Robin Hood ... Or Not?
@Sandra1952 (6047)
Spain
December 27, 2009 8:06am CST
We had a group of friends around, yesterday, and I was telling them how I wound up my best friend's husband on Christmas Day. He's quite short, and a bit sensitive about it, so I phoned and asked for the Christmas Elf. Pete and Mary, two of our visitors, looked at one another and burst out laughing.
Some years ago, they were invited to go to a New Year's Eve fancy dress party and decided to go as Robin Hood and Maid Marian. Pete quite fancied himself as an Erroll Flynn lookalike in his green tights and tunic and pointy hat, but the host thought otherwise. I should say here that Pete's rather vertically challenged as well. The host of the party took one look at Pete and said: 'Brilliant! You've come as the Christmas Elf, but who's Mary supposed to be?'
We all fell about laughing, and it got me thinking: Have you ever gone to a fancy dress party and somebody didn't 'get' who you were supposed to be? Or have you made that mistake about someon? Was it embarrassing, or funny, or a bit of both?
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@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
29 Dec 09
Hello, Gabs. I think they did recognise him - they just wanted to wind him up a bit. It made for a hilarious half hour on Saturday, as he tells a good story, coming from the West Country. Then people kept chipping in with 'Elf 'n Safety' puns as well!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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27 Dec 09
I think that I must have missed out Sandra. I have never been to a fancy dress party as an adult apart from a vicars and tarts party when I was about 20 and living in Germany. I did once go to a party where the girls swopped clothes with the boys. My then GF dressed me in her velvet dress. Not a good image! LOL.
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@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
27 Dec 09
Hello, Pikey. I'm just trying to imagine that! I've been to quite a few fancy dress parties, and it's amazing how people lose all their inhibitions just because they're dressed as someone else. I always try to stay off the vodka, because it's much more fun watching the antics if you're sober!
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Dec 09
I don't recall mistaking a costume or having mine misunderstood, but I can totally relate to the short jokes. Once my family got comfortable with my husband it was open season. I do recall one Halloween at work, this co-worker Peggy, who was rather plain looking, came in dressed as Marilyn Monroe. Everybody was complimenting her on how nice she looked. Her response, "what did I look like before?" Yikes....
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Dec 09
People here do dress up as celebrities and all sorts of things, not just scary creatures.
@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
30 Dec 09
Hello, Dawn. I just wonder why she thought Marilyn Monroe was a suitable costume for Hallowe'en? Still, each to his own, I suppose.
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
27 Dec 09
Hello Sandra, perish the thought that you'd ever catch me a fancy dress party, not my thing at all, full of people dressed up as tarts. You fooled me here my dear, I was expecting a nice bit of reminiscence about the Sherif of Nottingham (when did the forest stop having a sherif by the way?) and poor old Robin compared to a communist. 
@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
27 Dec 09
Hello, Thea. I must be catchng the Dawn Disease of misleading titles! So that's somewhere we differ, then? If you ever steal one of those Italian camper vans to stop them having convoys, don't bother joining the Motorcaravanner's Club, because they love any excuse to dress up. I must agree with you, though. Lots of people seem to read 'tarty with everything on display' on the invitation, rather than 'fancy dress.'
I cheat when we're invited to a fancy dress do - I just put on my flamenco dress and a flower in my hair!
@jb78000 (15139)
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27 Dec 09
oh dear. robin hood is mistaken for a christmas elf 
. poor little elf, although that is funny. i haven't been to a fancy dress party where cases of mistaken identity took place, although i have been to one where my costume (which i thought was nice and original) was the same as that of three others and we all got a bit of teasing. vaguely funny but not exactly embarrassing.
. poor little elf, although that is funny. i haven't been to a fancy dress party where cases of mistaken identity took place, although i have been to one where my costume (which i thought was nice and original) was the same as that of three others and we all got a bit of teasing. vaguely funny but not exactly embarrassing.1 person likes this
@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
27 Dec 09
Hello, Judith. Three of you the same, eh? What did you go as? I once went to an ordinary party where another woman had on the same dress as me. Not my dress, obviously, but one just like it. After I got over the shock, I sashayed over and said, 'Hello, I'm Sandra. I just had to come over and compliment you on your excellent taste in clothes!' That raised a few laughs.
