Fancy Dress Costume Themes_Underground Stations - Costume Ideas

If you are not British, you probably already think that us Brits are completely eccentric anyway, but this hub will probably prove that we are all completely 'barking mad'!

There has been a little bit of confusion as to what this hub is all about so I will try to explain it for all of my readers that are not based in the UK.

The theme that has been chosen is The London Underground, sometimes also known as 'The Tube'. Your guests have to dress up as the name of one of the stations. It is a play on words and you need to think a bit outside the box! Some stations may be linked to something, Wembley for example is England's home venue for football, so you could dress up as a footballer. Holloway has a large ladies prison, so you could wear a convict outfit. Hope you get the idea! I appreciate that it may difficult for non UK residents to get all of the costume suggestions, but hopefully it may give you some ideas for your own more local area, think about the New York subway stations and see if you can think of costumes that could be used.

Choosing 'London Underground Stations' for a party theme is a great idea. Your guests however may not agree with you! They will receive an invitation and particularly, if they are not keen on dressing up, may not turn up at all, or turn up but refuse to wear a costume. Costume parties work best when all, or at least the majority of your guests are dressed up. So what can you do? Well, this hub, I hope, will help. I have listed lots of London Underground Stations below and given some costume ideas. You could print this list off or give your guests a link to this page so they can have a look. For even more underground station costume ideas have a look here.

No matter how much information you give there will still be a small percentage of people who just do not like dressing up. Fair enough, not everyone is the same. I have given some ideas of props or wigs that can be used for some Underground Stations. Most guests who do not dress up will often regret it once they have arrived as they feel like an outsider. We can't have that, so It may be worth your while buying a few of these accessories that you can hand out to these guests.

• A beehive wig - High Barnet
• Monolopy Money - Pinned on to 'normal' clothes - Bank
• Safety Pins - Pinner
• Wings - Angel
• Chef's Hat - Baker Street
• Dog Mask - Barking
• Tennis racket - Wimbledon
• Picture of Vauxhall car - Vauxhall
• Bows - Pinned on for Bow
• Cricket bat - Oval

Some of these require more work than others but hopefully they will give you a starting point.

North Wembley - Football kit

Wembley Central - Football kit

Queens Park - Queen costume with parking sign. You could always use a Freddie Mercury type of costume to make it more difficult to guess

Maida Vale - Maid costume wearing a veil

Paddington - Paddington Bear

Baker Street - Chef or Sherlock Holmes Costume

Oxford Circus - Clown costume wearing a mortar board or Oxford Dictionary. Or wear a headmaster gown, mortar board with a clown's red nose and/or face paint.

Regent Park - Royal type of costume with a parking sign

Charing Cross - Maid (or Char) costume holding/wearing a cross

Waterloo - Abba or Nelson or Napoleon costume

Elephant & Castle - Elephant Costume maybe carrying a picture of a castle

Shepherds Bush - Shepherd/Nativity costume with a large beard

Holland Park - Dutch costume with a parking sign

Notting Hill Gate -Carnival costume

Royal Oak - Brown trousers, green top, green wig and a crown

Bow Road - Covered with lots of various bows

Queensbury - Queen costume holding some berries______________________________________________________________

Bond Street - Dinner Suit / Wet suit

Tottenham Court Road - Football kit with a court wig

St Pauls Bishop costume

Kings Cross - Elvis costume with a cross

Cannon Street - Religious Costume

Blackfriars - Black Monk costume

Victoria - Queen Victoria / Victorian costume

Sloane Square - Twin set and pearls, la de da voice

Barons Court - Baron Costume, court wig

Earls Court - Georgian Costume with a court wig

West Ham - West Ham Football kit

Upton Park - West Ham Football kit

Barking Dog - costume

Hornchurch - Religious Costume with horns

Kingsbury- King costume holding some berries

Canary Wharf - Canary Costume___________________________________________________________

As your guests arrive it would be a good idea to try and have music on that helps to create the mood and has a train / underground theme. Once the party gets underway, normal party music can continue.

Some musical ideas include:

• Going Underground - The Jam
• The Locomotion - Kylie Monogue
• Waterloo - Abba
• Blue Train - Johnny Cash
• Downbound Train - Bruce Springsteen
• Downtown Train - Rod Stewart
• Friendship Train - The Temptations
• Ghost Train - Bee Gees
• Hear My train a Comin' - Jimi Hendrix
• I'm Leaving on a Goods Train -
• Locomotive - Motorhead
• Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
• Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
• Runaway Train - Elton John
• Runaway Train - Eric Clapton
• Silver Train - Rolling Stones
• Station to Station - David Bowie

I am sure you can think of some more...

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North Greenwich - Watch or clock, arrow pointing north

Oval - Cricket gear

Angel Islington - Angel costume

South Wimbledon - Womble costume or tennis whites

Knightsbridge - Knight costume, holding a picture of a bridge

Covent Garden - Vampire costume holding a bunch of flowers

Caledonian Road - Scottish Costume

Holloway - Convict

Arsenal - Arsenal football kit or carrying loads of weapons

Cockfosters - Chicken costume holding a can of Fosters larger

Blackhorse - Black horse costume

Seven Sisters - Attach 6 blow up dolls to each other on a pole (+ you)

West India Quay - West Indian man or lady holding a key

Whitechapel - Jack the Ripper (Victorian costume)

New Cross - Large Cross