1970’s fancy dress costume dress up party!

1970’s costume hire available in Bondi, near Bondi Junction in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.
Here’s a whole list of ideas and inspiration for your perusal, and don’t forget to contact Agent costume to find out what’s available for your party date.
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Scroll past the gallery for more 1970′s fancy dress costume ideas, films, TV shows, designers, musicans, events and phrases.

Some 70’s costumes available at Agent Costume:

Question: What do I wear?
The answer is: which ever style of the seventies which best resonates with you. Read on for ideas to help build the best character for you!

A rather dapper michael Caine

Let’s take a look at some of the styles, movies, TV shows and fashion influences of the Seventies to get a better idea of what you like.

Fashion:
Bellbottom pants, hotpants, platform shoes, leisure suits for men
Disco, Glam rock lurex jumpsuits!
Hippy, Kaftans, Ethnic trends.
Sideburns for men, Afro, Mullet, long with middle part
Vivienne Westwood and Malcom McLaren- fashion designers

Do you want to be glitz and glamour, or would you prefer a more toned down denim or leather casual look? Are you a Studio 54 sequins and satin lycra? or are you more of a hippy, peace signs and wooden beads? Are you more edgy punk? Are you a cowboy from a western film made in the Seventies, or a cowboy from the village people?

1970s safari suit and lego man hair

What are you going to feel comfortable in? What are other people going to be wearing? Would you like to push your boundaries and surprise your work colleagues with your imagination and outrageous daring? or would you prefer to walk the line and simply set the tone in a basic way, not straying too far from your current look?

Genres:
Disco, Glam Rock, Pop, Blaxploitaion, Soul, Hippy, Funk, Progressive Rock, soft rock, Punk Rock

TV shows – made in or referencing the 70’s:
Charlies Angels, The Brady Bunch, The partridge Family, Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Are you being served?, The Bionic woman, Dallas, Diff’rent strokes, Mork and Mindy, Six Million Dollar Man, The Sonny and Cher comedy hour, Fantasy Island, Good Times, Happy Days (although set in the 50’s), Wonder Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Monkey Magic, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Wonderful world of Disney, Kojak, Sanford and Son, The Waltons, All in the Family, Lavern and Shirley, Little House in the Prairie, Porridge, Soul Train, Wonder Woman, The Love Boat

That seventies show, The Wonder years,

1970’s Film references:
One Flew over the Cookoos Nest, Rocky, Jaws, Satuday Night Fever, The Exorcist, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Godfather, King Kong, Star Wars, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, All that Jazz, Blaxploitation – Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Shaft, Xanadu, Star Wars, Austin Powers – Gold Member, The Rocky Horror Picture show, Grease (though it was set in the fifties), The Exorcist, Jaws, Superman, Logan’s Run, Apocalypse Now, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Blazing Saddles (cowboy spoof), Caberet, Dirty Harry, The Wiz – A Motown take on the Wizard of Oz, Rocky, The Godfather, The Jerk, King Kong, The lady in Red, Carrie, Clockwork Orange

1970’s music – in no particular order:
Bee Gees, Blondie, Donna Summer, Jackson Five, Super Tramp, Queen, The Osmonds, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Joan Baez, The Village People, Ziggy Starudst – David Bowie, The Supremes, Simon and Garfunkle, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Olivia Newton John, Suzie Quatro, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, The Doors – Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Elton John, ABBA, The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Gary Glitter, Cat Stevens, Elvis Presley, AC/DC, Sherbet, Dragon, Bob Marley, The Clash, Split Enz, Joy division, Bill Withers,Glam Rock, Punk – The sex pistols and The Clash, Eagles, Led Zeppeln, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, The Who, Bob Marley, Electric Light Orchestra, The Bee Gees, Sonny and Cher, The Doobie Brothers, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, The Carpenters, Boney M, Blondie, Roxy Music, KISS, Alice Cooper, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cat Stephens, Fleetwood Mac, Super Tramp, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The sex pistols
Folk rolk, soft rock, hard rock, punk rock, disco!

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Oh! So dapper!

You’ll be laughing too dressed like this!

Events: Vietnam War ends, first Test tube baby was born, First female Prime Minister of Great Britain- Margaret Thatcher, Mother Theresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, The walkman arrives, Patti Hearst kidnapped, Elvis passes away.

Fads: Mood rings, Lava lamps, Rubic’s cube.
Video games: Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pong

Take a look at Agent Costume’s 1970’s reference board on pinterest:
Agent Costume’s 1970’s references pinterest board

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