When you have a car show, however, it is important to do more than just bring in cars. You should have a theme and general idea of how you want the show to run. For example, what type of cars are you wanting to show off?

Antique car shows are perfect for bringing in a 1950s theme. Have your employees wear sock hop costumes and bring in decorations that work with the 1950s theme. Sock hop costumes include poodle skirts, jeans, and ponytails. Sock hop costumes can even include roller skates if you want to incorporate a car hop theme to the show.

Try to incorporate the different cars in the show. Ask the manufacturers if they have any material they would like to give away. Some car manufacturers would love to give away pens, Frisbees, or magnets.

Find other things that you can use to give away to guests. Try to use the different car manufacturers logo on various items around the show. You could choose to give out shirts with your car show event name on it, or even different car logos.

People are there for the cars. Be sure to find ways to show those cars off. If the car show goes during the night be sure to have lights available to show the cars off.

It is also important to have enough people on your staff to answer everyone’s questions and concerns at the show. Be unified so everyone can easily identify your employees. A unified uniform would work well. If you are doing the sock hop theme have everyone dress up in sock hop costumes. If you are staying more modern, keep it simple by having employees wear the same solid colored shirt.

Keep your decorations and themes unified as well. You don’t want your show to look messy. Be sure that everything looks put together so it doesn’t look sloppy.

Music is a good place to start. Decide what type of music you would like to use. Since car hops were very popular in the 50s, you will want to look for music from that time period.

Music will reflect how the activity is going. Music creates the mood. This can make an enormous difference in your event.

Look for music that you like. The 50s held a lot of different styles of music. Choose the style you like best and stick to that style.

For example, softer music started out in the earlier 1950s. Rock and Roll music hit in the middle years. Having a specific year in mind can make your search go smoother.

You could also do a search for popular 50s artists. Bill Halley and the Comets were a popular group back in the day. Other popular choices were Elvis Presley, obviously, and Buddy Holly.

When you have decided on the style you would like, you need to have a good system to play the music on. Buy, or rent, a nice outdoor sound system. The type of system you decide to use will depend on your location. Be sure to test it out before the day of the event to get the kinks out and work on any feedback issues.

Music really is important if you want to really sell a 50’s theme event. Once you have found your music, you can then continue on to find other things to tie the event together. After the music you can move on to find decorations, car hop costumes, food, etc.

Make an antique car show fun by serving good food that deal with a fifties theme. A good choice of food would be hamburgers and fries. You can also serve ice cream sundaes and milkshakes.

A car hop can be a fun way to bring customer’s their food. Servers can bring the food out to people in their car in roller skates and poodle skirts. Have them wear car hop costumes and have fun with the drive-in-car hop theme.

Car hop costumes include sock hop attire. Poodle skirts, white socks, and a ponytail for girls, and blue jeans and a white t-shirt with hair slicked back is a great choice for guys. Add roller skates and you have the perfect car hop costume.

If you are looking for inspiration for car hops you can look for car hop costume videos online or on YouTube. There are also other older television shows or movies that often used car hops. The most popular shows were Happy Days and American Graffiti.

While most television shows and movies showed that waiters and waitresses brought food to the cars mainly in roller skates, that is not always true. A lot of waiters and waitresses did not use roller skates. On the contrary, most car hops worked on foot.

The reason it was called a car hop was because the waiter or waitress had to hop over a car when they noticed a new customer. That signaled to the customer that the hopped car was the waiter or waitress’ car. Tips were placed in the car on the way out.

Car hops are not as popular as they were in the 50s. Now there are only a few original drive-in stands left. Bringing back a car hop for an antique car show can be a great idea, and bring back good memories to the older generation.

To begin you need to find the right undergarment for your dress. Petticoats can really bring extra elegance to a beautiful wedding dresses. They make the dress look its best.

There are different petticoat styles. Decide what type you need first. Do you need a hoop skirt or do you need one with out hoops? I would recommend if you do need a hoop skirt that you wear another undergarment on top of that so the hoops do not show through your wedding dress.

