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  • 1920s themed fancy dress
  • molgrips
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    Well not fancy dress as such, but a themed wedding I’m going to.

    I was thinking of a normal suit with a waistcoat, then a trilby hat. Anyone else had any particular success with this challenge?

    Since I get a free pair of glasses every year from Specsavers with my contact lens subscription, I’m also rather tempted to get a pair of vintage looking round glasses just for the occasion 🙂

    zilog6128
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    just don’t lose the bowler hat!

    I’m not sure a modern suit would look particularly 1920s.

    You could try a DJ with high winged shirt collar?

    Don’t forget to grow a really impressive moustache.

    perchypanther
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    Unfortunately, Captain America was more of a 1940’s thing otherwise you’d have been all set.

    fasthaggis
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    😀 ^^

    RustySpanner
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    ’20’s were a bit boring for blokes, tbh, post war austerity and all that.

    Short back and sides, Brylcream, nice suit with narrowish lapels, single breasted for the UK, pegged or flat front narrow trousers, waistcoat and a fob watch, good all leather shoes.

    Have some pictures of my dad as a young blade in the 20’s – tank top, cotton shirt, slightly wider trews, brouge type shoes.

    Boaters a bit old fashioned, flat cap ftw.

    My neice is really into this kind of thing.

    Much more fun if you go 1890’s to 1910’s.
    Just pretend you’re going as someone really unfashionable.

    stumpy01
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    Bugsy Malone-esque outfit; gangster outfit with obligatory splat gun.

    Drac
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    Dress like a hipster. Sorted.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Fourth post for a Captain America reference. Not bad. Not great, but not bad.

    Brylcream

    Lol. Not really going to work for me… 🙂

    I realise a modern suit won’t be quite the same, but near as dammit. I’m not going to shell out hundreds on real vintage clothes I’ll never wear again.

    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    tempted to get a pair of vintage looking round glasses just for the occasion

    Try living in some!

    perchypanther
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    Fourth post for a Captain America reference

    Yeah, Sorry, I was making a cuppa. I’ll try to be quicker next time. 😉

    mogrim
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    Go full Peaky Blinders, and hide razor blades in your cap.

    wwaswas
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    Push the boat out and go full Great Gatsby.

    Straw hat, striped blazer, chinos, two tone brogues.

    or a flapper dress.

    TurnerGuy
    Free Member

    Wear a flapper dress ?

    or a swimming costume, I did this the other xmas party with a boater and a rolled up towel and a fake moustache:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/1920s-Beach-Hunk-Gentleman-Bather/dp/B008X2W4UQ/ref=pd_bxgy_21_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=34T44S51HEHBW9HQCE70

    All available on Amazon, search for 1920s fancy dress.

    binners
    Full Member

    Forget Captain America, and think Italian. Go as a Blackshirt, complete with chest full of medals

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    or a swimming costume

    To a wedding?

    molgrips
    Free Member

    It’s not a fancy dress party, it’s a themed wedding.

    binners
    Full Member

    To a wedding?

    I think if you have a ‘themed’ wedding, you probably deserve everything you get, even if that includes Molls is a swimsuit

    wwaswas
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    Molls is a swimsuit

    A Gangsters Moll would be better.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    I think if you have a ‘themed’ wedding, you probably deserve everything you get, even if that includes Molls is a swimsuit

    It’s a bit annoying and I normally hate such things, but they are a lovely couple, so I’ll play along, I’ll enter into the spirit of things and I’m flattered they invited us 🙂

    blurty
    Full Member

    Dinner suit, slicked down hair, topped off with an old life jacket (Titanic vibe)

    5thElefant
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    Nazi party was founded in 1920. Tache, goose stepping, endless opportunities to get into character. It’s the obvious choice.

    bearnecessities
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    bikebouy
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    Go “full Belgian” FTW..

    eemy
    Free Member

    Al Jolson – 1927 the Jazz Singer. Suit and tie, white gloves, blacked up face. Classic.

    curtisthecat
    Free Member

    Full KKK uniform? They were popular in the ’20s

    shermer75
    Free Member

    I was thinking of a normal suit with a waistcoat, then a trilby hat

    I’m loving Godless on Netflix right now, Ed Logan is such a bad ass

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    You could try a DJ with high winged shirt collar?

    Diddy David Hamilton?

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