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Party Planning - Theme Party Ideas - Roaring 20's Theme Party

Gangsters & Molls Banquet

Roaring 20s Accessories

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Setting the Tone
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A Little 1920s History

   

When the Good Times Rolled!
Bring your guests back to the time of financial prosperity with a Roaring 20s theme party. You will find everything you need to have a good time in the sections below.
Have a great party!

 

Gangster Hats

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Gangster Costume

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Gangster Hats

Sequin Headbands

 

Gangster Costume

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Setting the Tone:

The key to pulling off a coordinated event: Evoke your theme throughout the affair. Whether that theme is as general as a season or a feeling, or as specific as a special flower, it should be the subtle thread that ties everything together. Your location, invitations, flowers, menu, cake, and favors should all cleverly reflect one common concept. Then, get as creative as you can!

 A Jazz Age celebration can take place almost anywhere, including any of an array of Victorian establishments that are commonly used as celebration sites. Think mansions with dark paneled wood, historical house museums of the period, an original 1920's building in Art Deco style like a restaurant with elaborate chandeliers. You might even consider a hotel with a giant ballroom. 

Make sure that the venue you select has a vintage look, not just on the outside but also in the room where the party will be held, a cocktail bar, and a dance floor large enough for guests to really ham it up. If the room truly has an authentic feel, then few other decorations are needed, just add a few palm trees, low lighting and atmospheric smoke created with a fog machine and you've got the perfect 1920's speak easy. 

Set the stage for your gangster & moll bash by arriving in a rented vintage car from the 1920s or just park one outside your venue entrance. Hire Valets to park your guests cars and have them dressed in vintage clothing.

Invitations

  • Use an Art Deco invitations. 

  • Print the invitation as an illegal admission ticket to a speakeasy, complete with secret password.

  • Invites with images of long, slender cigarette holders and cocktail glasses.

  • Invites with a picture or collage of a 'flapper' headband with a real feather. 

  • Invites with a 1920's vintage car design.

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Decorations

Make sure that the venue you select has a vintage look, not just on the outside but also in the room where the party will be held, a cocktail bar, and a dance floor large enough for guests to really ham it up. If the party room truly has an authentic feel, then few other decorations are needed, just add a few real or artificial palm trees, low lighting and atmospheric smoke created with a fog machine and you've got the perfect 1920's speak easy. 

Use black & white solid colored tableware. Place bottles of wine on each guest table, wrought iron accents such as (wine holders, candle holders, baskets).

Set out Chianti bottles. Insert candles into opening, light them and drip the wax down the sides. 

Think mood lighting - candles, candles, and more candles. 

* Create custom glassware by painting a simple pattern onto a plain wine glass, using egg whites and a small paintbrush – immediately sprinkle fine sugar over the egg white pattern.

* Fill drinking glasses – stemless wine glasses work great – with decorative stones, then place a tea light inside. Or, turn traditional wine glasses upside down and use them as candleholders. Use different heights and group them together for an elegant look. There is no such thing as too many candles. Candlelight is very flattering on everyone.

* Fill martini, wine and brandy glasses with marbles and add a tea light.

* Fill beer pilsners with nuts, mints and other candy and use ribbon to tie a bow at the stem. Place glasses throughout the house so guests can munch while mingling.

* Use clear martini glasses or margarita glasses to serve desserts, mashed potatoes, sorbets or other side dishes.

* An inexpensive way to dress up your party is to pick up some specialty barware like unusual martini glasses, stemless wine glasses, or light up barware.

 

Speak Easy Back Room

Adding a few casino decorations would create the perfect speak easy back room decor.

 

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Food Ideas:

Mangia! Mangia! 
Don’t forget the most important part of the party – Italian food!  When your gangsters' & molls' want to eat, they say, "Mangia!" That means eat until you can eat no longer.


Serve lotsa pasta! Have a pasta buffet where guests can pick and choose their own pastas and sauces. 

Begin the meal with plates of antipasti. Ask each guest to bring one contribution to the platter, such as olives, cheese or meats, then spread them out on the table and snack away. 

Why not serve American’s favorite Italian food – Pizza! You can make pizzas with a variety of toppings and offer slices throughout the evening. 
Make a big green salad tossed with Italian dressing. 

Other Ideas:
Homemade spaghetti and meatballs, 
Ravioli with red sauce, 
Shells stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach
Garlic breadsticks with a side of red sauce for dipping. 

