The theme that has been chosen is The London Underground. Your guests have to dress up as one of the stations. It is a play on words and you need to think a bit outside the box! Some stations may be linked to something, Wembley for example is England’s home venue for football, so you could dress up as a footballer. Holloway has a large ladies prison, so you could wear a convict outfit. Hope you get the idea!

Although this page of costume ideas is based on the London Underground, there is no reason why you can’t take it as an idea and work out some what you could do in your local area.

Choosing ‘London Underground Stations’ for a fancy dress party theme is a great idea. Your guests however may not agree with you! They will receive an invitation and particularly, if they are not keen on dressing up, may not turn up at all, or turn up but refuse to wear a costume. Costume parties work best when all, or at least the majority of your guests are dressed up. So what can you do? Well, this information page, will help. We have listed lots of London Underground Stations below and given some costume ideas. You could print this list off or give your guests a link to this page so they can have a look.

There are currently around 250 different stations on the London Underground network – there have been more. At one time, in the 1880s, the ‘Underground’ stretched as far as Windsor (sharing a line with the Great Western Railway) and had 340 stations on the network.

Guests Who Just Don’t Want To Dress Up

No matter how much information you give there will still be a small percentage of people who just do not like dressing up. Fair enough, not everyone is the same. We have given some ideas of props or wigs that can be used for some Underground Stations. Most guests who do not dress up will often regret it once they have arrived as they feel like an outsider. We can’t have that, so It may be worth your while buying a few of these accessories that you can hand out to these guests as they arrive so they do not feel left out.

A beehive wig- High Barnet Monolopy Money – Pinned on to ‘normal’ clothes – Bank

Safety Pins – Pinner

Wings – Angel

Chef’s Hat – Baker Street

Dog Mask – Barking

Tennis racket – Wimbledon

Picture of Vauxhall car – Vauxhall

Bows – Pinned on for Bow

Cricket bat – Oval

Underground Stations – Costume Ideas

Okay, so now let us move on to all of those peole who will dress up and get into the spirit of the whole thing. Some of these require more work than others but hopefully they will give you a starting point.
North Wembley – Football kit

Wembley Central – Football kit

Queens Park – Queen costume with parking sign. You could always use a Freddie Mecury type of costume to make it more difficult to guess

Maida Vale – Maid costume wearing a veil

Paddington – Paddington Bear

Baker Street – Chef or Sherlock Holmes Costume

Oxford Circus – Clown costume wearing a mortar board or Oxford Dictionary. Or wear a headmaster gown, mortar board with a clown’s red nose and/or face paint.

Regent Park – Royal type of costume with a parking sign

Charing Cross – Maid (or Char) costume holding/wearing a cross

Waterloo – Abba Costume or Nelson or Napolean costume

Elephant & Castle – Elephant Costume maybe carrying a picture of a castle

Shepherds Bush – Sherpherd/Nativity costume with a large beard

Holland Park – Dutch costume with a parking sign

Notting Hill Gate -Carnival costume

Royal Oak – Brown trousers, green top, green wig and a crown

Bow Road – Covered with lots of various bows

Queensbury – Queen costume holding some berries

Bond Street – Dinner Suit / Tuxedo

Tottenham Court Road – Football kit with a court wig

St Pauls – Bishop or another religious costume

Kings Cross – Elvis costume with a cross

Cannon Street – Religious Costume

Blackfriars – Black Monk costume – or use a normal brown monk – just pain your face black

Victoria – Queen Victoria / Victorian costume

Sloane Square – Twin set and pearls, ‘la de da’ voice

Barons Court – Baron Costume, court wig

Earls Court – Georgian Costume with a court wig

West Ham – West Ham Football kit

Upton Park – West Ham Football kit

Barking – Dog costume

Hornchurch – Religious Costume with horns

Kingsbury- King (could use Elvis) costume holding some berries

Canary Wharf – Canary Costume or Use Tweety Pie instead!