Where can I find cast costumes for Mary Poppins?

Everyone loves the children’s classic story of Mary Poppins, the eccentric nanny who appears by magic to look after Jane and Michael Banks.

The children have the time of their lives embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her cockney friend Bert.

At Admiral we have a superb collection of Edwardian era costumes suitable for your production in all sizes from child to adult.

Mary Poppins the main character has a wonderful skirt and jacket with the customary tie on boater hat with flowers and ribbons. She changes into a long lace dress with red waist clincher and straw boater for the ‘Jolly Holiday’ number.

Bert is a chimney sweep, wearing tweed trousers, scruffy jacket and cap, changing into white trousers and striped boating jacket for Jolly Holiday.

We have an excellent Mr Banks in his smart suit and bowler hat for working at the bank, his banking colleagues in their tailcoats and Mrs Banks in elegant Edwardian attire with hat, gloves and parasol.

Jane and Michael are dressed as Edwardian children; Jane with her knee length dress and over pinny and John in short tweed trousers and a wool pullover.

We have maids, Miss Corry the owner of  a magical talking shop in bright striped skirt, bodice, cape and bonnet, and a rather severe costumes for Mr Bank’s Nanny.

For the chorus our waistcoats and neckties are brilliant for your chimney sweeps, skirts, shawls, jackets and capes for your townsfolk and kite fliers, and of course skirt, apron and shawl for the raggedy old bird woman.

Mary Poppins is a fabulous show for schools, with wonderful songs and great costumes to bring it all to life. The individual characters from the story make them an excellent choice for book days and fancy dress.

We are delighted that Beachborough school chose us to costume their recent production which was a resounding success and we thank them for the wonderful pictures below.

For more information on our costumes for shows like Mary Poppins, please give us a call on 01908 372504 or visit our website www.admiralcostumes.co.uk.  We are happy to supply full casts or individuals.

Fancy Dress for children

At Admiral we have some truly fabulous fancy dress outfits for children for hire at very reasonable rates.

We can supply whole groups of costumes for schools, youth drama and am dram and are also happy to kit out individuals – whatever their size!

We have all the characters from your favourite school plays; Oliver, Bugsy Malone, Wind inthe Willows, Guys and Dolls, Mary Poppins and Grease. Costumes that we have provided recently are Mr Bumble, Nelson, Horatio Hornblower, Nancy, Eliza Doolittle, Maria Von Trapp and Rolfe, to name just a few.

We also have excellent Victorian costumes, Viking outfits, Roman costumes and Shakespeare style for those educational days that catch you out in the school calendar.

All our hire costumes are excellent quality and can be altered to fit if necessary. The outfit comes complete, with authentic hat, gloves, petticoat and other accessories if required for an all-inclusive price of just £20.00.

If you need a costume for your child for book day, historical day or a school production, then do give us a call as we have an enormous collection of gorgeous children’s costumes to choose from.

Give us a call on 01908 372504 and chat to our staff who have knowledge and experience in costuming all eras and can help you select a perfect outfit for your child.

We also make bespoke costumes, so we can run up a waistcoat or frock coat for your child – no problem and costumes can be posted to you anywhere in the UK

Visit www.admiralcostumes.co.uk – we love to help

Fancy Dress to buy in Buckinghamshire

A truly magnificent range of Fancy Dress costumes are available for you to purchase on-line from Admiral Costumes.

Choose from a massive selection of outfits for adults and children in sizes small to XL. Fantastic hats and accessories to complement the outfits can also be ordered for you from our on-line shop. 

We post costumes to you as soon as we can to any address in the UK and to most places in the world.

Items ordered on line are usually in store for the next day and if you require multiple items for groups or shows, then do give us a call to arrange colour matching and sizing – we love to help.

If any of the items that you have chosen are out of stock then we always let you know and offer an alternative if possible.

With plenty of free parking at our store, customers in nearby Milton Keynes, Aylesbury, Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable and surrounding areas can purchase items securely on line and arrange to collect from our Little Horwood store at their convenience, avoiding carriage and packing charges.

A superb selection of fancy dress costumes and accessories can be browsed on our website http://www.admiralcostumes.co.uk/?page_id=1350

From adult and child costumes, through to wigs, masks, face-paint and accessories, there is a great selection to choose from.

Call us now on 01908 372504

Fancy Dress – Admiral Costumes your giant dressing up box in Milton Keynes

Where would you go to get a fancy dress costume comprising of yellow tights, green shirt, breeches, pixie shoes, jerkin and leather apron?

That’s just what we’ve been asked for this week to costume a child for a school production of Beauty and the Beast.

Who would you call if you needed a 1920s outfit for a baroness in icy colours?

That’s just what we have provided for a murder mystery event with very specific character references.

We have a fantastic collection of all kinds of clothing items and combinations suitable for school productions, amateur dramatics, murder-mystery parties or for personal events.

Here at Admiral Costumes we are just like a giant dressing-up box, with a massive stock of all kinds of costume items including coloured tights, waistcoats, bow ties, hats, gloves, headdresses, belts and jewellery accessories in all colours, styles and sizes ready for you to hire.

If we don’t have what you require then we will either source it or make it for you at very reasonable rates.  

Items we have made recently include: striped waistcoats, polka dot 1950’s dress, tie, 2 matching chinese tunics, Elizabethan dress, a child’s sheep outfit and a 1940’s style suit.

Give us a call if you have a costume challenge on 01908 372504, we love to help.

www.admiralcostumes.co.uk

30 Nuns stuck in a snowdrift

What a week! The inclement weather has affected us all (including nuns) and created some truly bizarre circumstances.

Obviously our shipments went a bit haywire resulting in 30 nuns (costumes) being delayed en route back to us from Sister Act, but now we have been re-united, laundered and are safely out on the road again for The Sound of Music.

Our Oom PahPah skirts and dresses for Oliver finally reached their destination in Thanet, having spent the best part of the week on the M20 in Kent. Sadly this show had to be cancelled last weekend, but hopefully will be on again after Easter.

Then there was a school production of Guys and Dolls who had to postpone their production, but we were happy to let them keep the costumes for an extra week – so looking forward to seeing some pictures of this one.

Whilst Officer Crabtree and Michelle got stranded up north, John Proctor and Reverend Hale (from The Crucible) got separated from their ensemble in the depths of Cambridge – they are re-united now, after all the show must go on!

Beauty and the Beast and Gaston and his girls bravely carried on at Shenley Brook End, with only one performance being delayed. A superb production by all accounts and enjoyed by everyone.

Clint Eastwood bravely battled the elements and the road blocks to return his costume – so thank you.

It was with relief that Mary Poppins was able to collect the show costumes for her cast and with everything back to normal now weather wise, we look forward to Jesus Christ Superstar and The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui going to plan next week.

Do call us on 01908 372504 to chat about your show – we love to help.