For all those who are constantly chased by the fashion police (also know as your friends) you can now have your revenge!!! Are you someone who is seemingly always one season behind in fashion (or several years behind the trends as the case maybe)? Then this is the 21st Birthday party made for you. Everyone has to dress up as tastelessly as possible and not fashionably tasteless either. The type of clothing that should be burned on site. The twinge factor is high. It's blindingly dreadful to the point of being bad for your health.

  • Alcohol

Make up cocktails that look absolutely dreadful in kitschy plastic cups but still taste good (you'll have to experiment before hand). Have a competition who can make the most bad taste (yet tasteful) drink and give out cheap tacky prizes from the $2 store like plastic bling! One person who had this party stored all their cold drinks in a toilet bowl (never before used)! Think outside the box!

  • Non-alcoholic

Make different spiders from bright coloured ice cream like mint, banana and peppermint. Stick little umbrellas in it and pretend it's alcoholic!

  • Food

Food that looks dreadful but tastes good like earthquake cake (which naturally breaks a part when baked), green jelly with licorice floating on top or crackers with sliced eggs on top of an avocado dip. Think ugly but delicious. Add strange colours to the mix like egg plant which is a bright purple and weird shapes like zucchinis.

  • Where

This one works well at your own place but you can hire a hall or room to avoid having to clean up. Put up old Christmas decorations mixed with stuff from Halloween. Wrap all the furniture in old sheets and cling wrap all the cushions. Have tacky gnomes sitting on the table as centre pieces and posters from the 80's.

  • Dress Code

And now for the fun part. Dress as badly as possible. Check out 2nd hand clothing stores for things that are out of fashion for a reason (bridesmaid dresses are fantastic for this especially if they're in colours like apricot! You're in luck if there is two so you and a friend can dress the same.) Wear clashing colours, eye shadow all the way to your eyebrows, torn stockings, have guys show their hairy chests by undoing a few buttons, wear heavy cheap gold chains and put water balloons in your bras to make them sag (you don't have to be female to do this either). Look downright frightful!

This party is to insure that no one can upstage you on your night of nights (and if they do, it's not for the better.) Make sure you take plenty of pictures to use as black mail and have a competition for worst dressed! Have fun and be as tasteless as possible!

If you're interested in more party ideas, I recommend this book for those who want something a little different. Cheers!