More than 100,000 grown adults dressing up in outrageous costumes, underwear auctions and fancy dress pets? Well, it can only be Florida’s Fantasy Fest of course.
They say Americans do things bigger than most, and that is certainly the case when it comes to this most flamboyant of fancy dress parties which takes over the island of Key West for the last week of October every year. The population of the island swells to more than three times its usual size during the festivities which have grown into a 10-day extravaganza, raising huge sums of money for AIDS charities in the meantime.