The Best Mardi Gras Outfits for Women (2024)

If you are heading to Mardi Gras in New Orleans or throwing a Mardi Gras party of your own and are looking for ideas for the perfect Mardi Gras outfits for women, this post will have everything you need to take you from the early morning parade to the late-night formal ball.

Perfect outfit pieces for all your Mardi Gras festivities!

This list is all about the best Mardi Gras outfits for women – from the parades during the day to the festivities when the sun goes down. Casual, cute and comfortable looks to spend the day at the parades and more formal or sexy outfits to greet the night at a Mardi Gras ball, or under the glittering lights of New Orleans.

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Mardi Gras Outfits For Women – Day Parade Wear, Sexy Daytime Wear, Evening Wear and Accessories

On many days, Mardi Gras parades start at 8am so we have comfortable parade gear to get you through the early morning parade all the way to the afternoon parades. Pace yourself! Drink water! Check out our full guide to Mardi Gras in New Orleans to give you all the helpful tips and tricks.

You will look so cute and ready to catch all the throws in these pieces. Put them all together to create your own look. We also have evening looks and all the accessories that will go from day to night. If you are inspired by the items posted but they are not quite right, head over to our storefront of Mardi Gras Essentials to look through all types of ideas for Mardi Gras outfits for women, men and kids!

Let The Shenanigans Begin

Some classic t-shirts with Mardi Gras vibes are just the ticket for those fun morning parades in New Orleans! Pair it up with some jeans or tri-colored pants, comfy shoes, and Mardi Gras earrings, and you are ready to go catch some beads!

Parade The Crazy Down the Street

Hilarious shirt, perfect for a day of grabbing some coffee and beignets at Cafe Du Monde, going to a couple of parades, and having drinks and hurricanes in the French Quarter before heading back to your hotel to get ready for the ball!

Classic Fleur de Lis

The Fleur de Lis is the symbol of New Orleans and their beloved Saints, and this one is decked out in the three Mardi Gras colors and covered in sparkles. Perfect for New Orleans Mardi Gras!

Mardi Gras Mask Earrings

When you think you are going a little overboard on all the purple, green and gold – add some more. That’s the Mardi Gras way in New Orleans! Take, for example, these very on theme earrings. They are perfect!

Mardi Gras Boa

To properly experience Mardi Gras, you have to tap into your inner diva and be FABULOUS! Is there any other accessory out there that makes you channel the diva within more than a boa? We think not.

Mardi Gras Earrings

These earrings are so fabulous. Mardi Gras, the colors, the sparkle. We had to include them! Tre Magnifique!

Mardi Gras accessories pack

Going to grab some breakfast before heading out to the parades? Be set for the day with this accessory set. Have a different look for each of the parades!

The Perfect Purple Mardi Gras Skirt

This skirt positively SCREAMS Mardi Gras! Pair it with anything casual for a perfect day look, or grab your sexy shirt and dance the night away with all this shimmer and sway.

Mardi Gras shorts

Are you serious right now?? These are amazing for Mardi Gras!!! Grab a pair to wear as you cruise up and down Bourbon Street and get you some beads!

Mardi Gras Accessories set

You absolutely cannot go wrong with this Mardi Gras set! It is everything you need to carry you through the day. Make some new friends and give them these beads as you get some of your own. Work your look with the headband, skirt, and boa, and throw that mask on because what other time would you ever be able to do that?? So fun!!

Mardi Gras Colors Skirt

Remember how we said that purple skirt listed above was the perfect Mardi Gras skirt? Ok, well there are two of them. Because what!?!? We had to include this one! Shake and shimmy your fabulous self all over the Crescent City in this amazing skirt.

Mardi Gras Leggings

Are you a leggings fan? We get you. Could there be a more comfortable thing to wear? These are perfect for Mardi Gras. Throw on a cute Mardi Gras themed shirt, accessorize, put on your favorite comfy shoes, and you will be ready to hit the parades and go all day!

Mardi Gras shiny leggings

Want a bit more glitz and glam to your leggings? Wear something that you wouldn’t normally wear? This is the time and these are the leggings! Nothing is too over the top during Mardi Gras in New Orleans and you will be an absolute winner in these leggings!

Mardi Gras pants

Channeling your inner fashionista while partaking in Mardi Gras revelry? These pants are just the ticket. Dress them down for daytime festivities or glam them up for evening events, they are perfect in every sense!

Mardi Gras cowboy hat

Ok so this isn’t technically a Mardi Gras specific accessory, but we just love how it looks when we see people wearing this hat and glasses with their Mardi Gras outfits! So freaking cute! So we included it! Besides, anything goes when it comes to Mardi Gras looks so grab that cowboy hat and werk it girl!

Mardi Gras Purple Shirt

We just love the duality of this top—sparkle and glam combined with comfort. That is the ultimate combination. Add in the perfect Mardi Gras purple, and it is sooooo good for Fat Tuesday! Dress it down for the parades, or throw on a tight little skirt and shake your moneymaker after the sun goes down.

Mardi Gras Corset

Something about this just screams New Orleans to us. Can you imagine how freaking amazing and sexy you will look in this as part of your Mardi Gras outfit? We love it.

Shiny Swing Skirt

These cute, shiny, swingy skirts are so amazing for Mardi Gras. They come in every Mardi Gras color so grab the one that you like the best and rock it all the way from Canal Street to Bourbon.

Mardi Gras Gold Dress

Ohhh la la! Have a Mardi Gras ball to attend? This dress is giving stunning, beautiful, sexy.

Butterfly Glimmer Shirt

This playful and sexy butterfly shirt just says Mardi Gras to us. If you don’t want to wear a dress at night but want to have some sparkle, this shirt is it!

If Mardi Gras was a Dress

This dress. OMG. It is the personification of Mardi Gras in New Orleans in a garment. Bring the house down in this show stopper!

Sexy Long Sleeve Dress

We love this dress because it is bringing all the heat but is still so wearable to go and do all the fun things! No worry about anything falling out (not like that is a problem during Mardi Gras anyway lol) and you can grab all the beads and drink all the hurricanes in this comfortable but gorgeous dress.

Face Jewels

Mardi Gras embraces over-the-top styles and fashion, so if you have ever thought about doing something “crazy” but have no where to wear it – you can wear it to Mardi Gras! These face jewels are the perfect example!

Mardi Gras Wig

You will see soooo many people wearing colorful hair during Mardi Gras and this wig took our breath away. Its so gorgeous, and the color! Yes please!

Mardi Gras Sexy Black Lace Mask

What is it about this mask that is just SO sexy? It isn’t Mardi Gras colored, but wow, we love it. Put it on with a black outfit or dress and you will have the Mardi Gras vibe with a touch of edginess.

We hope this post with the best Mardi Gras Outfits for Women was helpful! Laissez les bon temps rouler!! Don’t forget to check out our post on Mardi Gras tips and our post on a Mardi Gras journal!

Still shopping? You can check out our posts for St. Patrick’s Day outfits, or Spring Dresses!

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