At the Compound, fancy dress wardrobes, silent cinema and disco, and laundry facilities were on offer.
Now they are being sold to everyone from activists to fancy dress enthusiasts.
Hundreds of students are expected to gather on the green for a day of fancy dress, drinking and wrestling.
But in Olympic-themed fancy dress outfits they waved to the crowd and collected donations as they walked the route.
To conquer reserve, fancy dress was worn, often involving men in women's clothing.
Miss Manning, a shop assistant, had been to a 70s fancy dress party and a nightclub with her boyfriend Barri White.
The New Year's Day dip, organised by the Panama Swimming Club at Whitley Bay, regularly attracts a host of people in fancy dress costumes.
Some 40, 000 spectators clad in fancy dress will pack out the Hong Kong Stadium for the three-day annual event, held 23 to 25 March this year.
Zeta Jones will lead the parade through Harvard Square in fancy dress on 10 February, followed by a presentation and a question and answer session with the actress.
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When he boarded a bus in 2007, carrying his hoax device, he was wearing a false beard, moustache and glasses that the driver had thought was fancy dress.
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Shop assistant Miss Manning had been to a fancy dress party and a nightclub with Mr White when she walked off alone in the early hours of 10 December.
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Both, like all reserved seat Derby Tickets, are actually good for two days, and includes Kentucky Oaks Day on Friday, an equally thrilling and equally fancy dress rehearsal for the main event.
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All the people I talk to perched on their tractors, waving their banners - done out in fancy dress that makes one point or another - are looking to their governments for solutions.
This long involved young men trying to catch the eye of women, typically by donning fancy dress (in the cold war a favourite was the garb of Soviet border guards) or through good-natured abduction often in combination.
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Mr White, who was sitting in the public gallery during the evidence, had earlier told the jury he and Ms Manning had gone separate ways after attending a 1970s-themed fancy dress party and a night club in Milton Keynes.
The country is not returning to 1977 and its home-made fancy-dress costumes or Coronation bunting dug out of attics.
The husband of actress Kate Winslet has successfully blocked the Sun newspaper from publishing a set of "embarrassing" photos of him at a fancy-dress party.
When in 1883 Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrayed for a fancy-dress ball as Electric Light, topped off her satin and diamonds with a large incandescent bulb, it subtracted nothing from the elegance of the scheme.
Labour dares not tinker with the City's ancient guilds and their elaborate ceremonies, which offer pinstriped bankers a chance to dress in fancy costumes and dine in grand halls.
There are plenty of fun displays, like the oldest beer keg, an epic painting that graced the festival entrance on the 100th anniversary, and fancy dirndl (traditional women's dress) designs through the ages.
Designed by fashion icon Betsey Johnson, the pink paradise is complete with pink-and-white striped wallpaper, a table set for a fancy tea party and a closet stuffed with dress-up clothes.
Dress nice but do not wear your fancy watch or take a high priced purse.
Robbins had a business analyst client who was talking to a fancy department store chain where he would have had to dress formally every day.
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