How to create a 70's themed party

Organizing a themed party can be the perfect solution for a successful meeting with friends. If you can not think of new ideas to make different celebrations, or if your parties start to seem too much to each other, you can try using a classic that does not fail: to evoke one of the most emblematic and psychedelic decades of all time. If you want to know how to organize a theme party of the 70s, keep reading.

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At the time of organizing a party of the 70s, clothing is very important, especially because it makes you move automatically towards that time. You can use old clothes that you have at home or take them out of any flea market (or even first hand in a store, since now it is vintage). The formula is well known: bell trousers, long skirts, hair bands, wigs, sunglasses with large lenses, platform shoes, high boots, shirts with wide collars, minishorts. What do not you know where to start ?, see our article about how to dress for a party of the 70 and find the answers you are looking for.

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Music can not be absent at any time, and together with the dress will be what most characterizes the party. However, here is going to depend a lot on the orientation that you are going to give to the event. If you want to make it more hippy-rocker, you can include groups like The Doors, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, AC / DC or The Who.

If instead you prefer to focus on the funky and discoteque era of the late 70s, you can always turn to groups like the Bee Gees, Sly & the Family Stone, the Jackson Five, Donna Summer ... It almost goes without saying that if you go to To make a party centered on dance music, it is almost essential to include in the 'props' of the party a typical disco ball hanging from the ceiling. They are small in many stores.

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During the 60s and 70s the interest of the West for Asia increased, and in particular for India, as already revealed groups like the Beatles. Why not pay homage to that spiritual journey that many experienced during those years? For the decoration, typical Hindu motifs can be valued, as well as cushions, carpets, natural fiber fabrics, handcrafted leather or wood products, hand-printed, etc.

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Decorate the walls with posters of actors or successful films of that decade. Here is a list of the best known: The Godfather, Grease, The Exorcist, the first part of Star Wars, The Mechanical Orange, Alien, Shark, Rocky and The Coup. Surely most of the guests have seen all or almost all of them.

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And when organizing your party of the 70s do not forget the symbols that marked an era, and that can serve as additional decoration, whether on the walls, shelves or tables: covers of famous newspapers of the time, the symbol of the Peace, flowers, psychedelic images, the smiling symbol of the smiley, are some good examples.