Your Costume Ideas
Fashion in the 1920’s
A Dinner to Die For is set in 1928 and each guest is allocated a character they can opt to play. We find most guests choose to create and wear costume to fit their character as it adds the fun of the evening but it is not a requirement.
The following is provided to help you and your guests when creating your costumes for the evening. It is only intended as a guide and just for fun, feel free to be as creative as you choose .
Ladies
Waists went lower, skirts revealing more leg, the traditional ‘flapper’ dress epitomises the era. Brassieres came ‘in’ but were designed to flatten the bust. Hair was worn short sometimes with ‘spit’ curls. The make up of the period was for bright lip-stick often with bow lips, pale complexions, dark heavily made up eyes and colourful nail varnish.
ACCESSORIES might include small purse bags, Art Deco or Egyptian style jewellery, feather boas, ornate supper shoes, opera coats, tassels, turbans, cigarette holders and cases and gloves (full length gloves were only worn with long dresses).
Gentlemen
Menswear was still predominantly very formal. Dinner suits and jackets (usually black, white or velvet), tails, bow ties,with wing collar shirts, cravats, cummer bunds and gloves would usually have been worn. The hair was often worn ‘slicked’ down with short ‘pencil’ moustaches. Some more fashionable men later in the twenties began adopting brighter ties, lighter suits, softer hats, wider trousers (the Oxford Bag) and even suede shoes.
ACCESSORIES might include canes or folded umbrellas, cigarette cases, watches on chains, monocles and scarves.
