Tag: Dance school group costumes

Playing card print dance costume with Elizabethan Tudor style neck ruff

A Winning Team

June 27, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Here at Dance Festival Costumes, we are getting so many great news stories from our clients about the dance competition costumes we have made for them and their dance competition success that we were losing track of all our groups who have achieved 1st places !!!!! We have costumed all sizes, some of our groups have included 4yrs up to ladies size 18+ . We can costume character ballet, song and dance, modern, jazz, tap, cabaret , lyrical, you name […]

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Genie from Aladdin song and dance costume

Genie from Aladdin character song and dance costume with harem pants

June 13, 2018 by helenmsmith914

We made this lovely song and dance,dance festival costume a few months ago for a customer whose daughter was performing a song and dance number as the genie from Aladdin. As with all of our costumes it needed to look fabulous but also allow complete freedom of movement -so as not to get in the way of the dancing! We made this as a leotard and harem pants with a gold turban too! Sparkly gold bits and all sewn together […]

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Cute Vintage Pjs for a song and dance solo and more medal success!!!!

May 17, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Here are some lovely vintage style PJs we made here at Dance Festival Costumes for a customer recently for a festival solo song and dance routine to “me and my teddy bear” (here is a link to the index page for song and dance and character costumes we have custom made) . Before we even got a chance to post up pictures we heard the great news that this little dancer got a medal on her first time out with […]

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matador custom made dance acro costume customer photo

Matador bull-fighter acro dance costume-had to share this one!

May 11, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Well, busy times at Dance Festival Costumes this week but we had to break off to show you some photos of one of our latest custom made and characterful creations (one of our all time favourites!!!!), a custom made to measure matador dance costume for an acro routine. Click here to go to our website page with lots more photos .This is made from top quality stretch velvet and lycra fabrics as well as stretch trim. It has amazing detail on […]

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Just you wait Henry Higgins

May 4, 2018 by helenmsmith914

We seem to have been too busy at Dance Festival Costumes to post some of our latest creations on our website, here is one of our recent song and dance costumes (link to index page for some of our character and song and dance costumes) which we made some weeks ago now. This was created for an Eliza Doolittle song and dance festival solo to “Just you wait Henry Higgins…”. This dress was made to measure and was made with a […]

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Moana character song and dance costume-customer photo

April 8, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Here is a photo of our client’s daughter looking absolutely lovely in her Dance Festival Costumes custom made Moana song and dance costume (thank you to this dancer’s mum for sending us this great photo) . We loved making this and our client was thrilled with it, all made from stretch lycra, including fringeing and different trims and shell buttons, a great fit with built in stretch to allow complete freedom of movement and room to grow. Here is the […]

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dorothy iconic blue and white gingham pinafore dress

Dorothy character song and dance costume by Dance Festival Costumes

April 7, 2018 by helenmsmith914

We all remember the iconic blue and white Gingham dress worn by Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and here is one we made recently for a client, here at Dance Festival Costumes. We make lots of character and song and dance costumes , here is the index page with lots of examples of our work. This costume was made to look just like the one in the film though we made shorter puff sleeves. It has been made with […]

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Snoopy the Musical dance costume Charlie brown

Another 1st place for Dance Festival Costumes Customer!!!!!!!!

March 10, 2018 by helenmsmith914

We love to hear how our customers get on with their costumes and we love to see the end result. We were delighted to hear earlier this week that one of our dance school group clients had achieve a 1st place with 88 marks at Eastbourne Music & Arts festival recently with their new routine. They all look absolutely lovely in their costumes and so neat, tidy and smiley!! We made these lovely yellow with black zig zag Charlie Brown […]

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Custom made catsuits for dance competitions

February 25, 2018 by helenmsmith914

We are getting a lot of queries at Dance Festival Costumes about our custom made catsuits and we can still take orders for Easter competitions but please note Easter is early this year only 4 school weeks left. Our catsuits can be designed with a particular character in mind or can incorporate a theme , mood or music. We can use plain lycra, printed , lace or foiled fabrics to give sparkle on stage. We create a custom pattern so […]

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All you need is love-more competition success!!

