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Solicitors in Christmas fancy dress: A bit early or a little late?

Solicitors in Worcestershire are sure to turn a few heads later this month when they dress up in Christmas fancy dress. Staff at Thursfields and other local firms are to join together to take part in the 5k Santa Love Run on February 20th 2011, the Worcester News reports. However, they haven't all gone mad - the event was supposed to take place last December, but terrible weather stopped play and meant it had to be postponed. Organisers consequently waited until this month and added 'love' to the name to... Read more...

Lady Gaga not a fan of Christmas fancy dress

She may be a fan of every other kind of costume, but apparently Lady Gaga is not greatly enamoured with Christmas fancy dress. The controversial pop star surprised fans at the O2 Arena last night (December 16th 2010) by taking her dislike of the festive season out on a stuffed doll. A fan threw the toy, which was sporting Santa fancy dress, on to the stage and it landed near her as she was performing. Lady Gaga broke off to bite the head off Read more...

Alex Reid plans to wear Christmas fancy dress for the kids

Alex Reid has revealed he plans to wear Christmas fancy dress this year in order to make wife Katie Price's kids happy. The cage fighter told the Loose Women on ITV1 this week that he loves the festive season. "I am definitely going to dress up as Santa Claus and we have the kids with us this year," he said, according to the Daily Star. Although he revealed that Katie is not pregnant, he said he can "see it in my heart" that she will be soon. However, with rumours... Read more...

Christmas fancy dress event brings plenty of revellers to San Francisco

Hundreds of revellers headed to San Francisco over the weekend to take part in an annual Christmas fancy dress event in the Bay area. Father Christmas fancy dress was the order of the day at SantaCon, which sees people don costumes and go out to the city's various bars and eateries to spread merriment. There were also plenty of elves to help the santas go about their business, which no doubt included partaking in plenty of sherry-drinking. A barman at the Read more...

Nursing home resident looks forward to donning Christmas fancy dress again

He may be wheelchair-bound and a little hard of hearing at 78, but that won't stop nursing home resident Sam Hudson from getting out his Christmas fancy dress again this year. The granddad lives at Redcote Residential Home in Lea and wears Santa fancy dress every festive season in order to entertain local children and other residents, the Gainsborough Standard reports. He already has plenty of experience, having played St Nick every year since 1960, even going to Read more...

Santa shunned for Christmas fancy dress this year?

Anyone going to a Christmas fancy dress party soon may notice a distinct lack of jolly fat men in red suits. This year at Escapade, it has been noted with some surprise that sales of Father Christmas fancy dress are down to their lowest levels in the last ten years, with shoppers instead selecting other attire in which to dress up. Our own Bhupendra Maisuria commented: "I think the general consensus is that Santa is an obvious choice for dressing up for Christmas Read more...

Christmas fancy dress - in the middle of summer?!

If you're the kind of person who lives for the festive season, then you may want to pack up your Santa fancy dress costume and head to Rotherham next month.No, you didn't read that wrong - we did say next month, because some slightly bonkers councillors have decided that staging Christmas in July would attract visitors to the town and boost its income.As a result, bars, pubs and shops will be putting up Christmas decorations, throwing around artificial snow and offering cheap drinks for those Read more...