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The country is not returning to 1977 and its home-made fancy-dress costumes or Coronation bunting dug out of attics.
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The New Year's Day dip, organised by the Panama Swimming Club at Whitley Bay, regularly attracts a host of people in fancy dress costumes.
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Labour dares not tinker with the City's ancient guilds and their elaborate ceremonies, which offer pinstriped bankers a chance to dress in fancy costumes and dine in grand halls.
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The dramatic use of light (by Jean Kalman, re-created by Cor van den Brink) heightened the starkness of Blanche's world, zeroing in on the central figures in each of the scenes and illuminating the white elements Blanche's dress (the costumes were by Falk Bauer), her novice's headdress, the faces, and the bed linen of the First Prioress, who dies in agony and terror.
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" Carsen insists this is one of Kinmonth's greatest talents: "Often you want people to be wearing real clothes, not costumes, and when people are wearing 18th- or 19th-century dress, which doesn't feel contemporary to us, it's not as easy.
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"When you wear the dress, you also wear it out, " says Pat Frost, director of textiles and costumes at Christie's.
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