Adult Fab 50s Costume Adult Fab 1950s Fancy Dress Costume This great rock n roll fancy dress costume includes a black and white polka dot fifties dress with an attached jacket and sequin belt. The red attached jacket also has a poodle motif on the right hand side. Sizes for this costume are: Standard: Dress Size 10 – 12 The must have accessory for this 1950s fancy dress costume are the Jewelled Rock N’ Roll Fifties Style Sunglasses. If you want to stand out from the crowd, we w... Read Full Story

Grease is a 1978 film about life and love in a high school in the fifties, staring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It is of course famous for its great musical numbers, but perhaps equally remembered for the fashion of the day, in particular the T-Birds and Pink Ladies costumes. The film is a very popular choice for fancy dress as it seems to sum up 50’s fancy dress perfectly, whether it be the greasers style of the T-Birds or Pink Ladies fancy dress, or the preppies style of San... Read Full Story

Elvis Aaron Presley, commonly known as Elvis, began his career in the fifties and went on to be one of the biggest rock stars of all time. It is no surprise then that Elvis Fancy Dress Costumes are one of the most popular male outfits at fancy dress parties. Adult Licensed Elvis Costume Adult Licensed Elvis Costume Our recommended choice for Elvis fancy dress is this licensed costume, which includes a white shirt with sequins that is worn as a pullover, matching flared trousers, a cape and... Read Full Story

When we think of a woman of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ it is likely that we are picturing a 1920’s flapper. Flappers emerged on the scene about 1926 and the fashion embraced all the modern styles of the day. A flapper normally had short hair, a shorter than average dress that exposed her limbs, was heavily made up and smoked with a long cigarette holder. She was the epitome of a young girl who danced the nights away during the Jazz Age. No wonder flapper fancy dress is so po... Read Full Story

A gangster, or mobster, is someone who is a member of a criminal organisation, usually associated with American prohibition during the 1920’s, as well as infamous individuals such as Al Capone. Gangsters have been romanticized in popular culture, especially in films such as Bugsy Malone. So it is little wonder that gangster fancy dress is so popular nowadays at fancy dress parties. The word “mobster” is a term derived from the Latin word “mob” meaning “cro... Read Full Story

A moll, or a gun moll as they were more commonly known back in the twenties, was a female companion of a male professional criminal, or gangster. The “Gun” was not derived from the firearm that they may or may not have carried with them, but instead from the Yiddish word meaning “Thief”.  Meanwhile, “Moll” derives from Molly, used as a slang term for a prostitute, since the 17th century. Despite the negative implications of being a “thief prostitute&... Read Full Story