Story

In 2009 we met Mr Blue. This is where it all began. Gregor, Fraser and Ali attended an athletics/drinking competition where the theme of the weekend was 'wear one colour'. Our best mate Stew Walker rocked up in a dodgy fetish suit; he couldn’t see much and it didn’t fit well but he was King of the party that night. That was our eureka moment… Inspired by Mr Walker’s dodgy outfit and the reactions it received, we thought that we could develop the idea into an awesome fancy dress costume. We worked for months designing, prototyping and tweaking to get the quality and design just right so you could see out, but no one could see in. Then we ordered some suits - just 6 plain colours to start with. We set up a website for $700 (I know what you’re thinking, “that much!”) and the Morphsuits phenomenon was born.

Armed with some smart ideas and a buoyed with some marketing on Facebook, Morphsuits all of a sudden really began to take off. To such an extent that Gregor, Fraser and Ali decided to leave behind their ‘normal' jobs as they we were tired from working 7 days a week!

In 2011, we started our bid for global domination and began selling Morphsuits across the globe. It turned out that there were loads of crazy people who loved Morphsuits all over the world. This meant we got the chance to design and make loads more awesome costumes: Lederhosen costumes for German carnival, Slenderman for frightening people in North America and the Aussie flag to name but a few. We also started getting seriously into social media and started the Morph Hall of Fame. Then we started girls' costumes - pretty impressive I’m sure you agree?

In 2012, after a few years in the costume industry, we thought that there was an opportunity to build on the success of Morphsuits and expand into the traditional (non spandex) costume market. So we took the big decision to take investment from the British Growth Fund (BGF) to allow us to do even more cool stuff. We trebled the size of the team, moved out of our living room office into an actual office and moved from doing just Morphsuits to non-Spandex costumes too.

This was the year Morphsuits went digital. This was mainly down to meeting a Nasa scientist named Mark Rober. After Mark helped put the Mars Rover on the red planet, he created an amazing Halloween costume which featured some digital trickery to 'blow a hole through his stomach'. After totally owning the Halloween party, he posted the video to YouTube and a couple of million views later, he started his own costume company called Digital Dudz. In 2013, Morphsuits merged with Digital Dudz and began incorporating his digital innovations into our costumes.

2014 was all about the relaunching of the brand and upping our game when it came to creating the most amazing costumes in the world. We started as Morphsuits, we were best known for the word Morph, but as we had grown we started to sell non-spandex costumes, so we changed our name to MorphCostumes: makes sense! To tell people about this we made a kick ass advertising campaign called GetMorph.

2015 was all about building on the successes of 2014! After we rebranded ourselves as MorphCostumes from Morphsuits in 2014, we were determined to become the best and most innovative costume creators on the market too - we did create the Morphsuit after all! We set this goal and aimed to make it happen by expanding our range of traditional costumes. We did this by talking closely with suppliers to select the funniest, scariest, and best costumes from a range of companies to ensure that the MorphCostumes website would be the number one place to go for the world’s best costumes.

It had been a busy and very exciting few years for MorphCostumes! We now had a range of our very own costumes alongside our market leading Morphsuits (which will always have the most special place in our hearts), a brilliant range of officially licensed costumes and we were developing more and more of the most innovative and unique costumes that could be found anywhere in the world! Our Piggyback range of costumes created a brilliant illusion that could fool anyone (especially after a beer or two). Our brilliant website now catered to all tastes, while we had also established ourselves as a huge presence and one of the most fun and trusted costume sellers on Amazon.

So yeah, it's been a pretty wild few years hasn't it? The global pandemic may have had a pretty rubbish effect on partying, but we're pleased to say that not only did we come out the other side in good shape, we're actually stronger than we've ever been. Our talented and lovely design team have helped create more original and unique costumes than ever before, while we were also delighted to sign a deal to sell officially licensed Disney costumes throughout the UK and Europe! These days, we're all super happy to be back in the office (we have a pretty cool office to be fair) and we're all working harder than ever to help you party hard and look fantastic. The world is back and we're all ready to have a damn good time!