Step in to the Wild Wild West as a Saloon Girl this Halloween in a saloon fancy dress.

You’re ready to expose that sexy and sassy side of yourself this Halloween! A saloon fancy dress is the perfect costume to show off your curves while providing a bit more coverage than other sexy costumes. You can find a variety of dresses online at Saloon Fancy Dress.net. Don’t forget to pick up a pair of sexy shoes, fishnet hose, and feathered boa to complete your outfit.

The Saloon Girl Adult Costume is a standard one size fits most adult costume. You’ll kick up your heels while wearing this fancy saloon dress.

The black silky skirt is full and is trimmed in a black thick organza hem with red sequined ribbon trim. The bodice is a corset style; this is not a stiff corset, in red velvet. The top has a wide black belt to show off your curves. The sleeves are black with red trim that matches the skirt.

Top your head with the feathered headpiece with red bow. To complete the outfit choose a pair of black hose, and garter shoes.

Tame the Wild West in the Saloon Girl Grand Heritage Collection Adult Costume. This is a dancing girls dress. You’ll provide them with a show of style and elegance in this saloon fancy dress.

The dress is green and made from silky material. The skirt is short, and has a black fringed hem. The skirt has a long back skirt in silky sheer green netting, which attaches at your sides with pretty pink flowers.

The green top is fitted and has a beautiful black scrolling lace overlay. The center of the top has a faux button down front, which gives the dress a corset appearance. The straps of the top are green ruffles.

Complete this costume when you add the large black feather headpiece, green ruffled sassy garter with matching pink roses and sheer black lace glovettes.

This is a high quality saloon fancy dress, available in adult sizes small, medium, and large. Pick up the final touches by adding a pair of fishnet, dancing shoes, and the Saloon Madame Adult Wig in auburn.

Everyone will know you’re at the party ready to entertain them for the night when you show up in the short sexy Showgirl Adult Costume.

This mini dress is an asymmetrical dress with black sequins on one side with red velvet on the other. The sides and edges of the dress are covered in a red ruffle trim with black detailing. The bottom of the skirt is covered in long black fringe.

This saloon fancy dress also includes the red bloomers, which are necessary when wearing this dress. Add the large black and red feather headpiece that finalizes your costume.

You may want to pick up a feather boa, black fishnets and of course a comfortable pair of dancing shoes.

You will be a showstopper no matter which saloon fancy dress you choose to wear this Halloween. Step out, kick your heels up, and drive the boys batty when you show a bit of your wild and sexy self. These costumes and more are available when you buy online at Buy Costumes.

For the cowboys and gold miners of the old west, the showgirls and saloon girls of the wild west provided a much needed entertainment from the hardships of this life.  Much of our images of these Can Can Girls has been fashioned by the Movie Westerns or Television shows such as Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, and Gunsmoke, where Miss Kitty ran the Long Branch Saloon and pined for Sherrif Matt Dillon.

The Mystique of Saloon Girls during the Wild West Period

In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner, defined the ‘Wild West’ as the period of time from 1865-1890. He stated the Wild West was not so much a geographical area as it was receding frontier line, which moved westward as civilization conquered savagery. However it is defined, the Wild West was settled town by town west of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, by farmers, ranchers, cowboys, cattle barons and even miners searching for gold; and the women who followed behind them or along side them, step by step across the American West. Some came west as wives or daughters, and some came west to continue their trade as saloon girls.

Everywhere a settlement sprang up you would find saloons, brothels, and gambling dens long before the churches and schools were ever built. In all of these could be found women down on their luck, working for pennies. In the saloons they would become known as saloon girls or dance-hall girls. There jobs were to entertain the men who were starving for female companionship, or just the simple desire to look at a pretty girl dresses in a flashy bright colored outfit, after months on a trail drive with a hundred men. For many men these saloon girls were the only women they ever saw.

Despite the ‘myth’ saloon girls were very rarely prostitutes, in fact saloon girls looked down on the fallen women who had to work in the lowest levels of their profession in seedy brothels. No, saloon girls had a respectable job; singing, dancing, playing cards, and entertaining men so they would continue to stay in the saloons, spending money on expensive liquor and losing money to the house by gambling.

In the finer saloons of the Wild West like the still standing Crystal Palace, and Big Nose Kate’s in Tombstone, Arizona; saloon girls were dancers on the stage in regular shows put on for the customers. Hiking up their heels as they danced the Can-Can in bright red crinoline or black and purple silk petticoats, they were women chorus lines long before Las Vegas was ever built.

Most saloon girls did not start out in life to be one. Many were abandoned wives and daughters of settlers, or widows of men killed during the move west. Good women, forced to earn a living in the one place that accepted and respected them. For they were protected by the owner of the saloons and the men who frequented them; despite Hollywood hyperbole, saloon girls were taken care of and adored by the lonely men who frequented the saloons. Where else could a woman earn enough money to survive on with no home, no man, and no way out?

Frowned upon and despised by the “proper” ladies of the towns did not bother these saloon girls; if anything they felt sorry for the “drab brown sparrows” who worked from dawn to dust, on farms and in fields, dying young from hard work, too many babies, and often times mistreated by the men who drank in the saloons.

Saloon girls wore colorful clothing, feathers in their hair, bright bold make-up, short dresses and the latest fashions from Paris. They were the walking fashion statements of the Wild West! Today they can still be glimpsed in the chorus lines of Vegas, Chicago, and New York; seen in the clubs and bars filled with men and women being served by women in racy outfits or tight t-shirts and shorts.