We have recently had the pleasure of adding Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men fancy dress costumes to our fancy dress range. When doing some research on these loveable chaps prior to adding these fancy dress outfits to the website I stumbled across some interesting facts that I thought I’d share with you….

Everyone who knows anything about Bill and Ben will be familiar with their terms “flobbalob” and “flobbadob”. Well it turns out that this isn’t what they were saying at all. Apparently on a closer listen to this flower pot men dialect they were actually saying “loblob” which translates into “lovely” and “flobberpop” which translates into flowerpot, fascinating stuff hey?

Hilda Brabban was the writer of three later Bill and Ben stories. She would base her plots on the antics of her two brothers in their home in Yorkshire. It is said that Hilda sold her rights to her stories to the BBC for three guineas – a bargain if you ask me!

It was a pleasure to see Bill and Ben re-launched a few years ago after gracing our television sets for the first time some fifty years prior. I doubt they’ll be forgotten in a hurry, especially now with this new fancy dress range. So if you’re off to a fancy dress party dressed in Bill and Ben fancy dress costumes, keep a few of these facts under your hat to impress the other party goers.