February 20, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Great news about one of our custom made dance school clients, even more competition success, securing a third place medal with their quartet performing to “all you need is love”. Thank you to your dance teacher for sending us this lovely photo and congratulations to you all from Dance Festival Costumes . Here is a link to the page with more photos and details about these costumes and please get in touch if you would like to discuss having a […]

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Charlie brown dance costumes consisting of yellow skirted leotard with black zig zag around the middle

It’s Charlie Brown – one of our latest Dance School Group costumes

February 6, 2018 by helenmsmith914

We seem to have been too busy to post on our Dance Festival Costumes website lately! here is a lovely set of costumes we sent out last month for a dance School group performing a new number with a Snoopy/Peanuts theme and based on the Charlie Brown character. Here is a link to the Charlie Brown costumes page with more details and photos of these costumes. We make lots of group costumes for dance school groups and troupes and our […]

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A Little Princess character ballet solo costume

Custom made Dance Costumes

January 23, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Here at Dance Festival Costumes, we have a great many loyal customers and so giving you a quick heads up now, we always try to prioritise existing customers so if you need a costume (or a group costume) before Easter please get in touch ASAP. It is always so much easier for parents and performers if you have your costume in plenty of time so you can have a dress rehearsal wearing it . Happy to discuss ideas without obligation, have a […]

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Custom made dance costume …simple as ABC…

January 12, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Here is a lovely little costume Dance Festival Costumes made for a client recently. Her daughter needed a costume for her song and dance number ” Rhythm in my nursery rhymes!” . We were asked to make a costume that looked like a school uniform with braces, a collar and a plaid skirt and with ABC appliqued on. And here it is,. please get in touch if you would like a custom made dance costume

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: character dance costumes for dance festivals, Costumes for dance festivals, Custom made character costume, dance festival costumes, Dance school group costumes, girls modern solo costume, tap solo costume

Custom made dance costume -Nightmare before Christmas revisited…

January 6, 2018 by helenmsmith914

Here are some photos of a dancer looking absolutely amazing, wearing her Dance Festival Costumes custom made Jack the Pumpkin King dance costume. This was definitely one of our most challenging commissions so far and we love these photos!! Thank you to the dancer’s mum for sending these through and we wish your daughter lots of luck in 2018 with her Jack the Pumpkin King character piece (link to page with more photos and info here). We make solos, duets, […]

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Paddington bear inspired dresses, dance school group costume

Your team costumes, great designs, beautifully made and delivered on time……

January 2, 2018 by helenmsmith914

And that;s just what Dance Festival Costumes‘ customer say! We are back in the workshop from tomorrow and working with dance schools all over the UK, USA and Australia, check out the page on our website featuring group dance costumes we have made for dance school teams competing in dance festivals and competitions. We have worked over the last few (almost four years now!) to create bespoke and unusual costumes that fit the theme and choreography perfectly . Our customers […]

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Happy Christmas to all our customers

December 20, 2017 by helenmsmith914

Wishing all Dance Festival Costumes customers a very Happy Christmas. Please note that February half term starts Saturday February 11th which means we will have very little time to get custom made orders out in good time for February half term dance festivals (5 weeks!!!!) unless you book in and we start discussing details very soon. This has been another great year for Dance Festival Costumes. We have costumed more soloists and groups than ever before, completed commissions from all over the UK as well […]

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More fantastic results, 1st, 2nd and 3rd places for one of our dance school clients

November 25, 2017 by helenmsmith914

We were thrilled to hear that another of our dance school clients has had more amazing results with their dance competition teams. Unbelievably they got a 1st place with their Paddington routine, 2nd place for their Little Dutch Girl song and dance and a 3rd place for their “Be our Guest” song and dance, what a result!!!!! Congratulations from Dance Festival Costumes on your amazing performance you must have sung and danced beautifully 🙂 We have so enjoyed hearing about the […]

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custom made dance school contemporary group costumes

Another 1st place for Dance Festival Costumes customer

November 21, 2017 by helenmsmith914

One of our latest dance school clients wanted a set of contemporary dresses for her dance school competition team. The routine was to be an Alvin Ailey inspired contemporary dance routine. This was the third set of costumes we created for this new dance school client and we were thrilled to learn that on their first time out with this new routine they were awarded a 1st place for this contemporary routine (to go with their first place for their […]

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1st place for “A Little Princess” classical character dance school group

October 28, 2017 by helenmsmith914

Great news for one of our clients, first time out with their new group number “A Little Princess” this half term, and they won 1st place. Congratulations to you all !!! and thank you to your dance teacher who sent us this lovely photo. We were working on these costumes for a long time , sourcing materials, developing a prototype and then making them all as well as matching hair bows. This look inspired by the green school uniform worn […]

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Florence Nightingale ballet character solo costume by Dance Festival Costumes

