If you and your partner are looking for Fancy Dress Couples Costumes and you need a little inspiration, look no further than some of the most famous couples of both the past and present. There are many great examples of popular character costumes available. Nothing more fun that to transform into a favourite character for halloween! These days there are so many to choose from. Maybe you don’t want to buy, just make your own outfit and just get some ideas from the pictures. Hopefully these pages will give you some inspiration. Good luck with finding what you are looking for. Latest movies like Avatar Fancy Dress will be sought after this year, or Iron Man 2 Fancy Dress. Maybe something more traditional like Napoleon and Josephine or Batman and Batgirl. Halloween or any other party we are going to needs a bit of planning to have everything ready.

Start planning a bit sooner than you think if making your own outfit. There always seems to be a last minute problem that makes us run late, have trouble reaching the deadline for putting the clothing all together. Sometimes, to make life easier, if you don’t have time or the desire to sew, to buy may be the best option. Onto a few themes. The Gladiator costumes are always popular. There are named amongst our favourites like Robin Hood and Maid Marian, or Egyptian Couples Costumes or Roman Outfits. They have been around for centuries and we love them! It is usually these costumes which are so stylish. Some of the modern costumes like the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland is also bound to be a hit this year. Good ol’ Johnny!

I think Napoleon would have approved of this outfit. Definitely fit for a queen!This outfit is beautifully finished  with great attention paid to detail, a very impressive costume indeed. The Josephine costume has a long rich crimson gown with slightly puffed white satin sleeves. The gold detail and accents of embroidery certainly add a touch of class. There is a pretty delicate gold choker with red beads and a brooch. Each fancy dress costume comes in a strong quality garment bag to make for good keeping in future use. There are many Historical Fancy Dress Costumes available … Now onto Napoleon himself! His outfit is made to perfection.Again magnificently finished attention to style and detail. It is going to make you both stand out in a crowd! It has a rich bright blue crushed velvet waist coat.  Again in matching, a crimson red velvet inset and cuffs, gold accents with also trim accent. Elastic around the waist pants make for flexible size and comfort, and have a front zip and button, and a vest picking up the gold colour in the gold color buttons. A white stylish collar and black velvet traditional napoleon hat with trimming.This outfit also comes with a quality garment bag for safe keeping.

Well Jack Sparrow and the awesome movie Pirates for the Carribean certainly made Pirate Couples Fancy Dress popular! They were already so, but a movie just seems to get everyones juices flowing again! Funny thing is we actually take a liking to the characters – doesn’t seem to matter that they are pirates or not! So if you and your partner are interested in this theme, there are heaps of choices available to either get ideas or make your own. If you want to buy online, take a look at Captain Jack Sparrow’s fancy dress ostume! Ho Ho Ho and a bottle of rum!! It has a traditional pirate brown jacket, pirate shirt, a brightly coloured blue vest,  belt with buckle which really adds to the look, striped fabric sash, two belts with attached buckles for the authentic “cluttered” look, brown matching pants, boot covers, bandana plus pirate hat which comes with attached beaded braids. These accessories make the outfit fabulous….Now to complete the couples look, you need a costume for your girlfriend of wife! There is many different choices – short sexy dresses, long dress, long pants, shorts etc. The one pictured here is a little bit classy. Lots of different ideas available though. The picture shows a quality and sassy costume in the long pants. It also includes a gold trimmed embossed vinyl corset style vest, pretty puffed blouse, sexy fitting pants,  boot tops that have the gold trim, and the must have bandana and hat. What an awesome fancy dress couples look! …

From pirates to Gangster Fancy Dress Couples, everyone needs one or two of these to lurk around for protection! The range is so vast these days that it is worth your while taking a closer look at all the different types. There are short dresses, long dresses, pant suits and everywhere in between. Roaring 20s Outfits match really well.

Following Aussie Russell Crowe’s good performance in the Robin Hood movie recently, couples costumes in this theme are popular this year. Most of us just love the Robin Hood Costume because of the history, attitude and the whole Nottingham story, and enjoy dressing up as him and with Maid Marion at his side. Awesome look I have to say!

This couple outfit duo is a really good one for those attached to this wonderful story, so if a fan like some many for years, you may like this ensemble. The outfit is complete including the cape, shirt, belt, boot covers and gauntlets. You only need to add some older style dark trouser pants from home. All sizes available too!

Now what about the Maid Marion Costume I hear you ask! Well she was probably one of the first damsels to be in distress. I am sure good looks and a good feisty nature also probably had something to do with it!

This fancy dress costume comes in a few different designs. Some short, some long and more tradition. the choice is yours and depending on your partners outfit.  this outfit pictured has a rich forest green skirt with a very detailed decorative belt. The beautiful and detailed leather look top with a featured unique slashed sleeve gives the outfit a difference to most others. The jeweled simple but elegant headpiece finishes the costume off to perfection. Great to know it comes in varied sizes and has it’s own garment bag for long safe keeping and storage.

So there is plenty of ideas to get you thinking. If you like sewing and want to have a go at making your own costume clothes, eHow offers so really good ideas and directions for this. They usually provide excellent information. When searching for a fabric shop to buy from, if your local store hasn’t got what you are after, again shopping online may be easier for you.

The Iron Man2 movie and Avatar movie are bound to be popular this year. These both look awesome together side by side. Double the effect, double trouble and double the fun! To get some more ideas you can look at pictures online. This starts giving you further info on what you like and don’t like. With Halloween getting closer, the more scary or bizarre fancy dress costumes are often the most popular. Vampires, superheroes, and ghosts  are traditional couples favourites. There will always be a fascination and enjoyment about us being able to dress up in a coulples outfit that is wild and wonderful. I think it’s wonderful the extent some people will go to have fun. When I recently heard in the U.K. news of a couple getting married in their Superman fancy dress outfits, hard not to say, how cool and unique it that? Her bridesmaids all came in their favourite fancy dress costumes too! If you are going to have a couples costume party at your place, again go online and get some helpful tips to make it a huge success. You can go for a real funny theme, or maybe a hollywood theme. These days there are some really weird and whacky costumes.  You could even do a dress up couples game online. There is so much to offer. Have Fun!