Hoops take a lot of practice to walk in. If you bend over all the hoops bring your dress upright. That is why it is a very good idea to get use to wearing it and how to sit down in it or bend over so you don’t flash all of your guests on your wedding day.

If you would rather not use a hoop skirt another option you have is netting. Netting is a great choice for wedding dresses. It stops your wedding dress from tucking in between your legs while you walk. It’s not very glamorous to walk down the aisle with your dress constantly pulling through your legs.

Be sure that you get the correct size petticoat for your wedding dress. Start by measuring from the hem of your wedding dress to your waist. You want to get as close to the bottom of your dress as you can, within 1 to 2 inches. Be sure the waist fits so you don’t worry about it slipping down lower than the dress.

Family and friends can be a great help when searching for your undergarment. Try on a few different types of pettiskirts so you know which one works best with your dress. Try on different styles and then work from there on how full you want your pettiskirt to be.

Weddings are very memorable. Choose the perfect petticoat to go along with your beautiful wedding dress. A pettiskirt can make your elegant dress even more glamorous.

Hoop Skirt – Hoop skirts are underskirts that have lightweight hoops to add a bell shape to the dress. The hoops are made out of plastic, nylon, or lightweight steel. A century ago hoop skirts were very heavy and hard for women to wear, but with the lightweight material it does not weigh women down anymore.

Hoop skirts are used for large, full, ball gowns. Similar to dresses seen in “Gone With The Wind”, large a-line or ball gowns need underskirts to keep the full shape of their dress. Hoop skirts are usually made out of cotton or polyester. Practice makes perfect with this undergarment, since it can be difficult to move in.

Crinoline – Crinoline is a common word used for undergarment. While manufacturers love to refer to any undergarment as crinoline, crinoline is usually made out of many layers of tulle or netting. It can be made out of flexible hoop wires to add fullness.

Layer hoops are not always needed, or wanted, with crinoline pettiskirts. Depending on how full the dress needs to be there may only be a need for a layered crinoline undergarment. Crinoline is used in wedding attire, but can be used on other style dresses such as the 50’s style dress.

Petticoat – Petticoats can be made out of a lot of different materials, and work with a lot of different dresses. The most popular materials are tulle, cotton, nylon, or netting. Petticoats are flexible in how full they are. There is no set standard for how full or thin they will always be.

Their fullness depends on how full you need the dress to be. Petticoats come in a variety of styles and colors. They are often worn with classic poodle skirts and 50’s dresses. They are a popular choice to wear over hoop skirts so the hoops do not show through the dress.

Slip- A slip is another popular undergarment worn with dresses. A slip, unlike any of the other pettiskirts, is not there to add volume to the dress. It is usually worn to stop dresses from tucking up in between women’s legs while she walks, and to add modesty for sheer dresses.

Dressing up in the 50’s costume style can be really fun for children, mainly little girls.  There were so many styles in the 50’s that make their costumes fun and have variety.  When wondering what did people wear in the 50’s, just think of the popular movie Grease.

Some people might think that there are not many opportunities to wear these fun filled costumes, but there are several.  Older and younger children can wear them at the all-famous Halloween, themed birthday parties, and themed school dances.  Younger children can also wear them year round for dress up or play tea parties.

No matter what style of the 50’s costume is worn, they must have a lot of accessories.  Any 50’s costume style has several accessories to it.  From hats to shoes and everything in between, the 50’s styles loved their accessories.

Thinking just of female accessories the head could have is various hats, bows in the hair, scarves around the neck, cat eyeglasses, and pearl necklaces.  Other accessories are purses of every color and shape, specific shoes, umbrellas, belts, frilly socks, aprons, and sweaters resting on the shoulders.  Not all of these accessories would be worn all at once; each particular style used certain accessories.

