Costume party is one of the most exciting parties to attend to. Anything goes or the hippie clothes are the most comfortable to wear, and so easy to find. It is simple and inexpensive compared to other fashion style. It is because you don’t have to buy anything new. Your costume is already in your closet. All you have to do is unveil that creativity in you and turn those old items into bright and loud hippie clothes.
You can start with your hair. It must be full, wavy and lengthy. If you don’t have a long hair, use wigs in the color of your choice. In addition to that, tie a string or yarn around your head starting from the forehead. You now have a hippie headband. For a shirt, wear a shirt that flows with long sleeves with bright or earth tones with flowers. You can also embellish your own shirt by painting floral prints or stitching floral patches on it. Another option is to cut flowers and peace signs out of felt and attach them using fabric glue. Tie-dyed shirts and brown fringe vest is a very good match too. Dig around your closet and find a pair of flares or bell-bottom jeans and use puffy paint or fabric paint to add peace signs or hippie phrases. Accessories for hippies is all about love, flowers and peace signs. Wear long necklaces made of beads and shells. You can also consider making a large peace sign out of cardboard, dip into glitter, attach a string and wear it around your neck. For the footwear, you can wear leather sandals or choose to walk barefoot.
Even though hippie clothes are easy to find in your closet, it is still best that you plan ahead of time. Take some time to make your own hippie clothes as costume for parties. And most of all wear your costume with pride and confidence because it is a way of expressing yourself. You can turn your room into the 70′s with some hippie door beads from Mexican Threads as well.
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