Flapper & Gangsters

Why be dowdy and dress down for your next fancy dress party when you could consider one of our 30 last minute ideas instead. One of which involves hitting the glam end of the spectrum as a flapper girl and gangster unique couple. That way you and your better half get to show off your best sides wearing a glittering, fringed dress (her) and a natty pin striped mob suit (him). Then again, it might be more fun if the fancy dress roles were reversed? No doubt about it, the 1920s were a party city time for dressing up. Men from the mob were sharp dressers, hitting the town's best bars wearing a fedora and braces with their suit, as well as immaculate leather footwear. Women reduced the length of their skirts and dresses to just above the knee and enjoyed swinging a long string of fancy dress trending pearls. When they weren't dancing the Charleston and other contemporary numbers at parties they were smoking in public with the use of a long, elegant cigarette holder. The mob ruled the streets, but the Charleston girls made the dance floor - and fashion - their own.