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Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Wimbledon just wouldn’t be Wimbledon without a little bit of disgruntled controversy and this year the high and mighty has raised the issue of the female grunt. Officials at this year’s Wimbledon are concerned that the ladies grunting had exceeded normal levels and is enough to put off their opponent.

A list compiled by the telegraph back in 2009 reported the top 10 grunters and the order hasn’t changed much over the last two years :

1. Maria Sharapova,

2. Michelle Larcher De Brito

3. Monica Seles

4. Serena Williams

5. Venus Williams

6. Victoria Azarenka

7. Elena Bovina

8. Anna Kournikova

9. Kim Clijsters

10. Elena Dementieva
(Source)

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Maria Sharapova The Queen Of The Grunt

The players concerned argue that grunting helps them put power behind the ball, which is understandable especially when you’re trying to win the greatest tennis tournament of all time!

Check out this short amusing video highlighting the Queen of The Grunt :

What do you guys think? Is grunting ok or not? Post a comment!

If you’ve got a good grunt then why not show it off in our fantastic pig costume available from our animal costumes section!

Get your grunt on!

Have a good weekend!

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Tags: Pig Costume, Wimbledon grunt
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Summer Costume Fun

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Wow June is already halfway through, but alas whilst time flies we’re certainly in for an action packed 2nd half to the month. With the Wimbledon 2011 championships beginning next week and the US Open Golf championships beginning this Thursday in the US, there is plenty to keep up with. Also last but not least, beginning this week is one of the most decorated and prestigious racehorse meetings, Royal Ascot. This prestigious event dates back to 1711 and is attended every year by HM Elizabeth II. With a reported 300,000 people making the visit this year to Ascot, Berks, this is one of the most attended race-meets in Europe.

Not only do we a love a little watch of the horses at Ace Fancy Dress, but we cannot get enough of seeing you guys out and about around the stands in some crazy fancy dress costumes, we see so many from the obvious Jockey & Horse costumes, to the classics like Bananaman, Superman, and Batman & Robin costumes. Especially in the summer months when the sun is out, the drink is flowing and your horse scooping you a few ‘bob’, a day at the races is a classic day out, and you can have our word – that its capped off when you see one of your mates in a hilarious costume!

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These chaps look in the know!

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So we think its fair to say the next few weeks have got a lot in store for us, which is great as we love our sport here at Ace HQ, so we will be happily keeping you fully up to date with our thoughts on the big races of the day and even maybe a few tips – courtesy of our man in the ‘know’ our stock control manager Travis (who managed a to tip a few winners on our Twitter & Facebook pages over the Cheltenham festival not long ago!). So get involved and get signed up with our Twitter and Facebook feeds where we also offer cool competitions, discounts and chat…keep up to date, keep in the know, keep Ace Fancy Dress!

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Perfect for the stag!

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Tags: Summer costume fun, The races
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The Hangover 2

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The premiere of the highly anticipated sequel to the Hangover took place last week. The usual suspects all feature including Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong and Todd Phillips. Production started in October 2010 and is scheduled for official release in the United States on May 26th. The theme for this movie follows the main cast Phil, Alan and Doug to Thailand for Stu’s wedding, but after their turn of events in Las Vegas that led to them being arrested, Stu decides to play it safe and organises a safe pre-wedding lunch. However, as you would expect from moviemaker Todd Phillips, things don’t go according to plan. After they lose the 16-year-old brother of Stu’s fiancée and wake up in Bangkok a whole host of entertaining events take place. Ireland’s very own Liam Neeson also makes an appearance as a tattoo artist having turned down Mel Gibson for the same role.

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Uh oh!

The premiere of the movie was considered a huge success and it wasn’t only the cast that that got all the attention. The newest cast member, Crystal the monkey, put on quite a show for the camera’s who showed up wearing an unusual pink ruffled dress! Sounds like a load of old monkey business to us!

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Monkey jump at Hollywood premiere

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Monkey costumes are great for fancy dress parties for a whole host of different fancy dress themes with one of the most popular being animal. We’re glad to say that we stock some fantastic animal costumes available for both men and women. Thanks to our new lines team our ladies animal section is growing by the week and we have had some awesome new animal costumes – everything from the sexy style to the dam right outrageous. Check out our awesome animal fancy dress online now!

The film is expected to hit UK cinemas on Thursday 26th May 2011.

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Tags: animal costumes, Hangover 2
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This Little Piggy

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

We love a bit of showbiz gossip here at Ace Fancy Dress and we must admit we’ve read endless stories about the beautiful people of this world parading around the coolest cities dressed in rather expensive clothes. That’s normally the case unless you’re Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, as they spent their weekend wondering around the streets of New York dressed as pigs to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim! It was reported in the New York post that that the super fly couple were out until the early hours partying at the SL nightclub in the meat packing district of New York. It’s thought that Demi sported some rather fetching pig ears whilst Ashton went the whole hog (get it) in a full pig overhead mask. We guess these were not bad disguises if they wanted to be left alone, although you would think that these aren’t the most sly of disguises! Oh well it’s nice to see some A list Hollywood celebrities firstly out in the public domain, but also getting into the spirit of the Jewish celebration in some good old fancy dress!

