come:

BunnyHoopStar’s Hoop Empire

Hoopla!
Let the party begin!

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What do I wear to a 1970′s fancy dress costume party?

The answer is: which ever style of the seventies which best resonates with you.

Ask yourself, do you want to be all glitz and glamour, or would you prefer a more toned down denim or leather casual look? Are you a Studio 54 sequins and satin lycra? or are you more of a hippy, peace signs and wooden beads? Are you more edgy punk? Are you a cowboy from a western film made in the Seventies, or a cowboy from the village people?

What are you going to feel comfortable in? What are other people going to be wearing? Would you like to push your boundaries and surprise your work colleagues with your imagination and outrageous daring? or would you prefer to walk the line and simply set the tone in a basic way, not too far from you current look?

Let’s take a look at some of the styles, movies, TV shows and fashion influences of the Seventies to get a better idea of what you like.

Genres:
Disco, Glam Rock, Pop, Blaxploitaion, Soul, Hippy, Funk, Progressive Rock, soft rock, Punk Rock

TV shows:
Charlies Angels, The Brady Bunch, The partridge Family, Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Are you being served?, The Bionic woman, Dallas, Diff’rent strokes, Mork and Mindy, Six Million Dollar Man, The Sonny and Cher comedy hour, Fantasy Island, Good Times, Happy Days (although set in the 50′s), Wonder Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Monkey Magic.

That seventies show,

Movies – made in or referencing the Seventies:
Xanadu, Star Wars, Austin Powers – Gold Member, The Rocky Horror Picture show, Grease (though it was set in the fifties), The Exorcist, Jaws, Superman, Logan’s Run, Apocalypse Now, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Blazing Saddles, Caberet, Dirty Harry, The Wiz – A Motown take on the Wizard of Oz, Rocky, The Godfather, The Jerk, King Kong, The lady in Red, Carrie, Clockwork Orange,

Music of the times- in no particular order:
Bee Gees, Blondie, Donna Summer, Jackson Five, Super Tramp, Queen, The Osmonds, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Joan Baez, The Village People, Ziggy Starudst, The Supremes, Simon and Garfunkle, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Olivia Newton John, Suzie Quatro, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, The Doors – Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Elton John, ABBA, The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Gary Glitter, Cat Stevens, Elvis Presley, AC/DC, Sherbet, Dragon, Bob Marley, The Clash, Split Enz, Joy division

and there’s more….

Hairstyles:
Afro, Mullet, long with middle part

Pants: Bell bottoms, hot pants

Glam rock inspiration:
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust, Roxy Music, Gary Glitter

Punk inspiration:
Sex pistols, Vivienne Westwood and Malcom McLaren- fashion designers
Siouxsie and the Banshees

Glam rock lurex jumpsuits!

Blaxploitation movies – Shaft, Cleopatra jones, Foxy Brown, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,

Star spangled Glam Rock jumpsuit, seventies costume

Glam rock black sequin costume jumpsuit

1970's rock star and jumpsuit

Agent Costume custom made costumes made it into “Party of the Week” section of the Sunday Herald Sun. Awesome!

I made the silver skirt, space age booties and fingerless silver gloves sported by Chissy Bray from We Go Bang Bang, pictured here with a gorgeous bumble bee.

And I made the amazing Air hostess and satin lined suitcase filled with all sorts of air-travel no-no’s worn by the Party Queen and host herself, Tiffany Farrington.

The air hostess dress, hat and suitcase was constructed slowly after several weeks. Tiffany, is an incredibly creative woman who knows how to put a great idea together and build on it.
She basically came to me with her idea already thought through. All she needed was a person with the technical know-how and time to put it together.

I drew some illustrations to double check I was getting what she was putting down and she sent reference photos and images whenever required to illustrate her ideas.

We had fittings, we had fabric sample checks, colour checks, all to make sure the design was progressing as desired.

It is a great pleasure to work with someone who knows what they want and sticks with it! There was no dithering around saying “maybe this,” “maybe that,” no major decision changing or dramas as to what’s going to look best, it was a pretty steady progression right from the initial discussion to the final outcome, and she was always on hand when I needed to navigate potential barricades or hurdles.
And at the end, it was strange saying goodbye to the suitcase! After the weeks of cutting holes, spray painting, hacking the insides and re lining it all, padding it and making it comfortable, it was strange to realise it was suddenly complete, and ready to party!

And what do you know? There it is in the Sunday Herald Sun! Very exciting for me.

Peter Pan is flying away this week to a party in the city.

“Peter Pan doesn’t have leather wrist cuffs!”

“But darling, he’s going to a party, you’d expect him to make an effort!” Says Peter.

(Some guys love wearing leather cuffs, it adds more to their costumes)

Depending on the party, one can dress any character up or down relating to the type of party and the people who’ll be there.

“Do you have a sword?” he says..
“Peter Pan doesn’t have a sword!” says his girlfriend.

but aHaahh! How does he fight Captain Hook then?

“Do you have a wooden sword?” he asks, looking up expectantly.

“Yes! The answer is yes! – but wait, it’s in my imagination…let me just make a quick call to one of my woodworking contacts”

So I’m on the phone talking to Agent Foo: “I’ll make you a sword,” he says “but you’ll have to take a bond, and tell your clients not to fight with it. They’ll dint it and lose their bond!”
“Well, what’s the point of that then? Who cares if it’s got dints? It’s an imaginary sword!”
“I’m just saying, it will be a beautiful sword, take care of it”
“Well don’t make it too beautiful, tone it down a bit please. It’s a big kids imaginary plaything.”

Three days later, the sword has arrived! And now I’m staining it with some Traditional Stain, Craftsman finish, just for that extra professional touch.
(Never-mind I accidentally sprayed the sword with contact adhesive instead of varnish the first time around. I couldn’t work out why it was so sticky! Was it a reaction to the stain?? Had to remove it somehow and re-spray the darn thing! We got there in the end.)

Every now and again I have to stop and think, I really am building a fancy dress shop with my bare hands – and of course the aid of a few Agents here and there – one costume at a time.

Peter Pan Costume! Hire him for your Christmas party! Suits the themes Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, mythological, magic, Come Fly with Me, “P” party…and more, surely!

Here he is on a 6 foot 4 bloke. YaY! a Peter Pan costume for big kids!

Peter Pan can wear booties or go bare foot, depending on where the party is and what type of people will be there.

A brand new sword, not to shabby, not too polished, in need of some aging.

Peter Pan sword stained with some old timber stain we just happened to have on hand.

Don’t worry, he told me he would have a shave before the party!