Create Your Own ABBA Costumes
Costumes are popular with all ages. Small kids like to go trick-or-treating dressed up as favorite characters and animals. Teens and adults often enjoy going to costume parties. For those who are going as a group, it can be quite fun to dress as members of a band. One of the best ideas for a group is to wear ABBA costumes. It is much easier to obtain Swedish band ABBA costumes than it may seem.
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.
There are many specialty shops and seamstresses that are willing to make ABBA costumes for you and your friends. If you have money but are low on time, this is the best way to go to find ABBA costumes for you and your group.
If you know how to create and follow patterns and sew, then you just need some ABBA type patterns and the type of material they would have worn. You need to measure the people in your group to ensure the costumes will be a good fit and not be too tight or loose. If nobody in your group knows anything about dressmaking, you might want to check out some stores. Buying completely new items is usually not the best way to come up with your ABBA costume.
It is always a great idea to go thrift shopping at the Goodwill or any second hand store. This will save you money and time. These stores usually provide old style clothing that is perfect for ABBA costumes. You can find many different types of clothing at a thrift store. All you have to do is buy, wash, and wear. The clothes offered at thrift shops are usually very cheap, that way, if you need to make adjustments, you never feel bad about ruining a highly expensive piece of clothing. Cut away and make your ABBA costume your own.
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.
If your hair does not match your costume, you can always buy a wig or you can save money and do your hair up and dye it with temporary dye that washes out. ABBA costumes are all natural hair colors, so finding a wig or dye to fit the costume is really easy. If you really want to make your ABBA costumes look authentic, get your hair styled that way that ABBA did. Keep your ABBA costume cheap and go to hair school or have a friend who knows how to do hair do it for you.
The most difficult part of completing an ABBA costume is finding the platform shoes that you need. Before you wear the costume, even months back, stop at shoe stores whenever you can and try to find the platform shoes that fit the costume. Just remember, making your ABBA costumes should be fun, not frustrating. Go out and disco to “Waterloo” and “The Winner Takes It All.
