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70s Fancy Dress for Halloween Parties

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Selecting a 70s Fancy dress outfit and unique clothes to wear to costume parties can be a tremendous headache. Halloween parties have become extremely popular. A person must know what to wear to such parties to bring a certain swagger while being charming to ladies at the same time. So take a few hours to do proper planning before going out to buy an outfit.

When making a grand entry into the ballroom it is always well worth the effort spent finding the best outfit.
For a tall and elegant man with dark hair, vampire stories and movies come to mind. The Vampire Halloween outfit is always showy and elegant and in a class of its own. We don’t need to show blood. Remember Dracula was a charmer. Few other costumes can compete with a long and elegant black coat. It usually comes with a collar that sticks out behind the head. Perfect for our purposes. It has a red velvet waistcoat that contrasts well with black, well cut trousers. In fact, you can get the waistcoat and the cape separately to wear with a black designer suit that you may already have in your wardrobe.
You will find the latest designs here : www.partygetup.co.uk

Red velvet is a must for the waistcoat, which has two rows of golden buttons on the bodice. The stand-up collar is superb because it adds a some punch to the outfit and avoids dullness. Most suitable for a Halloween Party. Most vampires were dark haired, handsome and elegant people, who were sure of what they wanted : blood. Get long white fangs that stick out on both sides of the mouth. A wig and well trimmed moustache accessorizes the outfit nicely. Count Dracula stuff is quite outstanding so try a long sleeve white shirt with the Vampire Medallion hanging on the chest. The final touch could be some fabulous black to complete our dapper Dracula.

70s Fancy Dress Costumes from the Cowboy Movies

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Fancy dress parties continue to attract the attention and form the themes for most parties today. In the 70s Movies, the cinema halls were full of avid movie goers who enjoyed watching Wild West adventures. They had characters with gun toting cowboys on horses as they trotted their way into the wilderness looking for the enemy camp. Those who frequented the movies found them enthralling by the toughness of the characters. Movies made the cowboys almost untouchable because they were sharp shooters with smoking gun barrels. Having these outfits from the 70s Movie characters is a good idea for a fancy dress occasions or costume parties.

The Wandering Gunman is an original idea for a 70s Fancy Dress costume party seeking to be a little different. It is an ensemble of the old style gunman with a gun holder or a wide belt with a holster. This straps neatly to the waist. The 70s Wild West movies always had the starring role with a stern face, one hand on the gun holster, ready to fire at the first sign of trouble. The trousers are jeans, either faded or blue. Then there are leather boots with a familiar metal grip on the back of the heels. The look is completed with a brown poncho of leather or woollen knit that has a cute pattern, but usually has tassels. Inside the poncho is the suede or sheep skin leather jacket.

The shirt is full sleeve and has a neck scarf for wiping sweat from brows, since the Wild West is a hot desert climate. Exactly who has the guts to challenge this guy. He strides into the ballroom ready to fight and has already subdued the enemy in his own mind. This style should be worn with a faint smile, a wide rim hat and a cowboy pistol in the holster.

How to set up a 70s nostalgia party

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

You loved the 70s because of the memories of great times past. So now you are thinking about having a party on the theme to invite all your friends to.
Here are some things you could do to make your party really sparkle.

popstar costumes How to set up a 70s nostalgia party
Lets start with the music
Nothing sets up an atmosphere more than the music of the decade. So start accumulating tracks and organise them in some order to make them representative of the music of the time. Be sure to include disco, Motown and and top rock songs.
The variety is what makes this work.

A great place to research tracks is itunes. Napster do deals where you can stream all the tracks you like for one price.

Party decorations

If you recall, lava lamps were the fad. Plus the big glitter balls. Remember the dance floor with John Travolta ?
Decorate your walls with 70s posters – easy to find online and great scene setters.

For party favors include key chains, bottle caps and rings pops. Any old fashioned sweet shop online can offer these.
Decorations should include some element of the bright disco colors and perhaps some psychedelic prints.

As for 70s fancy dress costumes they seem to have developed a life of thier own. Every season stlyes are invented. They still retain something of the 70s but are updated in a way to that just makes them look great. You and your guests will have a great time dressing up in costumes designed to capture this flavor.

You could also help guest by offering sites to go to or you might decdide to narrow them down to strictly disco outfuts. For example www.partygetup.co.uk
This would suit your party very well when the music starts.
You will remember white disco pants and shirts with very large collars, and also the afro wig.

There are so many gogo dancing suits that any women just needs to take one look to know what would suit.

Lastly set up a game called “name that tune” (from the 70s of course)
Here you play a short piece of music and get people to name it.
Private nostalgia parties are probably the biggest driver of the music and costumes industry. It has lasted a long time and seems destined to continue.