Minnie Mouse Costume
Published May 7th, 2008 by chirundu
Costumes and fancy dress from Disney have always been very popular and with the classic Disney characters like Mickey Mouse Costumes, Donald Duck, Woody and Buzz Lightyear costumes from Toystory, Tinkerbell costumes from the Peter Pan story and Disney film, you can see why. But for me one of my faves has always been Minnie Mouse Costumes.
Where did Minnie Mouse and her fancy dress come from?
Mickey Mouse, the brain child of Walt Disney was created in 1928 and he knew from his prior hit with Oswald the Luck Rabbit that Mickey would need to have a sweetheart and that character was to become Minnie Mouse.
Fancy Dress and the Minnie Mouse Costume
In the beginning of Mickey Mouse, Minnie did not yet have a name, but her dress and costume was in the fashion of a flapper girl which was in the 1920’s more than just fashion, but also almost a movement, where young women would wear short skirts, wear bobbed hair and mostly listened and danced to Jazz music. They were also initially thought to wear excessive makeup, were too casual with their views on sex, smoked and generally behaved in such a way that was looked down on. So for Walt Disney to have the Minnie Mouse Costume in the form of a flapper girl must have been a gamble at the time, but now because of that I think that is what makes the Minnie Mouse costume one of the most popular Disney costumes out there.
So most Minnie Mouse costumes that you can buy on-line and in fancy dress shops to this day have a dress that resembles a flapper dress and is almost always red with white spots and comes with the black mouse ears.
Places on the web to buy a Minnie Mouse Costume:
I have always purchased my fancy dress costumes on-line and my fave places are Amazon, Buy Costumes and Costume Kingdom who have a huge range of fancy dress costumes, you will always see me recommend them on my blog on the Minnie Mouse Costume and I do this because I think they are great. Another excellent website to look is Amazon as they also have a large selection of fancy dress costumes.
Shoppers from The USA
Minnie Mouse Costumes
Amazon have a massive range of Minnie mouse costumes, in both adult and child sizes.
Shoppers from The UK
Minnie Mouse Costume
Like their American cousins, Amazon.co.uk have a huge selection of Minnie Mouse Costumes in all sizes and all at really good prices and so you should be able to find what you are looking for.
