Why Do Some People Love Fancy Dress? There was, for a time, a publication called Weldon's Fancy Dress Catalogue. It presented costume designs for women, men, and in a separate edition, children's designs. Active in the 1920s and 30s Fancy dress, 1877 France, La Mode Illustree, Elizabethan, Revolutionary, ? The Dreamstress Little Miss Electricity whipped out this Victorian fancy dress costume based on a single paragraph from the Fancy Dresses Described (1887) and some fashion plates from the era. much fun was