The idea is to take an outfit name, such as “bell bottoms” and make a literal version, for example attaching bells onto your derriere.

A week/month in advance have a selection of names for clothing items (suggestions below) in a hat and members draw one (keeping it secret), which is the outfit they need to make.

It works best in a large group so that your ladies have an audience to watch the show, with a ‘runway’ area to show off the creations. One at a time (but timed to make the show progress without too much break between each), the ladies get changed into their outfits (secret until the reveal), and show them off.

Having fun descriptions to read out as the ladies are showing off their creations would be good, and the Commentator can wear a sack dress with potatoes on it (common-tater 😉 )

Examples

  • “Pillbox hat” – a hat with medication boxes attached
  • “Ball gown” – dress with balls attached
  • “Bloomers” – pants with artificial flowers on them
  • “Double breasted jacket” – jacket with 2 bras
  • “Print Dress” – Dress made out of newspapers
  • “14 Karat Necklace” – 14 plastic carrots made into a necklace
  • “Crop Top” – A blouse or pants with plastic vegetables attached to it
  • “Tea Dress” – Dress with tea bags attached to it
  • “Straw Hat” – Hat with plastic drinking straws attached to it
  • “Bare Feet” – bear slippers
  • “Box pleated skirt” – hang small boxes from ribbons fastened around waist
  • “Dressed to the Nines” – fasten the number 9 on a garment
  • “Panty hose” – Fasten a length of garden hose to a pair of coloured underpants
  • “Baby doll PJ’s'” – small dolls onto a pair of PJ’s
  • “Hot pants” – A heating pad front and back on a pair of shorts
  • “spring dress/hat” – Slinkies or springs attached to the dress/hat
  • “pin stripe” – rows of safety pins
  • “An EYE catching dress” – attach weird eye glasses to it, with a huge eye drawn on paper and pinned to the back of it.
  • “Tie Back” – men’s ties pinned to the back
  • “Chequred dress” – blank cheques pinned on dress
  • “Turtleneck” – a stuffed turtle tied around one’s neck
  • “Brief case” – pair of men’s briefs stretched over a purse
  • “cocktail dress” – a long evening dress covered with small plastic glasses, or feathers
  • “Cotton Dress” – cotton balls stuck to the dress
  • “A-Line” – letter “A____” written on garment
  • “Sweet Ensemble” – garment covered in lollies
  • “House Shoes” – pictures of houses on the shoes.
  • “Card’igan” – fasten playing cards or greeting cards onto a jumper
  • “plunging neck line” – a toilet plunger on a rope hung around the neck
  • “Sweat pants” – attach empty deodorant bottles to a pair of tracksuit pants
  • “Regular Dress” – prunes, bran, laxatives.
  • “Garden Dress” – seed packages on it
  • “sun dress” – dress covered with pictures of the sun