Dance Hall

Dance Hall

When's the last time you saw someone dressed as a Saloon Girl at Halloween? Doesn't happen much, does it?

Despite our fascination with the Wild West, and the larger than life characters that sprung from that era, you're more likely to find a gunslinger than a saloon girl at an adult's party. And it's a shame, as a properly executed saloon girl costume can command all the attention the wearer wants.

With their bold colours and lacy edges, Saloon Girl costumes are much like Spanish Dancer costumes and French Maids. Often referred to as Can Can Dancers, or Dance Hall girls, The often short dress (or short in front, long in back) shows off legs amply, and the neckline of these dresses is usually also low. Often, a plumed headpiece completes the outfit. Only show girls and dance hall girls are known for their plumed headpieces, and so you'll not be relegated to the corner with 3 Bellas, 2 Red Queens, and Alice. You will stand out from the crowd.

The great thing about these costumes is the variety. There are dozens of styles available, from ones with short skirts, to more elaborate dresses with underskirts and long trains. You can choose from on the shoulder or off, or add a petticoat for a more frilly skirt. You're not limited to a red and black costume either, there are gold, green, pink, and several other colours, so you're sure to find one that suits your colouring.

Plus size women have an option in saloon girl costumes that is usually not present in other costumes. If you're a plus size woman, dressing as someone out of Avatar might not be possible, but there are plenty of plus size costumes available. Many of these dresses are stretchy in addition to coming in larger sizes, so you're able to find something that will fit well and be comfortable.

Accessorizing this costume is easy too. A plumed headpiece if your dress doesn't come with one, paired with thigh highs and heel is really all you need. If you really want something to hold, look into a fan. Since parties are often hot, you may be glad you picked on up.

Style your hair in curls, or an updo like a French twist with tendrils hanging down to get the dance hall look. If your hair is too short, try curling and fluffing it, or resort to the tried and true standard of spiking it with gel if you favor a very short cut. If you don't want a plumed headpiece, consider a couple silk flowers stuck to a small clip, and dangly earrings to call attention to your face.

Consider a Saloon Girl costume for Halloween, and rest assured that the odds of running into someone with the same costume are slim to none.

Ready to shop for sexy Saloon girl costumes? We have a wide selection of Saloon girl, can can dancer, and dance hall costumes available, as well as the accessories that turn them from great to fantastic.

Dance Hall At Louse Point $6.49 Dance Hall At Louse Point

King Of The Dance Hall $10 King Of The Dance Hall - Beenie Man

In a Danish Dance Hall $39.99 In a Danish Dance Hall - Giclee Print

Dance Hall, 1941 $34.99 Dance Hall, 1941 - Giclee Print

Elegant People in a Dance Hall $39.99 Elegant People in a Dance Hall - Giclee Print

Lesbian Dance Hall Paris $34.99 Minartz Lesbian Dance Hall Paris - Giclee Print

Gruene Dance Hall $29.99 John Gusky Gruene Dance Hall - Photographic Print

Treesje Women's Dance Hall Crossbody $120 Treesje Women's Dance Hall Crossbody

Farmers in the Dance Hall Forming a Dormitory after the Dance $79.99 Farmers in the Dance Hall Forming a Dormitory after the Dance - Premium Photographic Print

Dance Hall Queen $74.99 Dance Hall Queen costume includes dress, chocker, and head piece.

The Dance Hall at Arles, c.1888 $34.99 Vincent van Gogh The Dance Hall at Arles, c.1888 - Giclee Print

The Dance Hall at Arles $34.99 Vincent van Gogh The Dance Hall at Arles - Giclee Print

Dance Hall, Diana Dors, 1950 $19.99 Dance Hall, Diana Dors, 1950 - Premium Poster

Religious Dance Hall of Jasaka Shrine $79.99 Religious Dance Hall of Jasaka Shrine - Premium Photographic Print

The Taxi-Dance Hall $30 First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls. Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction notes, were social centers where men could come and pay to dance with “a bevy of pretty, vivacious, and often mercenary” women. Ten cents per dance was the usual fee, with half the proceeds going to the dancer and the other half to the owner of the taxi-hall. Cressey’s study includes detailed maps of the taxi-dance districts, illuminating interviews with dancers, patrons, and owners, and vivid analyses of local attempts to reform the taxi-dance hall and its attendees. Cressey’s study reveals these halls to be the distinctive urban consequence of tensions between a young, diverse, and economically independent population at odds with the restrictive regulations of Prohibition America. Thick with sexual vice, ethnic clashes, and powerful undercurrents of class, The Taxi-Dance Hall is a landmark example of Chicago sociology, perfect for scholars and history buffs alike.

