Disco dance costumes have always been a popular and a great choice for fancy dress costumes, as they cover several decades and styles. This leaves you lots of choice and freedom to create a costume, and you won’t end up in the same costume as someone else.
Often disco dance costumes are based on 70’s disco, especially because of the popularity of films like Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta. Images from this film are well known and often the basis for disco costumes. It is the perfect film for guys to base a disco dance costume on as they can wear a flared white suit with a black shirt, just like John Travolta wore.
You can buy ready-made John Travolta costumes and there are plenty of white 70’s disco suits available to buy. Don’t forget to add a 70’s style wig to complete the costume.
Other costumes for men include brightly coloured 70’s style suits and shirts with big collars, over-sized afro wigs, pimp costumes and Austin Powers costumes. Accessorise with big medallions and round colourful shades.
For ladies there are loads of fabulous disco dance costumes, from 70’s style mini dresses or flares, to 80’s disco chick ra-ra skirts and leg warmers. 1970’s style disco costumes are probably the most popular as you can wear psychedelic colours, platform boots and some really great 70’s flick wigs.
Abba costumes are always perfect for disco costumes as you can go as a “dancing queen” and there are lots of complete Abba outfits available to buy.
Alternatively Austin Powers is another good theme and you can get a stunning official Foxxy Cleopatra Austin Powers 70s Costume. This consists of a bright orange leather look crop top with a metal ring in the centre of the bust, with a matching cropped long sleeve jacket and orange faux leather, flared trousers. It is perfect worn with a big afro wig and you’ll look really amazing.
Other disco dance costumes include a 70’s disco dolly costume, consisting of a brightly coloured sequin mini dress with matching headband, worn with white knee-length platform boots. Accessorise with a wig and some false eyelashes or colourful heart-shaped shades.
Disco costumes also require lots of glitter on your body and sparkly make-up, with shiny lip-gloss, and false eyelashes, whatever era disco you are going for.
The choice of disco dance costumes is really endless, but they are relatively easy to put together as you can be as imaginative and creative as you like. You can either base a costume on a character from a film or just choose a decade and create a costume from that era. There are lots of fantastic disco dance costumes available to buy or you can make your own and accessorise with wigs and make-up.