Thread: 50s pinup girl costume - input please

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I have decided on a 50s pinup girl costume our Time Warp theme this year. I found this wonderful website with a lot of options. The problem is, I can't decide!

Here are some of my favorites. Please let me know what you think. I want it to be clear what I am. I have a black betty paige style wig.

http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/pol...gle-dress.html

http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/sai...dress-red.html

http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/hel...p-couture.html

http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/mil...hite-navy.html

Aside from the dresses, they also have a lot of cute bathing suits that would work. Not sure I want to show my middle but the high waist style kinda covers that.

http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/the...p-couture.html

http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/sai...p-couture.html

My vote is for (in order of preference) #4, #1, #3, #2. (It is weird how #1 has a skull emblem on the chest.) Perhaps to emphasize that you are from the 40s, you need some sort of button with a WW2 slogan -- like how about this loose lips might sink ships button

http://www.zazzle.com/loose_lips_sin...42154407519994

or maybe this buy war bonds button
http://www.zazzle.com/till_we_meet_a...83901363581954

With the semi navy themed dress #4, I think a well selected button or two like this would work great. Good luck!

(oops....after I wrote this I realized that you said 50s -- but arent pinup girls from the 40s??) Good luck again!!

I think number 1 is the best.

I looked at the shoes again, and I think that the black and white polka-dot would be best with those shoes. Plus, the shoes have a skull charm on them!

OMG!! I WANT EVERY PAIR OF SHOES ON THAT SITE!!

Especially these!!

http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/iro...-platform.html

A lot of the pinup look is the hair & makeup too so make sure to get that part right too.

I would go # 2. The sleeve of tats helps. # 1 is ok & the sailor suits have been done in the present day so they don't hold the pin-up feel that they used to, to me anyway.

# 3 is my vote.

Number one or two would be my ONLY votes, due to the color of your hair - they would look most striking.... and well put together. Not that women with black hair can't wear navy, its just that black hair with either black/white or red/white has this really well balanced contrast that just SNAPS, and becomes something *special*... for like... a Halloween costume

Thanks for the input everyone. Here is the wig I have (Thanks to MHooch!).



This is a pair of shoes I found on amazon & loved. They would only work with dress 1. Turns out the same website sells the shoes too so I'd only need to make one purchase.



I think I'd need a pink flower in my hair to tie it all together. Just not sure if this all comes together into "pin-up model."

I did a little web browsing under the title 50's pin up model, and maybe what you need is not so much a dress but one of the one piece bathing suits with a halter top...can't find a link to one right now, but you probably know what I mean.