A beautiful carnival outfit will surely please the child. Dances, contests, gifts, Grandfather Frost and Snegurochka will not be so fun and memorable if the child does not wear a carnival costume for the New Year's party. Today it is not customary to dress children in bears, bunnies and chanterelles, such images are extremely rare to see at a holiday. And this is quite logical, because children's heroes have also changed. If Cheburashka was popular before, today it was replaced by such heroes as Spider-Man, Winx fairies, Catwoman, SpongeBob and other characters of today's popular cartoons. An angel costume for a girl will be quite modern and stylish. To create it, a minimum of time and money is required. It can be a costume of a white angel or black, depending on which side the child prefers.
Angel image details
First of all, in order to create a costume, you need to determine the basic elements of the image of this character. Of course, these are wings, a halo and a beautiful dress. These are the main details. You can also use additional accessories to complete the look.
The creation of each of these elements needs to be considered in more detail in order to understand how to make an angel costume for a girl with your own hands.
Costume Materials
In the choice of materials for clothing, the age of the child plays a decisive role. An angel costume for a girl’s child can have an original tulle skirt, for older age you can use satin fabric, velvet, velor and even expensive brocade.
For wings, in addition to the main material, a sealant is required. As such, hard tulle in combination with sintepon, collar adhesive fabric, non-woven fabric and a more troublesome option - corset bones are suitable.
The carnival costume of an angel must have a halo for greater effect. It can be made from wire entwined with Christmas tinsel.
Choosing the color in which the angel costume for the girl will be performed with her own hands, you can step back from the usual white or black. A pink angel or an angel in a golden dress will look pretty cute. Of course, you should not chase expensive high-quality fabrics, since the New Year's matinee will pass very quickly, and next year it is unlikely that the child will want to wear the same outfit again.
How to make wings?
At first glance, it may seem that the wings are made very difficult, but, firstly, this is not so, and secondly, without them there will be absolutely the wrong angel costume. Children's attire should be thought out to the smallest detail, so the wings should not interfere with the child's movement. There should not be any fastenings on belts, as is customary for adult costumes with wings. It is better to sew these image elements to the back of a dress or blouse. But so that they do not retract, they need to be made as light as possible.
Given the width of the child’s back, draw one wing on a piece of paper so that it protrudes slightly beyond the girl’s pen. Next, this template needs to be transferred to hard tulle, synthetic winterizer and the main fabric. From the last material should be cut 2 parts in mirror image.
After all the elements are cut, they need to be folded in the following order: two parts from the main fabric face inward, on top of one of them - tulle, and after - synthetic winterizer. Next, this design must be fixed with needles or swept away. Then you should lay a line along the contour of the parts from the side of the facial tissue and leave an unclosed section of 5 centimeters in size at the attachment to the back, through which the wing will be turned. At this stage, the element is turned on the face and the machine line is laid, repeating the alleged contours of the feathers. The second wing is made similarly, but in mirror image.
For greater effect, the wing can be embroidered with stones, pearl beads, sequins and even sew swan fluff.
How to make a halo of wire?
Nimbus is an important element of the image. An angel costume for a girl without this detail will not be so spectacular. In order to make it, there are several options. The easiest one is known to many since childhood, when mothers twisted crowns from wire and wound the frame around the rain. For this type of accessory, you will need to make two circles of wire along the volume of the child’s head, connect them together by a vertical mount with a height of about 10 centimeters. At the same time, the mount must be reliable enough so that the halo does not bend. After the frame is ready, it can be decorated with a rain of gold or white, depending on the main tone in which the angel costume for the girl is made.
Nimbus on the rim
Also a good option for a halo on a hair band. To create it, you will also need wire. It will be fastened in two places: on the rim and not very high above the very head of the child. It can also be decorated with rain or decorated with satin ribbons. For greater effect, rhinestones or beads can be glued to it, which will give the details an exquisite flicker and shine.
If you do not want to work with a halo, you can always stop at the option with a floral wreath. It should be made in delicate shades, so as not to dazzle much on the child’s head.
Design options for basic clothing
It is believed that the angel should be in a long dress with flowing long sleeves. Such a robe will really look beautiful, but you can deviate from generally accepted ideas. The New Year's angel costume will look chic if a long-sleeved T-shirt and a tulle skirt are used as basic clothing . To make this simpler than simple, you will need elastic in accordance with the volume of the child’s tummy and about 3 meters of white soft tulle. The main materials are cut into strips 10 centimeters wide and simply knotted with elastic.
You can also sew a tutu skirt out of whole tulle without cutting it into elements, but simply cut out cuts equal in width to the length of the skirt, sew them together and make a drawstring for the elastic band along the edge. After that, it remains only to thread the gum with a pin. Both the first and second options look simply charming.
If this option does not fit, then you can stay on the same long dress.
Dress patterns for an angel
Sewing a dress is easy enough. You will need to measure the figure of the child: the length from the wrist to the wrist through the neck with arms extended to the sides, the length from the shoulder to the floor, the volume of the chest and waist.
After measurements, you can begin to develop patterns. It can be built directly on fabric. In this case, the width of the material should be no less than the measure “from wrist to wrist”, and the length should correspond to two measures “from shoulder to floor”. So, the fabric is folded twice across, at the fold note the measure "length from wrist to wrist". In the center of the segment, make a mark and draw a neck and a slit so that the head passes well into the hole. After, focusing on this center, a half-girth of the chest is placed below the bend by about 20-25 cm, and even lower - a half-girth of the waist. From the extreme points of the chest mark, cuts for the sleeves are removed to the sides, and side seams should be down, which should be flared as much as possible.
After these manipulations, it remains to cut out the details, process the seams with an overlock and a machine and the neck with a slanting inlay.
Optional accessories
As additional elements of the costume, you can use completely different and even unexpected elements. For example, in combination with a tutu skirt, fur leggings to the knees will simply look wonderful. Leather bandages above the elbows will fit perfectly on your hands. The image of an angel can be made somewhat hooligan or, conversely, charmingly sweet and romantic. It all depends on the preferences of the child. If a character holds a bow and arrows in his hand, then automatically he will become a cute Cupid.
It is no secret that girls love various rings, beads and bracelets, and these elements will not be superfluous in such a dress and even, on the contrary, will give it luxury. The main thing is to choose everything in tone so that the angel does not turn into a fairy or a sorceress.