Cheshire Cat Costume

The Cheshire cat is a character known from Alice in Wonderland, and it is basically a pink striped cat that is grinning broadly. The origin of the phrase “grinning like a Cheshire cat” is uncertain but it certainly became well known because of Alice in Wonderland and the illustrations of a Cheshire cat from the book. A Cheshire cat costume is easy to make and as long as it represents a cat in some way and is pink you can be as creative as you like. Lewis Carroll’s imagination ran wild so any Alice in Wonderland costume can be as fantastical as you like.

A Cheshire cat costume is a great costume for adults or children, for any theme party, but particularly for an Alice in Wonderland theme fancy dress party or a Halloween party. You can actually buy ready-made Cheshire cat costumes, varying in style and price. They are available from most good fancy dress costume shops or online stores.

You can get men’s Cheshire cat costumes that basically consist of pink and purple striped jumpsuit with a tail, furry mitts, shoe covers and a headpiece. You then need to make sure you keep smiling or paint a grin and some whiskers on your face with some face paints.

You can get some really cute kid’s Cheshire cat costumes, for babies, toddlers, children and teenagers. The baby and toddler costumes look particularly cute and mostly consist of a pink and lilac striped jumpsuit and a tail, with matching mittens, booties and headpiece with ears. You can get a separate nose and whiskers to wear, or again use some face paints to paint on a kitty nose, some whiskers and a big grin.

The women’s Cheshire cat costumes available to buy vary quite widely in how cheeky they are. Some have very short skirts worn with matching pink and purple striped hold ups for a sexy Cheshire kitten look. Others feature a longer length dress with stripy tights and a tail, ears or a headpiece. It is up to you what shoes you wear with a Cheshire cat costume and how much you choose to accessorise.

A Cheshire cat costume can even be relatively easy to make yourself, as you can buy stripy tights or hold ups from many sock and tight shops, you can easily get cat ears on a head-band or make some using an Alice band and stick on some cut out ears, and then wear a pink, or preferably a stripy pink and purple, dress.

Whichever style you choose you will look totally funky and have loads of fun in a Cheshire cat costume.

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