High School Musical was first released in 2006 as a Disney made for TV movie but it didn’t take long to capture the imagination of every child in the world. High School Musical clothes wasn’t something you would have seen a lot of that first year but after the release of the second movie most high street retailers stocked everyone’s favorite Troy or Gabriella outfit.

With High School Musical 3 the merchandise has stepped things up and now you can find High School Musical clothes for almost everyone in the movie.

These outfits are a great way to dress up for Halloween but they are also popular presents for Christmas and wonderful outfits for girls to wear to parties. Boys to can wear High School Musical clothes to parties but with the casual gym look of shorts and vest or track suit these would be more suited to everyday wear. Not to be left out there are plenty of everyday clothes for the girls as well.

With Christmas getting closer and High School Musical 3 being released at the end October 2008 it won’t be long before the mad shopping occurs for High School Musical clothes. We have a wardrobe full of these and other Disney theme clothes and I’m not really sure where we will be putting them, but I am sure that High School Musical clothes will be on the Christmas list this year again.

So what wonderful High School Musical fashion can we look forward to this year? First on the list for us at least will be High School Musical pyjamas and/or dressing gowns, never really a favourite choice with Skye but always handy to mix practical purchases with up to the minute fashion. Throw in some High School Musical underwear and that’s the practical purchases almost over for Christmas. For Skye however there will no doubt be at least some type of denim skirt on the list, well I hope its denim and not the cheerleaders skirt again. We will most likely see some jeans on the list as well and lots of different t-shirts with different characters on each one. Don’t forget the shoes and handbags as well all with matching logos!

The problem I have with High School Musical clothes is that the clothes they wear in the movies is far more tasteful than the clothes they sell to the kids, but my wife just says I’m over thinking it.

Other than the High School Musical clothes there will be the accessories to work out and the board games and the console games and anything else with a High School Musical logo on it. Luckily we have avoided the Nintendo Wii so far, so we won’t have to buy the dance game being released around the same time as the movie. Well at least we won’t have to buy it as long as we don’t have the Wii but that is a discussion that is dodged at least once a day at the moment.

Like everything that is popular with children around Christmas there will be the High School Musical clothes copies and rip off’s. To avoid copies we stay clear of anything that comes from Asia, that’s not to say they are all copies from this part of the world but the chances of them not being original are higher. We normally buy our kids stuff off EBay or from the local super market as shopping in stores like Toys-R-Us or the Disney store can sometimes work out expensive for items such as the High School Musical clothes.

The secret to avoid being ripped off is to start early doing the price comparisons and have a plan of were you want to look. For us here in Manchester, our house is in between 2 massive superstores; Asda and Tesco, so that’s our first port of call while doing the grocery shopping. Before we get there though we check out what is available on EBay as this is a wonderful window into what is out in the market place. Sometimes you will find a great bargain there as well.
The Plot

So how does it all come about that we parents have fork out for this stuff each year? Well what started as a Disney Channel TV movie in 2006 quickly became very popular the young kids and soon erupted into an international craze. The plot has been described as a modern day Romeo & Juliet with Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) playing the lovelorn couple. The story goes these two are from opposite groups but are pulled together when they audition for the lead parts in the High School Musical. Despite intervention from their friends who try everything to split them up they inevitably fall in love and become inseparable.

High School Musical 2 was released in 2007 and obtained more followers than before as Troy and Gabriella continued their relationship, this time working at a golf country club for the summer. Despite the efforts of Sharpey (Ashley Tisdale) to split the two up again they still manage to stay together. This is pretty much the same theme again for High School Musical 3 but this time the threat to Troy and Gabriela is the graduation and moving into the real world and out of High School.
The End

I hope I have given you some idea what High School Musical is all about and what sort of High School Musical clothes you can expect to be shopping for this Christmas but be warned its not only Christmas this stuff is popular for. Just recently we were invited to a High School Musical themed party were they had plates, cups, balloons, napkins and the like. So we were in a room full of kids wearing High School Musical clothes eating of High School Musical party packs and looking at High School Streams and posters and balloons. Where will this all end? Usually at the shops or on EBay.

Getting to look like your favorite character from High School Musical can be as easy as heading to your closet or you could buy a full High School Musical Clothes outfit from the store.

To be like athletic Troy all you would need is a white track suit with red strips down the side, then add an E logo to the breast pocket area of the top and there you have a very easy High School Musical costume. More complicated would be the Troy gym kit outfit. You would need to get a red sports vest and matching shorts then get a wildcat’s logo created in felt to Iron on to the top. With both these outfits all that would be missing is a basketball and a pair of sneakers. The basket ball should be similar to a beach ball, who wants to carry a ball about ALL night.

Beautiful Gabriella would be made by combining a shiny red vest with a velvet skirt and some red shoes. The true designer among you should actually combine these two items to make a dress for Gabriella but for Halloween we really want to be making easy High School Musical clothes.

Sharpay is the glitzy one in the group and to make here outfit would take a lot of sewing and adding. Putting together a Sharpey costume is not for the faint hearted among us and is probably best left for parties.

For a general High School Musical costume you could always make the cheerleaders outfit. Just look for an ordinary red and white cheerleaders outfit, preferably in a shiny material, and add EHS to the chest of the outfit.

There you have it simple yet easy High School Musical clothes for Halloween.