One 50’s style is called the housewife.  This style is a dress that has buttons down the torso with crinoline filling out the skirt.  Most often there is a belt separating the torso section from the skirt.  The staple accessories are a pearl necklace and an apron.

The baby doll and campus coed styles are very similar.  Both of these styles consist of a shirt, skirt, slip of crinoline filling the skirt, and black and white shoes.  The differences are minor but important.  The classic baby doll style wears poodle skirts, ruffles on the shirt, sweater resting on the shoulders, and bows in hair that is down and curled out.  The campus coed style wears a plaid skirt, a collared shirt with a sweater over it, and the hair is in a ponytail.

There is also a waitress style.  The waitress dress would be close to the body, but not tight, and the color would be a bright pastel.  The accessories would be an apron, a small simple hat, the hair would be up or cut short, and they would wear shoes or roller blades.

The above-mentioned styles are just a few of the styles that come from the 50’s.  These costumes are classic and fun.  They can be also worn time and again at several activities.

Hosting a tea party can be beneficial for parents as well. Children will be able to practice good table manners during the tea party, and you can even teach them party etiquette such as sending out thank you notes after the party is over. Parents can also sit back and visit with other parents while the younger girls enjoy their party.

When planning a tea party the table is the main focus. Find a pretty tablecloth that fits with the theme of the party. Soft pastel colors work great.

A fun way to invite guests to the tea party is by cutting out teapot shapes and attaching a label in the shape of a tea bag. You can use ribbon or yarn to attach the tea bag label to the teapot cutout. Write the guests name on the tea bag cut out, and put any particulars on the teapot.

Put dressy children’s poodle skirts and other fun party clothes in a box for children to choose from. Online vendors have a lot of party outfits that you can choose from. You can also raid your own closet to find outdated clothes that will work great for tea party costumes.

Once the girls have chosen their outfits have them put them on and pose for photos. Girls can have a lot of fun with this. Be sure to add accessories such as hats and string pearls or high-heeled shoes for the girls.

The tea party menu does not have to be extravagant to still look eloquent. Serve peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crust cut off and quartered. Fill a fancy teapot with “tea” or pink lemonade.

When the girls leave present them with homemade party favors. Fill small white party bags with costume jewelry or toy teacup and saucer and candy. Turn the bag in to a tea bag by folding the edges under and attaching a paper nametag to a piece of string.

1. Make breakfast together. You may need the help of Dad on this one if there aren’t older children around. Let mom take a break and bring her breakfast in bed before she even wakes up.

2. Have a tea party together. Mother and daughter can both wear poodle skirts to dress it up more. Hip Hop offers a variety of children poodle skirts and adult poodle skirts to chose from so you can find one to fit your style.

3. Put on a dance recital. Mothers love to see their girls in action. She could even wear the 50’s children poodle skirt she wore to the tea party as part of her dance costume.

4. Clean up the home. Have your brothers and sisters chip in to help clean up an area of the home. There is nothing a mother loves more than a clean home and not having to get after her kids to do it.

5. Make a fun mothers day craft. The craft does not have to be anything big. Just the act of working together to do something can be a fun activity.

6. Plant a flower in the garden. Mothers love flowers. Buying a flower to plant in the garden can also be useful for the future as well.

7. Write a letter to your mom expressing your love to her. Tell her the wonderful things she has done for you. Moms like feeling appreciated. This will definitely tug at her heartstrings.

50s costumes

French Plait: Girls who love braids will love this style. French plaits or french braid your hair in a style you like. Side french braids are a popular choice, as is braiding your hair and piling hair up on your head.
Bouffant: Large roller curlers are handy with getting this hairstyle right. If you would like to look like Jackie Kennedy make sure to tease your hair and make it big. Once your hair is teased enough smooth the top layer down so that you have a rounded shape or bouffant.
Remember to test out the hairstyles that you feel will work with your 50’s costume a while before the event. It can be hard to perfect these styles on the first try. Practice makes perfect.