Why Is A Photo Booth Ideal For A Gatsby-Themed Party?

Fancy dress parties are always made better by having a photo booth to show off your costumes, but some are more so than others. However, there can be no doubt that a Gatsby Party is just such an occasion.

Based around F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel The Great Gatsby, about a tragic socialite living in the roaring 20s, a Gatsby Party can draw on a range of stylistic and social themes from that era:

• The speakeasies, where alcohol was secretly drunk in defiance of the prohibition laws
• Jazz music
• The fashions, such as the women’s ‘flapper’ outfits with their pearl necklaces and feather boas, and men in tuxedos
• Art Deco design in everything from furniture to ornaments
• The opulence of the parties, based on the myth of soaring paper wealth that would never end (until the reality check of 1929)

The appeal of this era has never gone away, perhaps because it was a very different world to that which emerged after the stock market crash and the end of prohibition, but also because the styles look so outrageously glamorous even today.

Why Is A Photo Booth Ideal For A Gatsby Party?

That is why you just have to get caught on film in your super-smart outfit or spectacular array of pearls and feathers. Ensuring you have a photo booth is one of the first elements of the part you should arrange, so everyone can pose for posterity.

You may provide some of the furnishings and props yourself, but we can provide a great backdrop for your pictures with an Art Deco backdrop.

This style became wildly fashionable in the 1920s, following its formal introduction at a major art exhibition in Paris in 1925. No style could possibly be more suitable for a 1920s-themed party.

All we ask is that you keep it themed on the Great Gatsby and avoid the insane mess of a party based on Bugsy Malone!