Finding great Fifties Costumes ideas…
Dressing up for Halloween is equal parts art, shopping and imagination. Luckily, with all of the costume shops online now, you can browse through thousands and thousands of Halloween costumes for ideas and inspiration without even leaving your house. Coming up with costume ideas are tricky, but there is one route you can go to get really great costumes that are unique, clever and original: period costumes. This year, I am looking at one such period idea in particular. I am looking at fifties costumes.
Fifties costumes offer a wealth of ideas and a variety of costumes for both men and women. When I approach period costumes, I like to start with simply that – what were people wearing in that period of time. Fifties costumes are a particularly fertile ground for modern costumes based on everyday clothing from the 50s.
If you want something else for 50s costumes, there are still plenty of ideas. The most common 50s costumes are, of course, the poodle-skirt for girls and the greaser look for guys. These include the great accessories, like saddle shoes and leather jackets.
Here is a really cool 50s costume idea you may really like: Leg Avenue Women’s Sock Hop Sweetie Costume, Pink/Black, Small/Medium
You can really invest a fair amount of time to elevate the costume to another level and really wow people. These have been popular 50s costumes for decades now, and very few Halloweens go by without seeing a handful of people using these costumes for themselves.
Personally, I like thinking of other choices for 50s costumes: specifically, celebrities. Two of the most popular celebrities happen to be 50s costumes: Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. There are of course other celebrities from the fifties, including James Dean.
However, dressing up like celebrities can be difficult. My favorite idea for 50s costumes is to dress up like characters from famous movies either set in or shot during the 1950′s. This is a great way to go for the period look while still having a lot of fun.
For instance, dressing up as Marlon Brando in On the Riverfront, is a good option instead of the daunting task of dressing up as a Marlon Brando.
Whichever way you might choose to approach 50s costumes, you should be in great shape. The whole part of Halloween is to have fun pretending to be someone else for just a couple of hours, and there is no shortage of great ideas for fifties costumes to help you do precisely that.
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