Fourty Four - Create Your Own ABBA Costumes

By Nathan Daniels


Dressing up is popular no matter what age you are. Children love to go trick-or-treating and dressing up as their favorite character or animal. Teenagers and adults wear costumes to costume parties. Many who go as a group find it a great and creative idea to dress as a band, each friend dressing up as a different member. One of the best ideas for a group to dress up as is ABBA. Wearing ABBA costumes it fun, and it is very easy to find ABBA costumes than it may sound.

Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, then male vocal half of the group are a great idea if there is just two guys. Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad are a rockin' girl couple pairing if you are unable to have four people in your group.

Of course, there are always going to be specialty shops and seamstresses and tailors that will offer to sew the ABBA costumes. This is an option for those who have the money and do not have the time to make or prepare one.

However, what is even more rewarding is making your own ABBA costumes. If you are good at making patterns, following patterns, and sewing, then all that is needed are some patterns for the types of clothes ABBA wears or wore and some material that matches their outfits. The measurement of the person who is going to be wearing the costume being made is also needed so that it actually fits and is not made too big or too small. Some people are not so good at sewing or following patterns. Surprisingly, ABBA costumes can easily be thrown together from things found in stores as well. There is no need to buy completely new objects. In fact, that is usually one of the worst ways to come up with a unique ABBA costume.

Thrift shopping at stores such as Goodwill will keep your costs down. Many different things can be found there. Old styles of clothing are often found that can be used for costumes. Many times ABBA costumes can easily be put together from just finding the clothes, buying, washing, and wearing them together. It is a great thing when this happens.This is not always the case. The great part about thrift shopping is that the clothes are cheap. There is no guilt in actually making adjustments to them or actually cutting them to make them look like completely new items.

The plain clothes that are worn are very easy to imitate. Sometimes things such as vests and headbands need to be made. The harder costumes are the shiny ones. However, often times there are 70s clothing or disco costume items at thrift shops. It is important to look in different areas rather than just the normal clothing to find what can be made into new clothes. It is also important to look at children's and baby clothes because these things can often be cut and made into new items such as headbands and wrist bands. The colors found there are often the ones that are needed. If not, these things can be dyed or drawn on to make what is needed.

Of course, if hair does not match, it is important to decide if a wig is going to be worn or if the hair is going to be dyed. Being that ABBA costumes use natural hair color, both wigs and dyes are quite easy to find. For those that really want to make it look authentic, getting hair styled like ABBA is a great step. In order to keep the ABBA costume cheap, going to a hair school is a great idea if that can be done.

The platform shoes might be the most difficult part of your ABBA costume. You should start your search for ABBA style platform shoes months before the event, if you have that much time to plan. Once you have your ABBA costumes ready, you will definitely have fun and draw lots of admiring glances at the party!




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