Here at Party Britain we loved the story doing the rounds on the internet recently about the American dad who continually gave his son a red face by turning up in a different fancy dress outfit every morning to wave him off on the school bus.

The media have officially named Dale Price – who has more than 170 fancy dress costumes – ‘the world’s most embarrassing dad.’

The idea for the prank began when the joker dad appeared at the foot of the drive way in a wedding dress one morning (the bus stops at outside the family’s house in Utah). Rain, 16, was so embarrassed that he begged his mum Rochelle to warn his dad not to do it again. Dale did the opposite, seeing the threat as a challenge.

So far he’s appeared as Wonder Woman, a mermaid, Bat girl and even sat on a toilet on one occasion with his shorts around his ankles and reading a newspaper.

As to his son’s embarrassment Mr Price wasn’t far off the mark when he commented: “I hope this stays with Rain for the rest of his life.”

Anyone ever played a fancy dress trick on you? Tell the Party Britain team about it and we may even feature it on our blog – if you can stand the embarrassment, that is.