We used to receive countless enquiries from people asking if they could make card payments over the phone. Until now we’ve had to deny all requests, instead sending a payment request to an email address. Well now we can finally take payments on the phone using Intuit, our shiny new payment gateway. If you see [...]

It just doesn’t get any easier here at Fancy Dress Queen. It’s been another very busy month and it feels like this is the first time I’ve sat down and realised it. My apologies to the visitors who come here to check out cosplay costume pictures. It’s been a very busy month on the fancy [...]

I’ve received a number of customer complaints over the last few weeks on our eBay store and website demanding to know why we don’t offer free exchanges on our costumes. One buyer even exclaimed that it’s ‘outrageous’ that we wouldn’t send her a costume in a different size when she’d paid to send the other [...]

Seeing as 50′s, 60′s, 70′s and 80′s style clothing and costumes are so popular at the moment we thought it was about time that we offered you all a fabulous range of new rockabilly dresses. We’ve worked hard to get in a few gorgeous designs that we think you’ll all love. If the response and [...]

18 pubs, 18 pints. That statement brings back a few memories. With my years of experience doing the Otley Run pub and bar crawl (some I remember, many I don’t) I’ve picked up a few tips, which I’m going to offer you today. Most of these tips will apply to bar crawls across the country, [...]

A comment on a recent article got me thinking. With my limited convention experience (I generally take pictures of cosplayers at private photoshoots) I’m not in a particularly good position to comment on the best and worst cosplayers to deal with. Those of you who are regulars at conventions held around the world will certainly [...]

If you’re looking to buy fancy dress for a party you have many options for where you can get it from. You could do a quick Google search and look through the countless fancy dress retailers, trawl through the pages of listings on eBay or Amazon, head into a town centre and buy one from [...]

Another tax year is nearly over, which means that the annual Royal Mail postage hike is about to come into force. I visited my local post office today and was given a lovely early Easter present in the form of a 2013 postage price list. After reading through it and a few calls to my [...]

With the release of BioShock Infinite on Tuesday has brought with it a black out on social opportunities for me. None of my friends are answering phone calls, emails or text messages. Instead they’re all glued to the latest release in the BioShock series and, according to the reviews I’ve read, with good reason. Instead [...]

In the interest of full disclosure I asked a friend who purchased a sailor costume from me to write a small review of the outfit. She was heading off on a hen do and the girls were all dressing up in nautically themed fancy dress. I offered a few suggestions and she picked the dress [...]