Sometimes for a holiday you need to come in costumes of different nations of the world. Here, parents will have to carefully consider national costumes and choose the one that will look spectacular, and make it easier. In the article, we will consider the option of a Mexican New Year's costume. This outfit is more suitable for a boy. The costume actually consists of the top. Pants can be worn any dark, even jeans are suitable.
Cloak
One of the elements of a Mexican costume will be a striped poncho. This is a woolen cloak that Mexicans put on in the cold season. It is not difficult to do it, only it will be necessary to purchase striped dense matter, it is desirable that it be bright, it is possible with a geometric ornament. A double measure is enough from the child’s shoulder to the middle of the thigh.
You can even make it shorter, but to hide the belt. The fabric is folded in half and a neck recess is cut in the center at the bend. The neckline is trimmed with a hem, and laces with pompons are tied. On the lower edge of the Mexican costume you need to sew a tape with a fringe or tassels. The width of the poncho is the distance from the middle of one shoulder to the middle of the other. The cloak should hang from the shoulders.
Vest
For a Mexican costume for a boy, you can sew a vest instead of a poncho. The material is also taken striped. It is desirable that the traditional colors of Mexican national costumes be present. It is brown, red, black, yellow, orange, green. Also, complete with a vest, you need to make a red wide satin belt for the Mexican costume, which is tied to the bow on the side.
Sewing a vest is easy, you can use the standard pattern. If you don’t have it, then take an old children's vest and outline it on a newspaper, then cut a pattern along the contour and sew all the details with internal seams. This can be done by any mother who at least once held a needle with a thread in her hands. No special skills are needed to sew a Mexican costume for a boy. To prevent the floors of the vest from diverging in the dance, you can sew a bright lace with a pompom on each half and tie both halves together on a bow. Pants for this outfit are better to wear black. A tape with pompons or tassels can be sewn onto the side seams of the pants. A white loose-fitting shirt with wide sleeves on cuffs is put under the vest.
Belt
The belt for a Mexican costume needs a wide and bright. It is better to buy a piece of red satin. Cutting the belt is easy. This is a long strip folded in half. Sew the fabric on the wrong side so that no seams are visible. The edges of the belt can be made angle. The Mexican costume belt is not sewn up to the end so that it can be turned out on the front side. The remaining segment is closed with an internal seam, carefully so that no threads are visible.
DIY sombrero
For such a New Year's outfit, the boy can pick up a wide hat in any store. A lot of them are sold for the holiday, as are caps for Santa Claus. Chinese industry is doing great before the holidays. But the hat does not always fit alongside, especially when you need a Mexican costume.
The first option for making sombrero with your own hands will be the following: you can buy a black hat and sew a red satin ribbon in a circle. Then the edge of the sombrero can be sheathed with a ribbon with pompons, picking it up also in red. Complete with a bright vest or poncho and a red belt, such a hat will look great.
Colored Paper Stripes Sombrero
To make such a spectacular Mexican hat, you need to prepare sets of tissue colored paper of the brightest colors. As a basis, you can take a real straw hat, which is available in almost every cabinet. The height of the central part of the headgear can be increased due to the truncated cone cut out of foam rubber. It needs to be glued, and it is better to grab it with stitches with a needle and a strong thread. Then we start decorating. Strips of paper are cut into the same width and the edges are densely cut into "noodles." Then layer-by-layer paste the whole surface of the hat with paper. You can sew it.
Work begins with the headgear fields and ends at the top. The inner part is left unchanged so that the hat does not rub the skin of the child.
Homemade hat
If you don’t have a hat at home, or if it’s new and beautiful, which you don’t want to turn, even for a while into a sombrero, do not worry. You can perfectly make such a stylish ethnic hat for a Mexican costume with your own hands. To do this, you need a sheet of Whatman paper, thick PVA glue or an adhesive gun, colored paper. A circle is drawn on a piece of paper in the center. After trying on the head, it can be adjusted. Then, using the compass or a round object (for example, a pan cover), draw the outer contours of the hat. The result was a wheel-shaped blank. The next step is to fold the cone around the boy’s head and the edges are fastened with a stapler. The bottom is cut in a straight line, the top of the figure is also cut. This cone is inserted from the inside of the “wheel” and glued from the inside using PVA glue and paper strips. A round lid is cut out and glued to the top of the truncated cone.
It remains to cut a long strip-rim for sombrero and attach it with strips of paper. To make the hat bright, it must be painted with gouache or decorated using the application method. To keep the hat on the child’s head, you can thread a thin rope at the base to match the color of the coloring.
As you can see, it’s not difficult to make a Mexican costume with your own hands, you only need to show a desire and spend a couple of hours making the dress, but on the matinee the boy will have the most spectacular and bright costume, and the minimum amount of money will be spent.