Fairytales

Our fancy dress fairytales are a wondeful type of enchanting short story embued with a great richness and depth of meaning allowing our imaginations to flourish. They are equally loved by both adults and children and typically include fantasy characters such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, mermaids and witches, many of which can use magic or enchantments. As we watch the fairytale unravel a little bit of the sparkle and magic rubs off on us - so we can bring a little magic into our lives! Most modern fairytales include the magical happily ever after end scene, but this is really just a new concept that transformed fairytales for a movie going audience, original fairytale books where much darker than this.

Original writers of fairy tales include the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault  and Hans Christian Anderson, their fairytales where then adapted into much loved films by movie companies such as Walt Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks.

Disney is a company that is well known to bring Fairytales to life with the work of their brilliant animation and the soundtracks used in the film. Disney's most well known fancy dress fairytales include Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Sleeping Beauty, Tangled and Frozen.

Pixar is a company that works closely with Disney, they help create the magic that is in some of our favourite fairytales. Pixar's most well known fairytales include Brave, Toy Story and the Incredibles.

DreamWorks is an independent film company, this company is well known for its less traditionally fairytales and soundtracks. DreamWorks most well known fairytales include Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and How to Train Your Dragon.

Here at Elliotts we have a whole range of fairytale costumes from your favourite princesses, to your mighty heroes and even your fantasy creatures such as dragons, dinosaurs and mermaids. So why not take a step into Once Upon A Time and dress up as your favourite fairytale character.