Stock Market Crash Bash Tips

Time to bring back the style of the 1930s! Make your party as authentic as possible with these tips.Invitations

Go old fashioned and call up friends on the telephone. No text messaging allowed! Tell everyone to dress appropriately and bring their favorite inexpensive libations.

1930's-Inspired Attire

Encourage guests to dress up-it will make the cheap hooch easier to drink if you are dressed to impress.

Guys:

• Paint on mustaches
• Double breasted suit jackets with square shoulders and long broad lapels
• Long, baggy suit pants
• White dinner jackets
• Gangster suits
• Side parted and slick downed hair
• Suspenders
• Shirt cuffs

Girls:

• Dropped Waist Dresses
• Fishnets stockings with seams up the back
• Bias cut dresses
• Two-toned shoes with rounded toes and wide thick heels
• Red lips and matte makeup

Set the Mood: The Great Depression is no reason to be depressed. Get your party swinging with music that will have your guests ready to jump, jive and wail.

Cocktails

Continue the 1930s theme with ginger-ale and bourbon cocktails. Or for a more frugal option serve boxed wine and mark the box with your own label that says, "Moonshine."

Cuisine

Set up trays with peanuts in their shells, apple slices and inexpensive snack food that got its start in the '30s. For fun decorate the table with cans of SPAM, it made its debut in 1937!

Party Favors

Create your own economic stimulus package. Make (oversized) fortune cookies for each of your guests and tuck a dollar-bill inside, instead of a traditional fortune. Place the cookie inside a white Chinese take-away box filled with shredded money. Create a homemade label that says, "Buck Up!"