Costume Party Themes_Underground Stations

There are a few easy options when it comes to creating costumes to match Underground Station names, e.g. Angel, Blackfriars and Canary Wharf (for Tweety Pie fans). For others, a well-known character can represent the station - Sherlock Holmes can represent Baker Street; Shakespeare, Stratford; Napoleon, Wellington (or even Abba) for Waterloo and Queen Victoria for her namesake terminus and Tube interchange. For the most part, however it is down to some lateral thinking and creativity: Here are a few of our suggestions:

For Warren Street, some kind of Rabbit costume, perhaps a Bunny Girl or the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.
Oxford Circus you can choose from a selection of clown costumes and team this with an academic gown and mortar board.
Greenwich Just wear a green witch costume (see it is easier than you probably first thought!)
Barking can obviously use a dog costume, but if you want something a little more 'mad', you could use a strait-jacket or Hannibal Lector outfit!

For this theme, couples are a little difficult to cater for - perhaps a male in a James Bond tuxedo (Bond Street) could be teamed with a gold-painted girl (as in 'Goldfinger') in a green outfit (Golders Green - although she could also be green in a gold outfit!). Staying with the green option, a green face and/or body-paint can also give you Turnham Green, Greenwich North (Wicked Witch of the North from the Wizard of Oz, with a few icicles round the hat!) and Parsons Green (for the latter you can also have a vicar wearing a 'golf-tee' novelty hat).
I did have a great suggestion from one of my readers who said a good couple combination would be Barbie & Ken (costumes are available to purchase) and you would go as Barbican! You really need to think 'outside the box!'

For those of a sporting frame of mind, there's Wembley and Arsenal for footballers, the Oval for cricketers and anyone for tennis at Wimbledon?

What about a Shakespeare style costume for Stratford?

Some stations may require props as well as costumes:-

Canada Water - A Canadian Mountie with a watering can.

Shepherd's Bush - A Shepherd costume with crook and either a bushy beard or small plant.

Elephant and Castle - A person in an elephant costume (Grey or Pink!) could carry a Rook chess piece, but some sort of castellated head-dress might be more effective.

Tree costumes may not be the best idea if your venue is a little cramped, but if you've the opportunity to branch out (or you can even just find a tree mask), such an outfit can give you the basis of Kings Oak (Tree costume plus crown) or Gospel Oak (Tree plus (large) vicar's dog-collar or one of those colourful gowns worn by gospel choirs!)

Males are notoriously reluctant to dress up, but most would probably be prepared to wear a pilot's outfit (Airline or Air Ace) and this costume can represent either Heathrow or Hanger Lane (for females, the Stewardess is an alternate option here). For any others who don't want to go for the fully costumed look, just a wig may be sufficient - a rasta/dreadlock wig can work for Brixton, a beehive for High Barnet and a schoolgirl's boater and pigtails (or school cap for males) gives you Grange Hill.

If you're organising a London Underground party yourself, you might find it an idea to divide the network into sections and allocate different segments to different invitees - this will avoid everyone taking the easy 'Angel' option!


Put a cross with this costume and you have Kings Cross!


We can also offer a few themed food suggestions:
Tufnell Pork balls; Surrey Quiche and East (or West) Ham sandwiches at the buffet with Angel cake, Notting Hill Gate-aux, Swiss Cottage Roll or Victoria Sponge for dessert.