Dressing Up

Kids love to dress up. Dressing up is an important part of imaginative play. So whether you are looking for play costume, a costume for a special party, school play, ballet production, themed day at school, for a birthday or halloween party, here are some great places to find just what you are looking for.

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• Jokers Masquerade
  Joker's Masquerade have a huge selection of costumes to buy. From the latest popular characters such as Shrek, The Incredibles, and Thunderbirds, there are perrenial favourites like police, fire and ambulance, clowns, Disney characters, Power Rangers, Looney Tunes Characters like Tweety Pie, Taz and Bugs Bunny, Batman, Superman and Supergirl, and favourite characters from nursey rhymes and fairy stories.
• Angels Fancy Dress
  Angels has supplied costumes to hundreds of films that have won Oscars, including Titanic and Shakespeare in Love. They have costumes for children and adults on almost any theme you can think of - from your favourite TV shows and films, Halloween & Christmas, superheroes, angels , fairies, cowboys & indians, doctors & nurses, clowns and historical costumes. Tick the 'preferences' box marked kids to make the children's costumes easier to find.
• Ultimate Party Shop
  Great kids dressing up costumes including cowboys, red indians, pirates, clowns and faries as well as seasonal costumes for Halloween.
• notonthehighstreet.com
  Quality costumes including faries, dinosaurs, a judge, pirates and princesses. All items are from creative, imaginative, high quality small businesses, all for sale in one place.
• Cowboys & Cupcakes
  Costumes including fairies. elves, pirates, knights, wizards, forefighters, princesses and more.
• Letterbox
  Classic favourite dressing up costumes - policemen, cowboys, indians, knights, princesses, fairies, superheroes, animals and some spooky costumnes for Halloween.
• Silly Jokes
  Silly Jokes have a big selection of great value kids costumes. With classics such as cowboys and indians, knights and princesses, Robin Hood, pirates, Romans, Egyptians they also stock dance costumes, Elvis outfits, doctors, nurses, soldiers and many more.
• Party Domain
  Party Domain is one of the longest established party sites in the UK. They have a wide selection of children's costumes including angels, witches, clowns, cowboys and indians, ninjas, pirates, Robin Hood, firefighter, racing driver and many more.
• The Kids Window
  For great party costumes, Kids Window have animals including a lopard, dinosaur or a cow, witches, Harry Potter, Disney Characters, Fairies, Angels and role playing outfits. They also sell face painting kits to finish the outfit off! Weekly Offers at The Kids Window
• TheToyShop.com
  Thetoyshop.com is the online division of The Entertainer, the UK's largest independent toy retailer. Princesses and superheroes to favourite TV and film characters.
• Great Little Trading Company
  Girls and Boys dressing-up boxes containing 5 costumes.
• Amazon.co.uk
  Find a great selection of dressing up costumes from Amazon. For boys and girls up to 7-8 years old.

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