How You Want It (Dance Hall Remix) $6 How You Want It (Dance Hall Remix) - Teressa Edwards

Interior, Dance Hall, Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, Rhode Island $39.99 Interior, Dance Hall, Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, Rhode Island - Giclee Print

Laborites Swinging Out in an Old Dance Hall $79.99 Laborites Swinging Out in an Old Dance Hall - Premium Photographic Print

Dancing and Dining in a Spanish Popular Dance Hall $39.99 Dancing and Dining in a Spanish Popular Dance Hall - Giclee Print

A Popular Dance Hall in London's East End $39.99 A Popular Dance Hall in London's East End - Giclee Print

Sexy Dance Hall Queen Costume $64.97 Sexy dancer costume includes dress, chocker and head piece. The Sexy Women's Dance Hall Queen Costume is sexy in a classic way. The dress is modeled after the kind worn by women who would get paid to dance with men. Most saloons and dance halls had women like...

'Samba Dance Hall' (Brazil) $522.95 Romance and sensuality exude from the canvas as a couple dances samba in each other's arms. Fernanda Lefevre captures the energy of their movements as they take the floor of the local gafieria. A dance hall specially designed for samba, gafierias were initially opened at the start of the 20th century, when samba was banned in Brazil. Gafierias became a symbol of marginalization, yet they've always inspired fascination and sensuality. Nowadays gafierias are opened to the general public. Titled "Gafieria" in Portuguese.

Dance Hall of the Dead $7.99 Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuni, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the search: an archeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni. Compelling, terrifying, and highly suspenseful, Dance Hall of the Dead never relents from first page til last.

Satan in the Dance Hall $59.99 Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New York City, led by moral reformers and religious leaders like Rev. John Roach Straton. Fed by the firm belief that dancing was the leading cause of immorality in New York, Straton and his followers succeeded in enacting municipal regulations on social dancing and moral conduct within the more than 750 public dance halls in New York City. Ralph G. Giordano conveys an easy to read and full picture of life in the Jazz Age, incorporating important events and personalities such as the Flu Epidemic, the Scopes Monkey Trial, Prohibition, Flappers, Gangsters, Texas Guinan, and Charles Lindbergh, while simultaneously describing how social dancing was a hugely prominent cultural phenomenon, one closely intertwined with nearly every aspect of American society fromthe Great War to the Great Depression. With a bibliography, an index, and over 35 photos, Satan in the Dance Hall presents an interdisciplinary study of social dancing in New York City throughout the decade.

Dance Hall Days $65 The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. Conflict was inevitable as older generations attempted to preserve their traditions, values, and ethnic identities, while the young sought out the cheap amusements and sexual freedom which the urban landscape offered. At immigrant picnics, social clubs, and urban dance halls, Randy McBee discovers distinct and highly contested gender lines, proving that the battle between the ages was also one between the sexes. Free from their parents and their strict rules governing sexual conduct, working women took advantage of their time in dance halls to challenge conventional gender norms. They routinely passed certain men over for dances, refused escorts home, and embraced the sensual and physical side of dance to further accentuate their superior skills and ability on the dance floor. Most men felt threatened by women's displays of empowerment and took steps to thwart the changes taking place. Accustomed to street corners, poolrooms, saloons, and other all-male get-togethers, working men tried to transform the dance hall into something that resembled these familiar hangouts. McBee also finds that men frequently abandoned the commercial dance hall for their own clubs, set up in the basements of tenement flats. In these hangouts, working men established rules governing intimacy and leisure that allowed them to regulate the behavior of the women who attended club events. The collective manner in which they behaved not only affected the organization of commercial leisure but also men and women's struggles with and against one another to define the meaning of leisure, sexuality, intimacy, and even masculinity.

Couple Dancing at Golfe Drouot Dance Hall $79.99 Alfred Eisenstaedt Couple Dancing at Golfe Drouot Dance Hall - Premium Photographic Print