On holidays in kindergarten and school, boys like to wear a hussar costume. The cost of rental outfits is quite high, and it is a pity to give a lot of money for one ceremonial exit in it. If you can sew, then making such an outfit yourself is easy. It consists of several elements:
- dolman;
- mentic;
- pants;
- boots;
- shako.
We will briefly understand what it is. For a child, you can significantly reduce the outfit by sewing only a jacket in a uniform with epaulettes and a hat with a visor. Any dark or white pants will do. Instead of boots, you can wear Czechs. For the assembly hall of the kindergarten, they will be more appropriate.
Hussar costume
Before sewing epaulettes with your own hands, you need to know what part of the clothes they are sewn on.
- Doloman is a strict uniform to the waist with rows of buttons on the sides.
- The mentic is the top cloak often worn on one shoulder. She is trimmed with fur.
- Hussar pants have a different shape. This and breeches, and tight trousers.
- A shako is a tall hat with a visor that resembles a cylinder in shape. Decorated with a central emblem or feather, a chain or a gold rope on two buttons that hangs from one edge to the opposite.
Epaulettes for a suit for a boy are sewn both on a broken one and on a mentic, depending on whether they put on these two items of clothing or only one.
From the article you will learn how to make epaulettes with your own hands. These are shoulder straps with fringe, which are often present in outfits of hussars and kings. Usually they attract attention with their bright colors, shine with gold or silver. Next, we dwell on tailoring and the necessary materials to make your products elegant and effective.
We select a dense base
Do-it-yourself epaulettes are made using a solid base so that they stay on the shoulders evenly and do not bend. Some needlewomen buy real epaulettes in a military clothing store, cut off excess length from a smooth edge and sew with fabric on all sides, leaving the buttonhole for the button intact.
If you do not have such a store or a military man with old epaulettes, then use the thick corrugated cardboard from the old box. It is better to cut two bases for sewing the epaulette with your own hands on each shoulder according to the template, thereby further strengthening the density of the craft. It is recommended to glue them together with PVA glue.
The smooth edges of the shoulder strap can be left unchanged, as is done in the photo above, or you can attach or cut a rounding at the end of each workpiece.
Sheathing shoulder strap
The solid base chosen for sewing the epaulette with your own hands, you need to process with a cloth and sew on a silver or gold edging, you can use a colorful logo in tone in the center of the craft. You can take any material, but if you are a beginner, it is more convenient and easier to work with felt sheets. The color of the product should be in harmony with the overall outfit. For a child, it is better to take bright colors, for example, blue, red or yellow.
In the photo above, you can clearly see how the cardboard base for the epaulette is sheathed with its own hands. When everything is trimmed with felt, an edging is attached along the edge, in the center - an emblem (you can do without it). Select a button to match the finish and fringe.
The last stage of finishing
DIY epaulettes for a hussar are sewn both on a sewing machine and manually for its absence. An obligatory element of these products is fringe. She needs to sheathe not the entire epaulet, but only its edge. If you made a base with a rounded edge, then fringe only this part of the craft.
Fringe can be purchased at the sewing accessories store, picking it up to the color of edging and buttons. To start and end clearly coincide on the two products, before sewing, you must definitely make a fitting on the child’s shoulder and mark the necessary points with a marker or chalk. It is advisable to choose the threads of the same shade so that no seams are visible at all. Any fringe is suitable, from twisted silk ropes or tassels of threads, as in the sample above.
How to sew epaulettes with your own hands (a master class is given in the article), you already know, therefore, you can easily cope with the task. Sew them on the tunic after fitting in such a way that the fringe hangs freely from the child’s shoulders. They strengthen it in two places along the seam of the jacket - in the neck and on the shoulder itself - with basting stitches. Epaulettes of the same color with trousers or a shako will look beautiful. Have a good start!