1st place for Florence Nightingale character ballet solo

October 21, 2017 by helenmsmith914

We just featured one of Dance Festival Costumes‘ latest costumes , a Florence Nightingale character solo costume and here are some photos of this dancer looking absolutely lovely in her costume (beautifully accessorised by mum! to whom credit must also go for these lovely photos!). Amazingly, this dancer won 1st place on her first outing with this new solo so passing on our congratulations to you, well done! We all know its the dancing that matters and the costume is […]

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Florence Nightingale character ballet solo costume

October 21, 2017 by helenmsmith914

Thought we would share some photos of one of Dance Festival Costumes’ recent creations a custom made costume for a Florence Nightingale character ballet solo (more pictures on the page dedicated to this costume) . We made a navy dress with white lace collar, button detail and Florence Nightingale style black ribbon detail at the neck. We made special cuffs to help create the look of a nurse during the Crimean war and also a really full white apron with long ties […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: character dance costumes for dance festivals, Costumes for dance festivals, Custom made character costume, custom made character dance costume, custom made dance festival costumes, custom made song and dance costume, Dance school group costumes, florence nightingale character costume, historic figure character costume

Oh my! Jack the Pumpkin King -Nightmare before Christmas character solo

October 9, 2017 by helenmsmith914

You will not believe the trouble we had here at Dance Festival Costumes getting this one right, fortunately our lovely client booked in very early and was patient, which meant we had time to experiment! Our client’s daughter needed a custom made character solo costume for a “Jack the Pumpkin King” character solo. I have included a photo below of the dancer looking absolutely amazing in her costume (thank you to the dancer’s mum for sending us this photo and […]

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Jailhouse Rock group competition team dance costume

New Dance School Group – Jailhouse Rock

October 4, 2017 by helenmsmith914

We recently completed an order for a dance school performing to “Jailhouse Rock”. These costumes were made for a dance school festival competition team and they made their first appearance last week and sending them Congratulations for achieving a second place on their first outing with this new number !!!!!! We make lots of costumes for dance school groups, here is a link to the page (it does need re-organising but you will see lots of examples of our work and customer reviews) and […]

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Costumes for Dance School Groups and solos (can take a few more bookings for October half term)

September 21, 2017 by helenmsmith914

We cannot share any of the dance school festival and competition group costumes that we are currently working on as we always wait until they have had their first public appearance. Here are some examples of group costumes we have made over the last year or two and if you would like your dance school to look at our website , please feel free to share this post with them . We can only provide dance school group and troupe […]

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Black and white striped Jailhouse Rock dance costume

Special Offer Jailhouse Rock Black and white striped dance costume

September 16, 2017 by helenmsmith914

A special offer for people who follow our Facebook page, due to a group order of Jailhouse Rock dance costumes and the fact we will be ordering enough fabric to get a wholesale price we can offer up to 8 of these lovely costumes at a special one off price, made to measure from £75 plus p&p each each (4-8yrs and for 8-14yrs £82.50). Here is a link to measurement table for guidance though you will be asked to send me […]

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Custom made dance school group Dutch national style

Dance School Clients love our costumes….

September 13, 2017 by helenmsmith914

From Jailhouse Rock to Little Dutch Girls and from Playing cards to cops and robbers, we have got dance school group costumes covered. We make anything from solos and duets up to large groups of 30 and more. We can come up with a design for you, provide you with a timeline working backwards from when you need your costumes and provide you with a detailed quote. We are turning a lot of customers away unfortunately at the moment […]

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Introducing our Super Cute Dutch style Dance School Group

June 10, 2016 by helenmsmith914

We were asked to make some Dutch themed dance school group costumes for a dance festival and here is what we came up with. Super Cute National style Dutch costumes including Dutch winged bonnet for the girls and a boys costume of trousers waistcoat and neckerchief in matching fabrics. Check out the appliqued tulips, loads more photos on the page with full details of these costumes (click here) . They were performing this routine for the first time at May half […]

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Dutch girl and boy group song and dance 1st place at dance festival

Super Cute Dutch style Dance School Group

June 10, 2016 by helenmsmith914

Lost boys-Neverland Lyrical Group-2nd place -congratulations!!

Lost Boys-Neverland-Latest Dance School group costumes by Dance Festival Costumes

May 6, 2016 by helenmsmith914

This dance school were doing a group lyrical dance with a “Lost Boys” from Neverland theme so something less floaty and with a bit more “attitude” was wanted. Please note we are very busy/booked up but may be able to take one more Dance School group for June. All of our clients have come back to us this year (yay!!) and we have more new clients too which is great news but we would urge you to get in touch as […]

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