Ideas for Drill Team Uniforms

Drill team uniforms range from the simple to the intricate, depending on the routine's music and dance steps. Drill teams going for a certain theme, such as zombies from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" or selected music from a musical, often use novelty costumes. Teams going for school spirit can utilize team-color costume options.

  1. Watercolor

    • Drill teams going for an ethereal look might consider custom-made watercolor dance costumes. Such costumes come in tank, camisole and long-sleeved styles with numerous skirt variations. Options include long skirts in royal gold to green to blue colors paired with a long-sleeved blue leotard or a lilac halter top dress with an empire waist skirt (all one dress). Other ideas include costumes with 30-inch chiffon peach-to-light purple skirts and peach tank-style leotard or costumes featuring double-cascade skirts in turquoise, cream and hot pink colors paired with a turquoise camisole.

    Biketards & Unitards

    • Biketard costume options include those in halter style featuring lace or long-sleeve biketards in metallic colors. Biketards are single clothing items featuring shorts. Ideas for unitard costumes include velvet unitards with halter crisscross straps and an open back with arm-length gloves. Lycra unitards with bell-bottom-style pants and shirt sleeves with slits in the arms and an attached belt is another option, or look for velvet one-sleeve unitards with assorted linear sparkling designs. Costumes are available in black, purple and blue among other colors.

    Novelty

    • Novelty costume ideas for drill teams include tattered zombie bride and groom costumes or tribal pants sets featuring velour olive-gold pants and tan velour tops with tribal patterns. "Newsies" costume sets are another option and feature cropped brown jackets with tan collars and cuffs and brown capri pants with tan cuffs. Raincoat costumes featuring short pleather raincoats, cowgirl uniforms, polka-dot baby-doll dresses, black trench coats, NASCAR biketards, doctors scrubs and even Lady Gaga-inspired costumes are also options.

    Tops & Leotards

    • Leotard costume options include assorted colors featuring black fringe around the top and waist. Leotards featuring long mesh sleeves and sequin patterns including sequin cuffs are another option, or look for plain long-sleeved leotards in solid colors. Top options for drill team costumes include sweatshirt hoodie designs for games in colder weather, sleeveless vest options, long-sleeved velour tops, halter tops and velvet sleeveless tops.