1950s Fancy Dress Costume

1950s Fancy Dress Outfits, Including Happy Days Costumes

Wearing a 1950s fancy dress costume means you get the chance to wear clothing that’s so much fun - it can almost make you feel like you’re starring in your very own episode of Happy Days! 
 
For a guy to achieve that preppie American teenager look, means a relatively easy style of 50s costume.  Just wear your jeans rolled up at the bottom, a nicely ironed, bowling style shirt and a cardigan-sweater with the large initial of your high school on it.  Part your hair severely to one side and you’re set..... hello Richie Cunningham!
 
And for you girls to match Richie, Potsie or Ralph’s 1950s fancy dress costume, you could wear the same high school cardigan-sweater; or instead maybe change it to a cute little cardy draped round your shoulders and done up only at the neck.  Essential though, is the full skirt and petticoats underneath.   Pop your hair in a ponytail, carry some books under your arm and you’re ready to meet friends and grab a Malt at the milk bar.
 
To hot up your 1950s fancy dress costume, just a smidge - change the bobby socks for stilettos, lose the cardy and wear a sexy scarf round your neck instead.  Great, now you’re ready to let your hair down and meet Richie for a date at the Sock Hop…or better still, for a ‘make-out’ session in the car at the drive-in movie.
On your way home you get to stop off at Arnolds – the local Diner where anyone in a 1950s fancy dress costume should hang out.  Don’t forget to stick a nickel in the juke box for some of that new Rockin’ and Rollin’ music that your mum and dad just don’t understand.
And if you shorten your skirt length (by a lot!) and add some roller skates you’ve change your 50s outfit into a gorgeous flirty Diner Girl costume.  Would you like fries with that?
 
But if the nerdiness of the Cunningham’s is not your style then maybe your 1950’s fancy dress costume needs to be more in line with ‘The Fonz’ - who’s real name is actually Arthur Fonzarelli (only Mrs C. can get away with calling him that).  Fonzie, the too-cool-for-school local tough guy, had slicked back hair, wore a leather jacket and rode a motorcycle.  His idol was James Dean and by a mere click of his fingers, the ‘chicks’ would come running – it doesn’t get much cooler than that “Ayyyyeee”
 
As opposed to us mere mortals who have to wear 1950s fancy dress costumes to our friends theme parties and do it the hard way!  Interesting to note, the actor who played Fonzie, Henry Winkler, in real life was actually terrified of motorbikes.  One could then conclude it ironic that it was Fonzie who initiated the phrase instructing the nerdy Potsie to “sit on it”.

Our Fabulous 1950s Fancy Dress Costumes, Dress Up in you Favourite Happy Days Outfit & Rock & Roll all Night Long

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