College date parties are the best for having creative fun, getting everyone excited with their different and super exciting themes. Whether it’s a Toga party or a Hollywood glam night, these events bring students together to have a great time and create awesome memories during their college days. However, with the broad array of themes and multitude of events, it can become difficult to create the perfect outfit. Below we’ll provide you with a guide on what to expect, just to get you ahead of the game.
Cocktail/ Champagne and Shackles
With date parties come many exciting themes and fashion choices based on the theme. Of course have all heard of cocktail theme, which is the classy short formal dress for girls and the dress suit for the boys. Champagne and Shackles is also one of the most favored themes for a date party. This theme follows the same attire guidelines, but with an extra accessory or two. Popular websites to look for dresses are Revolve, Oh Polly, and Hello Molly.
Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is a very popular date party theme based off the movie Spring Breakers or the legitimate spring break. For the Spring Breakers movie inspired, girls typically wear a bikini top with sweatpants. The boys go for the colorful tee and bold sunglasses, per usual. For the legitimate spring break inspired, girls often wear Hawaiian shirts or bikini top with jean shorts. On the bright side, you can take your own unique twist on this theme and wear what you’re most comfortable in.
Toga
One of the most interesting and comical date party themes, the toga. For toga themed parties, you will find both girls and boys wrapped in a cut-up bed sheet and rope prancing their way down the Tuscaloosa Strip. Thankfully, this theme is very cheap and easy to do. All you need is a white sheet and a string to hold it all together. (Please wear something underneath) But, for the spice, a nice leaf crown or gold accents will really bring this theme to life.
Formal Theme
Above we talked about the cocktail theme events with the short formal dress. Although, mainly in Spring semester, there are many formal gown/ball events for sorority and fraternity events. These events often have a dress code of full length formal gowns. These special events are most likely that greek organizations most important, so it’s always a definitely a good idea to plan ahead and not worry about getting one last minute.
