Casino Night Party Costume Ideas

When attending or hosting a casino night party you want to be sure that you show up with the right attire. Casino night party costumes are actually one of the most diverse costumes, believe it or not. However, the first thing you must do is find out what the Casino night party is all about. Is it 'suppose' to be a black-tie event? Or is it just a fun Casino night party? Or is there an accompanying theme to go with it for example: "roaring 30's casino party".

Once you find that out you can start planning your costume accordingly starting here.

If you know that it's just a general fun Casino night party then you can use one of the following ideas.

1) Dress up as a Mobster
Mobsters ruled Las Vegas casinos for many many years. Use this to your advantage and dress up as a classy mobster. The guys can wear a full-pinstriped suit with a fedora hat (as seen here). The ladies can wear a sexy pin-stripped dress, hat and have a long ciagrette holder (as seen here).

2) High Roller Costume
The high-roller costume is how you're trying to show everyone that you have the money to spend. If you have fancy clothes at home (suit, tux, etc) use that and have dollar bills flowing out of all the pockets. Otherwise use one of the pre-made high-roller costumes.

3) Dress up as a beach-goer
Most of the famous casino's around the world are placed in warm sunny locations (Vegas, Monaco, , etc..). From this you can dress up as a surfer dude or surfer chick. You can explain to people you wanted to play a few games before heading to the beach. This is a very easy costume as all you really need is your bathing suit, towel and t-shirt.

4) Poker player
You can dress the part of a famous poker player like Chris Moneymaker. The key parts of this costume is the sunglasses and stare-down.


5) Lady Luck costume
The lady luck costume is very tacky and terrific casino night costume. The costume has the 'superstitious' accents: horseshoe, rabbit's foot, 4 leaf clover, etc..

6) Playing card costume
A playing card costume is another costume that not everyone will want to wear. However, it's a funny costume for those who can take a laugh. The costume features a rigid playing card created by laminating foam onto polyester. You can pair this with a few friends have a poker hand (ex: full-house, etc... )

Honorable mentions: Elvis, Showgirl, Card Dealer and Vegas Vixen.

Hopefully these casino night party costumes get your brain thinking about your costume. Be sure to leave enough time to create or buy the perfect costume especially since Casino night parties take a lot of work to organize and are a LOT of fun!

Dress Code For Casino Night Party

The dress code for a casino night can sometimes set the mood for the evening. You can really set the dress code to whatever you like from casual to semi-formal to black-tie. In fact, you can even make the party a 50's party and have the dress code for that generation.

We recommend setting the party either semi-formal or even formal. This creates a very fun atmosphere as everyone has spent a bit of time getting ready. This means they took the time to get ready they will take the time to gamble and have a great time. If you set the dress code as "casual" people are less likely to take it seriously as very little preparation (on their part) was required. A 50's party theme is a fun dress code because you can get a wide range of dress codes. In fact, you can see everything from the usual black tie, long dresses with boas to people dressed as working class people.

Finally, you should ensure that your casino invitation states that "costume is required" or "appropriate attire is required". If you're friends are typically lazy stating "costume is required or no entrance will be allowed" is a good option. You don't want people to be allowed to simply not read or just show up without a costume.

Remember, just because you enjoy dressing up doesn't mean that everyone does. If someone shows up who isn't dressed up you have a few choices: tell them to go get dressed up, provided them with their own costume or just let them in. If everyone at the party is dressed and they're the only ones who don't show up dressed up they will probably feel rather silly and eventually want that change of clothes.