Italian wines and Italian sodas. (Red Sebastiani wine for the adults) and (grape juice or soda for the youngsters). 

For dessert, it’s got to be gelato, the ice cream specialty of Italy.  

Or try Chocolate Cannoli

Brew up cappuccinos, espressos, and lattes to go with the gelato. 

End the evening with a shot of grappa to help digest the meal! 

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Activities & Games

The Charleston was all the rage during the Roaring Twenties, so hire a DJ or Band and dance the night away! Other popular dances of the 20s included: Foxtrot, Turkey Trot, Peabody, Jive, Lindy Hop, Black Bottom. Hire a dance instructor to come in and teach a few steps to your guests.

Remember those speak easies were created to provide alcoholic beverages & gambling. So set up your own little back room gambling casino with casino games.

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A Little 1920s History

The end of WWI marked the beginning of the Roaring '20s. During this freewheeling decade, skirts got shorter, gangsters fought for control of alcohol sales, and the Charleston was all the rage.

The 1920s, a prosperous time period was known by a few names, such as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Age of Wonderful Nonsense, and the Age of Intolerance. 

In 1919, the 18th Amendment passed the act of Prohibition, which made consumption and even possession of alcohol illegal. The general intent of the this Amendment was to lower crime and improve the general status of life. But the opposite happened, crime increased as people rebelled against not being able to drink alcohol. Numerous illegal bars called speak easies were created to provide alcoholic beverages & gambling. This time period also included bathtub gin and other versions of homemade alcohol. Gangsters profited during this decade by smuggling alcohol and selling it to different illegal businesses. 

In the 1920s, a new woman was born, She smoked, drank, danced, asked guys out, bobbed her hair, wore baggy dresses which often exposed her arms as well as her legs from the knees down, she used make-up (which she might well apply in public), went to petting parties, was more assertive and voted. She took the same jobs as men and still fought for laws against inequality. Her antics were immortalized in the cartoons of John Held Jr., she was the heroine of the Jazz Age. With her short hair, short skirt, turned-down hose and powdered knees - she must have seemed to her mother (the gentle Gibson girl of an earlier generation) like a rebel. No longer confined to home and tradition, this young women was often thought of as a little fast and maybe even a little brazen. Mostly, she offended the older generation because she defied conventions of acceptable feminine behavior. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper.

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THE FLAPPER
by Dorothy Parker 


The Playful flapper here we see,
The fairest of the fair.
She's not what Grandma used to be, --
You might say, au contraire.
Her girlish ways may make a stir,
Her manners cause a scene,
But there is no more harm in her
Than in a submarine.

She nightly knocks for many a goal
The usual dancing men.
Her speed is great, but her control
Is something else again.
All spotlights focus on her pranks.
All tongues her prowess herald.
For which she well may render thanks
To God and Scott Fitzgerald.

Her golden rule is plain enough -
Just get them young and treat them
rough

 

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Remember those speak easies were created to provide alcoholic beverages & gambling. So set up your own little back room gambling casino with casino games. Adding a few casino decorations would create the perfect speak easy back room decor.

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20's Party Items

Black Felt Gangster Hat
White Felt Gangster Hat
Red Felt Gangster Hat
Black Velour Gangster Hat
White Velour Gangster Hat
Black Gangster Hat
White Gangster Hat
Red Gangster Hat
Yellow Gangster Hat
White Felt Derby
Sequin Feather Hair Clip
Black Sequin Headband
Silver Sequin Headband
Gold Sequin Headband
12mm 48" Pearls
42" Pearl Necklace
18mm 42" Pearls
Black & Silver Super Boa
White & Silver Super Boa
White & Gold Super Boa
Black & Gold Super Boa
Deluxe White Boas
Deluxe Black Boas
$100 Bling Necklace
Jeweled Dollar Bling
Dollar Sign Necklace
Flapper Costume
Gangster Costume
Gangster Shirt & Tie
Tuxedo Vest
Blues Brothers Glasses
Gambler Hat
Red & White Stripe Vest
Blinking Bowtie
Black Glitter Top Hat
Play Money
1.5" Gold Coins
Blinking Dice Beads
Light Up Dice
Big Band Cd
Latin & Ballroom Cd
Cocktail Party Cd
The Rat Pack Happy Hour
Silver & Gold Saxophone
Band On The Run Kit
Light Up Martini Glass
Flashing Shot Glasses
Light Up Pilsner Glass


 

 

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