Fancy Pants Kids Director and Designer, Gretel Meyer Odell is a mother of two and a 20 year veteran of the Canadian live theatre industry. She saw a place in the market for dress-up products that combined theatrical wisdom, childish fun and a mom’s practicality. All Fancy Pants Kids designs are constructed from materials that can either be machine-washed, or wiped clean with a damp cloth. Each design has simple lines and construction and avoids gender-specificity. Meyer Odell uses fun and easy fasteners so that even the littlest kids can don and doff their own costumes with minimal assistance. Best of all, many of the designs can be easily worn by kids of any size – meaning even parents can join in on the fun!
“At Fancy Pants Kids, we are focusing on truly simple designs which let imaginations soar. Rather can creating head-to-toe costumes to visibly transform a child into a specific character we focus on individual pieces. Each piece can be used independently or in combinations to create endless outcomes. Our Dragontail is just a tail – it could be a dinosaur, a lizard, an alien or a reptilian monarch. Our Pointy Ears Headband could be a cat, a bat, a fox, a superhero, a dragon, an Egyptian Royal or any number of other things. What kids come up with never ceases to amaze me. It would be short-sighted to create a design that could only be one thing – where’s the fun in that?”
— Gretel Meyer Odell, Director
