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Tag: fancy dress

The evolution of fancy dress

5th May 201727th May 2017Maya Shahor

All this talk of dressing up has got me thinking, where did it all begin? Like many parts of history, it turns out we are not entirely sure. But one thing is for certain: the Masquerade movement was very important, though fancy dresses began very differently from what we know today. Masquerade is thought to […]

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The fashion police on the Traffic Light Party

4th October 2013Emily Bootle

With the looming prospect of Freshers’ Week in all its overhyped glory comes the even darker thought of its fancy dress themes, the darkest of which is arguably the unashamedly crude Traffic Light Party. Not only is the idea of ‘stop’, ‘go’ and ‘maybe if you buy me thirty shots of Sourz’ (the verdancy of […]

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Behind the mask of Freshers’ Week fancy dress themes

16th September 201320th September 2013Eleanor Grange

Before all of you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed freshlings descend upon Oxford for Freshers’ Week, what to wear to the inevitable plethora of club nights will no doubt be at the forefront of your mind.  Advice from fresher veterans of yesteryear will be ringing in your ears: ‘wear comfy shoes’, ‘only wear, or take out, items […]

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