We love seeing celebs dressing up in fancy dress and the best time for celebrity sightings is no doubt Halloween, that’s when the full army of celebs comes out to show their darker sides (as reported in one of our previous blog posts). If you’re feeling in a similar spirit to that of Demi and Ashton why not have a look at our brilliant selection of animal costumes for adults? We stock almost 200 animal fancy dress costumes everything from the traditional style cow outfit to the full bodied gorilla costumes. Our animal costumes are brilliant party goers looking to attend their party in a couple as our joint adult category makes it easier browsing our entire inventory. Have a browse of our fantastic animal costumes, you never know, you might find the perfect animal fancy dress that shows your really wild side!

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Why not go the whole hog yourself?

Tags: Anima Fancy Dress, animal costumes, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher
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Norman Cooking Cold In Penguin Suit!

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

We love it when we see a celebrity donning the fancy dress look and superstar DJ Norman Cook is representing the fancy dress in style! Celebrating a wedding held in an aquarium the DJ turned up in a rather cool penguin suit to mark the occasion! Norman’s wife Zoe Ball who was dressed as a mermaid and son Woody, dressed as a frog, joined the DJ. Even Norman’s young daughter joined in the fun wearing a shark outfit! They were attending the wedding of Fatboy’s sister Lois, who dressed up as a prawn and groom Bill Morrow dressed in a crab outfit. Former strictly come dancing contestant Zoe Ball said: “Everyone loves fancy dress.” Check out the pics here.

Fancy dress weddings are something we’re getting used to hear at Ace Fancy Dress HQ and we have seen them all with one of our favourites being a medieval wedding that we supplied costumes for. Believe it or not some couples want to do something more unconventional for their wedding day and fancy dress certainly fits the bill and is also fun and helps people that don’t know each other break the ice! If you like the penguin costume that Norman is wearing then you can buy the same one from our brilliant selection of animal costumes!

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Pick up a penguin

Tags: animal costumes, Penguin costume
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Brace Yourself Bournemouth Animals!

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

So just when you thought that student pub-crawls couldn’t get any bigger …they do – all we can say is Bournemouth brace yourself! On Sunday March 27th Bournemouth will play host to one of the biggest ever pub crawls seen in this country with over 2400 students set to take part! Husssh Hush organisers have been busy planning the extravaganza saying that they have been busy co-coordinating with first aiders, police and security officials to make sure that the event goes off without any problems. Organiser Steve Flawith of hush hush has been quoted as saying the following:

"We’re putting things in place to make sure it’s really safe for everyone. It’s 2,400 people and we’re splitting them into groups of 600…we will keep within venues’ capacity limits. We will work very closely with the police. At the end of the day we wouldn’t be paying for so many doormen if we weren’t working with them. …If you look at a Saturday night out in town, what measures are put in place to control the people that are going out? We’re physically putting in as much as we can from a health and safety point of view." (source).

This year’s event is animal themed and we could not stock any more animal fancy dress if we tried. Our warehouse is packed to the rafters with over 200 different animal costumes for both men and women. We do everything from traditional cow costume to some sleek and sexy ladybird costumes. So if you’re thinking of making an appearance at the pub-crawl in Bournemouth, be sure to check out our adult animal costumes first, you might be pleasantly surprised to what you find. By the way, quick word of advice – if you’ve got plans to be in Bournemouth town on Sunday 27th March you might want to re-think them!

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Gorrila outfits are great sellers

Tags: animal costumes, Animal Fancy Dress, Bournemouth Pub Crawl
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Happy “National Dress Up Your Pet Day”!

Friday, January 14th, 2011

So you may remember our blog post from Tuesday talking about “National Dress Up Your Pet Day” which is celebrated today and we mentioned that one of our customer’s dog’s was going to be sporting a rather cool outfit. After some deliberation on what outfit would best suit our furry little friend “Dodger”, they decided that the princess Leia costume from Star Wars would do the trick. Many of our customers have given us some good feedback on dressing up your pet, here’s a couple of pointers:

- Think about personality, if you have a bull dog we’re sure he won’t appreciate being dressed in pink princess costume

- Think about climate, it’s really cold at the moment and a heavier thick outfit preferably with a hat would be most suitable.

If you forgot to get your pet a fancy dress outfit, it’s never too late to spoil him or her as we stock an extensive range of dog fancy dress costumes. All outfits come in various sizes to suit the specific breed of dog but if you’re concerned about size you can refer to our dog size guide. Don’t forget it’s winter and we’re bound to get more snow so your pet might even appreciate an extra layer to help keep warm!

Did anyone else celebrate the cause today? Please email us your pictures to sales@acefancydress.co.uk and we will put them up on our website.

Tags: Dog fancy dress costumes, National Dress Up Your Pet Day
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Celebrate National Dress Up Your Pet Day

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

For those of you that didn’t know January 14th is “national dress up your pet day” and we’re on hand to help. If you have a furry little friend then he/she might enjoy a day dedicated to them and we stock loads of dog fancy dress costumes to help you achieve the desired look! It may sound like a crazy idea and I suppose it is on the surface of it, but when you think about it, it’s actually quite a cool concept. Pets look so cute in fancy dress and judging by my neighbours pet dog, dressing up is enjoyable for the little furr balls. We recently went to a local barn dance at my local pub where they dressed up their pet dog “Nelson”, who sported a cowboy outfit, neckerchief and hat! He has never received so much attention and I had never seen Nelson with such a big smile on his adorable face. Come Friday we’re going to share with you one of our little furry friends dressed in one of our pet dog costumes.

So if you feel inspired check out our dog fancy dress costumes.

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PS. Watch this space…

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