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As the summer season approaches, so does the festival season. Whether this is your first ever festival or you’re a seasoned festival-goer, you need the right outfits to make you look the part and to give you the true festival experience. That’s where we come in. We have created this list of our favourite festival costume ideas so you can stop worrying about your look and start looking forward to the memories you’re going to make.

Inflatable Costumes

Festivals are all about the fun. Bring the fun into your fancy dress with an inflatable costume and watch as it brings a smile to the faces of everyone around you. Get into character and warn everyone about the alien abduction, travel back in time with a dinosaur costume, or become a delicious fruity pineapple snack. These are all great options, but what’s our favourite inflatable costume? It has to be the rubber duck costume, complete with hat and fake legs.

Animals

Let your wild side roam free with an animal costume or onesie. With a huge range of animals to choose from, gather your friends and have a day (or whole weekend) of animal themed festival fun.

You could gather your mates for a zoo or aquarium fancy dress theme, with so many animals to choose from including penguins, lions, giraffes, elephants, and octopuses to name just a few.

Would you like something a bit closer to home? Keep your much loved furry (or feathered) friend close to your heart while you're away for a couple of days with a pet costume. From cats, dogs, rabbits, and horses to parrots, chickens, and even llamas and donkeys.

Going to a festival in the UK? Celebrate the British countryside with animals you’d see in the wild and at farm parks like a cow, pig, lamb, fox, frog, or butterfly.

Still not found your ideal costume? Maybe you need to bring a bit of mythical magic to your animal costume with the unicorn or dragon outfit.

Bodysuits

We all know that festivals can get hot and sweaty, especially when you’re dancing in the crowd, living your best life. Therefore, an outfit that’s going to allow you to stay cool while enjoying yourself is important. Fever bodysuits come in a range of designs to keep you cool while still looking hot.

From alien, cheetah, and holographic bodysuits to the more revealing fishnet rainbow, flame, and slashed black bodysuits, you’re bound to find a design to match your style. But don’t forget to bring those all important nipple covers to wear under the more see-through bodysuits. Which nipple covers do you think would go best with your bodysuit? The rainbow hearts, mermaid stars, colourful flowers, glittery lightning bolts, or the black crosses.

Looking for something a bit less revealing? Full length catsuits are also a great festival outfit. With designs like the smiley, holographic and geometric catsuits, you can have just as much fun with your look in whatever costume you feel most comfortable in.

Stand Out Suits

Suits at a festival? You may be thinking that’s way too formal (and you would be right). But these aren’t your normal day to day suits. Stand Out Suits do exactly what it says on the tin - they stand out. With a range of wacky and fun-loving designs, you won’t look out of place walking around a festival in your watermelon, sunflower, clouds, or neon suit (and the list goes on).

Colourful Outfits

Bringing a splash of colour and a sprinkling of rainbow to your outfit will go down a treat at most festivals. But how colourful you decide to go is totally up to you. If you just want to add a touch of colour to your outfit, you could add some rainbow tights, sequin rainbow shorts, or a rainbow bum bag. But if you want to go all out on the colours, we’ve got the outfits you need. Make a big statement and stand out from the crowd with a bright rainbow dress, rainbow trousers, or a full rainbow suit.

Another way to bring colour into your festival trip is to bring out the hippy costumes. Throughout the 60s and 70s, colour was popping all over the place with a range of colourful designs and styles that people of all genders can enjoy. Our personal favourites that we just know you are going to love are the bright green top and trouser set, the tie dye top and trouser set, the flower power dress, and the tie dye dress.

Jackets

Don’t forget that the finishing touches to your outfit is what makes the difference between looking on point and missing the mark. Don’t put all your hard work in finding the perfect costumes to waste by combining them with your normal boring jacket. Whether you want to stand out from the crowd in a red, rainbow, or gold tinsel jacket or you want to be a bit more lowkey (but not too lowkey) with a pom pom jacket or an animal poncho, you’re guaranteed to find the perfect jackets to match your outfits at Fancy Dress World.