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50′s Fancy Dress Costumes

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Today we advocate a 1950s fancy dress theme as Don McLean sang in his 1971 song, ‘American Pie’, today is The Day the Music Died as Buddy Holly, Ricky Valens and JP ‘Big Bopper’ Richardson were all tragically killed in a plane crash in Iowa, America in 1959. For some of our readers this probably will not mean much as this happened over 50 years ago, and for many this era has now been consigned to the history books. However, we do still have a lot of customers who choose to dress up as Pop Stars from a bygone age, rather than some of the immediately recognisable pop stars from today, and a standard 1950s fancy dress is still very popular. This can sometimes be a bit of a hit or miss experience as there are certain characteristics, costumes, props or wigs that denote different stars. A Buddy Holly costume is a classic example. The main areas are the fifties haircut, black frame glasses (which also work for Austin Powers), the skinny tie and teddy boy style check jacket. These items can usually be sourced through most fancy dress shops, including props and frocks and is a quick and easy image to create, for the man who does not want to try too hard.