Are you hosting a bachelorette party this year? Your guests will thank you for a 1920's theme! Not only is it a great chance to swill Champagne and gin and tonics, but roaring 20s flapper costumes happen to flatter every body type and a wide range of styles. When your friends try on their flapper costumes in plus size, they'll be delighted to find that most of our flapper dresses are designed to hug and flatter at the same time. Those who don't feel comfortable slipping into one of our flapper dance costumes could even dress in an easy gangster costume! A: If we are talking about female gangsters, there is no one most famous that Bonnie Elizabeth Parker. She killed 13 people and robbed many banks and gas stations with her partner Clyde Barrow. As for other gangsters, you’ve surely heard of Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone, John Dillinger, Charles Luciano, etc. Q: What are some gangster slang words? Get this Gun Garter Holster to Complete Your Look! A Dress That Looks Like a Skirt? Yes, It’s Possible! This article was co-authored by Kalee Hewlett. Kalee Hewlett is a Celebrity Stylist & Confidence Coach with almost two decades of experience helping clients build confidence and ‘dress for success.' She works with her clients to transform their sense of self 'from the inside out’ by merging her expertise in image consulting with Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Kalee’s work is rooted in science, style, and the understanding that ‘identity is destiny'. She uses her own methodology and Style To Success Strategy to create positive identity shifts. Kalee is a fashion TV host and appears regularly on QVC UK sharing her fashion expertise. She also was appointed as the head judge and host of Fashion One Network’s 6-part TV show 'Design Genius.’ Well, you've done good. You moved from being a gangster moll to being an armed and dangerous lady. And now you've made it all the way to the top as a mob boss. It's a natural evolution, but only the best gangsters have the gut and the guile to take over a top crime syndicate. And you've passed the test!

A: A female gangster might be called a gun moll if she is a companion of a male mobster. Women themselves weren’t gangster’s that often, but many of them were accompanying crime bosses of the time. Q: Who was the most famous gangster in the 1920s? A perfect match with that skirt can be a simple shirt that could be white or pale yellow. Women always like to dedicate their attention to details, and the 1920s were no different. If you are going for a bandit style, think about a beautiful beret hat and a scarf. It was a case of "unintended consequences." The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. It was passed onmoraland health grounds. What its proponents failed to recognize was that people who wanted alcohol would find a way to get it. So a whole illegal industry arose, and the American gangster was born. Bootleggers. Moonshiners. Rum-runners. Al Capone. George "Machine Gun" Kelly. Then there were the G-Men, who worked to stop the bootleggers. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith. They all earned places in American history.

This article contains links where we may earn a small commission at no cost to you: Learn more here Chicago in the 1920’s. Al Capone and Dion O’Banion battled for gang supremacy, John Dillinger was in jail, plotting his return to crime as a bank robber and bootlegging was the best way to make some cash during the hard times of the depression. A lot may have changed since then, but the image of tough, Tommy gun wielding gangsters, still evokes a sort of romanticism about crime that your local law enforcement agencies probably don’t appreciate too much. Kid flapper costumes are a great staple to have in your kid's dress-up wardrobe! (or any age, for that matter) White flapper costumes can be worn in a 4th of July parade, to a Mardi Gras Party, and even on a cold Halloween night when paired with grandma's old fur coat from the seventies! Flapper girl costumes are sure to spark impromptu dance parties to big band music, every time they come out of the closet, which might be quite often! Sure you're going to be #1 on the FBI's most wanted list, but when they snap your photo, you're going to want to look like a real mob boss. Which is why you should definitely choose this Female Gangster costume! Tapping into the style of all the famous gangsters from the Roaring Twenties, this costume's got the style of a mob boss suit cut for women, and with all the costume details that matter. Top secret leader of crime syndicate renowned across the country much? A-ha! We knew it. We knew you were the top gangster running the hooch, the one who makes the Tommy Gun sing like no other, and, of course, the one who's got the big timecabbage from the bank all holed up in the hideout. If you've achieved all that as a big time mobster, maybe it's time to make a name for yourself and be not so secret? Well, we got a costume for that!

We’re not trying to convince you to lead a life of crime, following in the footsteps of Capone or Dillinger, but acting like a gangster for a night is the best way to get in touch with your bad self. And for those dangerous gangsters, being an outlaw was just as much about style as it was about ruthless competition with the law. Each of them had a specialization! Machine Gun Kelly made a name for himself as a bank robber, who received his first Tommy Gun from his wife Kathryn Thorpe (aww, true love). John Dillinger went so far as to rob police stations, redefining what it truly means to “fight the law”. Of course, Al Capone thought much bigger. The term Mob Boss is practically synonymous with Al Capone, since he used his wits to gain control of the criminal underworld.Bonnie was Clyde’s partner and probably the most famous and vicious female gangster ever. Is there a better character to look for inspiration in that niche? Everyone can dress in different colors, leaving white to the bride! Those who choose one of our silver flapper costumes will find that it's absolutely perfect to reuse for New Year's Eve. One of our pink flapper costumes would look so sweet at a garden party. Gold flapper costumes are utterly timeless and would look amazing at Halloween or even on a date night to one of those trendy speakeasies. And we can't think of a better look to take to New Orleans than one of our purple flapper costumes. Yes, this is one theme that's sure to be recycled but when all of you are all together, you're sure to paint the town red! Anything less than a snazzy suit and tie was doing the organized crime an injustice. That’s exactly the reason why all of our gangster costumes come with a dapper look that you can wear to the speakeasy, or to the next bank robbery (again, not that we condone any sort of unlawful behavior while wearing any of these outfits)!