18 Disco Outfit Ideas You Can Boogie Down In

Dramatic Velvet Flares

Thora Valdimars wears a disco outfit idea for women featuring velvet flared pants. — Getty Images

We're not talking about a bit of flare or a touch of a wide-leg silhouette. To make a pair of flare pants feel disco based on silhouette alone, you need to go full out and over the top. Add a distressed graphic tee or shimmery halter top, one pair of platform boots, shake well, and you've got yourself a disco outfit for the ages.

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A Zip-Up Jumpsuit

Jumpsuits were huge in the 1970s and a zip-up jumpsuit perfectly captures the disco era's embrace of overt sensuality. Accessorize with a chain statement belt and keep your zipper low for maximum smolder.

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Bell Sleeves

A minidress with bell sleeves is instantly recognizable as a disco outfit, doubly so if it features a groovy abstract print or sequin detailing. Comfortable boots are an obvious choice for this look, but feel free to add a bit of a modern touch with strappy sandals or platform pumps.

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A Sparkly Jumpsuit

Taylor Swift wears a disco outfit to try for 2023 featuring a rhinestone-studded golden jumpsuit. — Getty Images

A gold rhinestone-studded jumpsuit like Taylor Swift's nails disco texture, silhouette, and embellishments, making it a truly best-in-class disco outfit. If you'll be dancing all night long, we recommend wearing a pair of matching metallic flats.

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A Shaggy Faux Fur Jacket

When it comes to disco outfit outerwear, you can't beat a shaggy faux fur coat. Larger-than-life fur coats were a staple of the disco era and you can rock the trend in cruelty-free technicolor today thanks to brands like Rotate Birger Christensen. Polish off this disco outfit with a matching mini-bag.

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Glittery Thigh-High Boots

Anna dello Russo wears a disco outfit idea to try for 2023 featuring thigh-high glitter YSL boots and a black mini-dress. — Getty Images

While a pair of shimmering statement boots and a sleek black mini-dress isn't technically a historically accurate disco outfit, all the elements of the disco aesthetic are there. This look is bold, glittery, and comfortable enough that you can boogie down all night in it.

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Go-Go Boots

If, on the other hand, you want to look like you've stepped straight out of Studio 54, we recommend styling a short dress with a pair of white go-go boots, a style of footwear that's practically synonymous with disco. Classic go-go boots are shiny, white, and hit just below the knee although taller versions deliver an equally groovy vibe.

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Oversized Collars

Ginevra Mavilla wears a sequin disco outfit featuring an oversized collar. — Getty Images

Don't sleep on separates when planning your disco outfit. After all, John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever suits are as iconic as they come thanks to his oversized shirt collar and close-fitting vest. Channel his vibe with a button-down featuring a dramatically oversized collar.

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A Glam Duster Jacket

Caroline Caro Daur wears a disco outfit to try for 2023 featuring a metallic duster jacket — Getty Images

Long coats are another disco-era staple. While they were popular in the 1970s, you can ensure that any disco outfit featuring a duster jacket feels on-theme by choosing one in a luxe material with a bit of shine to it rather than a velvet or crocheted version.

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Psychedelic Prints

Disco fashion wasn't all glitz and bling. It was also characterized by vivid prints in trippy colors, the more abstract and psychedelic, the better. If you go the pattern route with your disco outfit, be sure to that your 'fit contains other visual disco cues like metallic accessories or platform footwear, to avoid showing up at the disco in something better suited for Woodstock.

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A Front-Tied Crop Top

Annabelle Mandeng wears a disco outfit featuring a front-tie crop top. — Getty Images

For a more casual disco outfit, we recommend slipping into one of this era's easiest separates: a front-tied crop top and a pair of matching pants.

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A Gold Minidress

Gold lamé was the metallic of choice in the '70s, but if you can't find the fabric in a silhouette you love, a gold sequined minidress serves just as much disco.

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A Fully Sequined Suit

Gabrielle Caunesil wears a disco outfit featuring a sequin suit. — Getty Images

For maximum disco energy, lean all the way into the era's penchant for sparkle with a fully-sequined suit. Add a halter top or button-down with an oversized collar underneath or go bare under your jacket for a provocative look that would make Grace Jones proud.

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A Mod Minidress

Anna Rosa Vitiello wears a disco outfit to try for 2023 featuring a '60s mod mini dress — Getty Images

There's a reason disco dresses broke off from the '70s maxi-length hems and veered towards micro-mini territory. Simply put, a short dress is much easier to dance in. A mod mini with a loose-fitting silhouette means you can bust out all your best moves on the dance floor, and picking a mini with plenty of glittering embellishments is a must.

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Flower Power Pants

Take a cue from vintage-loving fashionista Emma Fridsell and add an eye-popping psychedelic floral print to your disco outfit. Rather than mixing florals with metallics, we recommend doing as Fridsell did and adding a shaggy shearling coat on top.

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Disco Ball Accessories

As part of a disco outfit, Ines Rau carries a silver chainlink purse. — Getty Images

Give the crochet style of the '70s big disco energy by incorporating metallic woven accessories into your disco outfit. Silver is an obvious choice, especially if your look features paillettes or sequins.

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Statement Sunnies

Lea Naumann wears disco sunglasses, part of a disco outfit to try for 2023. — Getty Images

What's more disco than tinted lenses worn at night? Not much. Oversized sunnies in unusual and creative shapes perfectly encapsulate this era's emphasis on breaking boundaries and stepping outside of the box, so it makes sense that they were big in the disco scene. If you're looking for a more toned down disco outfit, find yourself some funky sunglasses and call it a day.

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Lace-Up Pants

Tika Camaj wears a disco outfit for women featuring beige lace-up bell-bottom pants. — Getty Images

Another very era-appropriate style of bottoms that will complete any disco outfit is a pair of lace-up pants. While flares seem like the natural choice, the lacing detail, especially if the pants are high-waisted or the laces themselves are suede, deliver enough disco energy that the rest of their silhouette matters less.