Get yourself or your love one into a 20s Flapper Child Costume this year!

With Halloween right around the corner, the mad dash to find the perfect costume this year is on. Everyone; kids (toddlers, Infants), teens, and adults (and the younger children, of course!) are looking for something unique and special and memorable among a collection of movie stars and other overly used themes. How can we forget the Star Wars costume craze? Or the Star Trek? And what about all the Disney movies?

Fortunately there are many alternatives as long as we look to historical themes for ideas. One time period that offers very unique outfits is the roaring 20s, and what would be more individual than a Flapper outfit for the girls and women in your life?

Available in a variety of sizes (extra small and extra large plus sizes), these Flapper clothes outfits can be found in second shops for a cheap price for those looking to personalize their own look, but many costume shops and outlets offer these outfits as well. A fun shopping spree can easily find shops offering discounted prices. But remember, you here is where you will find the greatest discounts on the best quality of product and our selection at Flapper Outfit.com is more extensive than anywhere else, online or off.

20s Flapper Child Costume

Available in child’s small, medium, and large sizes, the 20s Flapper Child Costume is sure to be a hit!

Made of easy to care for polyester, it only takes a hand washing and line dry to make sure it’s ready for next year’s party. But most likely the girls will want to play dress up year round once they get this outfit. A hot pink sleeveless fringe dress with a matching peacock feather headpiece, all this number needs is a feathered boa and stylish shoes before she’s ready to go out and wow her friends.

Accessories should be easy to get at the local costume shop and a pair of long gloves would look perfect with this outfit, along with a good matching hand bag. A few pieces of costume jewelry and a perhaps some glitter makeup and this costume will be one of the most memorable at any party. And why not go all out and actually have a themed party where all the girls dress up in flamboyant twenties style?

The image of the flapper was in sharp contrast, compared to the norm at the time, the Gibson girl ideal. Everything about the flapper’s style of dress was geared towards ease of movement and to this end everything was trimmed down and lightened. This facilitated doing dances such as the Charleston which would have been more difficult if not impossible in the more cumbersome dresses of the day. In fact it was said that women would park their corsets when they danced. Corsets and pantaloons gave way to a type of underwear called ‘step ins’ a bottom undergarment.

Another image of the time was called ‘garconne’ or ‘little boy’ which was started by Coco Chanel. Women bound their chest with strips of cloth in order to flatten them to look more boyish, while the waists of flapper clothes dropped to the hipline. As that happened, the hemlines of dresses began to rise.

In fact, by the late 1920’s the hemline fell just an inch or so below the knee, giving a hint of the knees above the stockings as she walked. The hair was also affected by the flapper style, much to the shock of the Gibson Girl type. This image of the ideal female had abundant hair, while flappers cut theirs down to a bob, and then later to an even shorter style called the shingle or Eton cut. To complete the look, a cloche, a flat bell shaped cap would be worn. Finally, make up, which was the usual domain of the looser woman, was adopted by the liberally minded flapper, especially rouge, eyeliner, powders, and lipsticks designed to create an effect less natural and more surreal or creative to stir the imagination.

Outfit costumes and relevant fashion accessories (jewelry, purses, belts, wigs, etc.) to re-enact flappers, Gatsby girls, Betty Boop, Charleston dancers, the liberated women of the roaring 20s can all be found right here at Flapper Outfit.com — the number one online source for flapper outfits and much more.

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