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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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Some 40, 000 spectators clad in fancy dress will pack out the Hong Kong Stadium for the three-day annual event, held 23 to 25 March this year.
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Zeta Jones will lead the parade through Harvard Square in fancy dress on 10 February, followed by a presentation and a question and answer session with the actress.
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All the people I talk to perched on their tractors, waving their banners - done out in fancy dress that makes one point or another - are looking to their governments for solutions.
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But in Olympic-themed fancy dress outfits they waved to the crowd and collected donations as they walked the route.
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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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This long involved young men trying to catch the eye of women, typically by donning fancy dress (in the cold war a favourite was the garb of Soviet border guards) or through good-natured abduction often in combination.
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Mr White, who was sitting in the public gallery during the evidence, had earlier told the jury he and Ms Manning had gone separate ways after attending a 1970s-themed fancy dress party and a night club in Milton Keynes.
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To conquer reserve, fancy dress was worn, often involving men in women's clothing.
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When in 1883 Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrayed for a fancy-dress ball as Electric Light, topped off her satin and diamonds with a large incandescent bulb, it subtracted nothing from the elegance of the scheme.
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Shop assistant Miss Manning had been to a fancy dress party and a nightclub with Mr White when she walked off alone in the early hours of 10 December.
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