Carnival costume Harlequin: description, patterns

Every child is looking forward to the matinee, where he can meet with Grandfather Frost and Snow Maiden, tell them a rhyme and receive a long-awaited gift. But how to come to such a celebration and dance near the Christmas tree without a carnival costume?

Therefore, on the eve of traditional celebrations, parents are puzzled by the search for a beautiful image for their child. Today, children's New Year costumes can be found both in specialized stores and in the market. But the whole problem is that sometimes a conceived image is very difficult to implement, because the sale simply does not have the appropriate outfit. Or even if the suit of the right character gets caught, then it does not quite match the desired one.

Now more often girls are sold princess costumes for girls, and pirates and superheroes are relevant for boys. What to do if you need a Harlequin costume? There is only one solution. You should go to the fabric store and purchase the material to make the Harlequin suit yourself.

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First of all, before you start creating a dress, you should determine its main elements. Children's costume Harlequin for a boy can be created on the basis of panties and sweaters or overalls, and for girls it is better to sew a dress or skirt with a jacket. It is worth noting that on the back you can draw beautiful tails with buboes, which will make the outfit more interesting. However, if the child is very small, it will be much more comfortable for him in overalls, rather than with an elastic band from the panties on his stomach.

To complete the image on the head, you need to sew a cap or hat with two or more hanging horns, on each of which hitch bells or bubbles. Also a great option will be a wig. New Year costume Harlequin will look great with a fun hairdress from rain or from artificial curly fibers.

Another integral element of the image is a beautiful collar with flounces or with a jagged edge. The final image of the detail is the strips on a suit of contrasting colors, beautiful cuffs on sleeves and trousers, as well as Czechs with thematic decoration.

Choice of colors

As a rule, the Harlequin costume is colorful and fervent using red, blue, yellow and green colors. No less interesting are the black and white versions. However, this is not a reason to use only the colors stated above. The main thing is to beautifully combine the shades with each other so that the outfit comes out cheerful and harmonious.

How correctly to distribute colors in the image of Harlequin? Carnival costumes for recreating this character are usually made with multi-colored trousers and with an opposite arrangement of shades on the sleeves. For the shelves of the sweatshirts use the brightest light color. Dark shades can be added to the multi-layered collar and cuffs, and also make buboons for the cap.

For example, a Harlequin suit can be with a yellow base (back and chest), one leg is blue, and the other - green, sleeves - the same way, only in a different order. Red, crimson or purple can be added to the collar finish, make from it buboons for the cap, having issued a combination of blue with green and yellow.

Choice of materials

In the stores of fabrics today so wide a range that you can get lost. And then you should remember the main rule: the fabric should be bright and shiny. In this case, polyester is excellent, which is used for making linings, as well as satin and crepe-satin. The only thing, pay attention, that the polyester was not too thin or translucent. These materials are fairly simple to process.

To process the collar, neck, cuffs, the base of the cap, you will need an oblique bake. It is not necessary to take it for each element of the image of different colors. On the contrary, one color of the processed edge will make the product intact, even if the sleeves, for example, are made of yellow material, and the legs are made of green, and the red bike is perfect for them. Will leave a fine outfit Harlequin. Carnival costumes are so good that you can make the most simple processing, such as edging ribbon, which does not require special skills and knowledge.

Open the base of the suit

How to build a pattern-base to sew a Harlequin costume with your own hands? First of all, you should measure the child's parameters. The following values are required for the job:

• The waist, hips and chest.
• Height from shoulder to chest.
• The width of the back.
• Shoulder width.
• Length from shoulder to waist and up to hips along back and forward.
• The length from the waist to the floor along the side of the leg.
• The length of the sleeve.
• The length of the inner seam of the trousers.
• Circumference of the neck.
• Volume of the head.

Next, you need to take a newspaper, a piece of wallpaper or a building film and move all the measurements, making a drawing.

Building a pattern of dress and shirt

First of all, you need to make the main grid, which is a rectangle with additional horizontal stripes. The vertical side of the quadrilateral should be equal to the length from the shoulder to the thigh line, and the vertical side to the half of the breast volume. On the basis of this drawing you can find a dress or shirt for Harlequin.

Suits for children are sewn much easier than clothes for adults, because for the figure of the child is not required to make darts. Therefore, the whole construction is reduced to drawing in the drawing of sufficient depth the armhole and throat, as well as the necessary width of the backrest and the transmission.

So, first of all it is necessary to define on the drawing, where there will be a front shelf, and where a back. Next, draw a neck and determine the width of the shoulder, lowering the edge of the line by 1.5 cm from the upper border of the rectangle.

After the breast line, lay the back width on one side, then calculate the area for the armhole. For this purpose, ½ breast volume measurement is divided into 4 parts. The received value (+2 cm) is marked in the drawing, starting from the point that determines the width of the backrest. The remaining distance is the width of the transmission. The lobes are made round, lowering from the extreme point of the line of the shoulder of the back, then through the line of the chest and to the front border of the shoulder.

Sleeve construction

The most difficult stage of the construction of the workpiece is the production of a template for the sleeve. For him it will be necessary to fold the patterns of the gear and the backrest along the shoulder seams and to delineate the boundary of the pellet. Next, the top is lifted by one and a half centimeters and the circle is finished, part of which is the pellet. At the bottom of the resulting figure, draw a line that should be equal to the circumference of the top of the arm or the conceived width of the sleeve. The main thing is that after the construction the sleeve should correspond to the armhole.

On this all the basic constructions of a shirt or a dress can be considered finished. Then it's just about modeling. It will create an interesting outfit.

Modeling of a shirt and a dress

The costume of Harlequin for a boy can be with two tails, descending to the floor from the back of the shirt, like on a frock coat. To do this, in the drawing-workpiece, you need to finish these elements, and then cut out of the fabric. Also, the top of the suit can be made flared or shortened with a moon-shaped hem in the front.

When modeling the sleeve, it can be made ¾ in length or vice versa - with a large overlap. Also, it can be flipped to the bottom and "planted" on a narrow cuff. Look great sleeves with a rubber band bottom.

That the suit was easy to put on the child and not to spoil the put on make-up or the adjusted hairdress, it is better to make it on a lightning. You can sew it both in front and back. In this case, the buckle itself can be made a colorful element of the decor, if you pick up a zipper with rhinestones, original painting or spraying.

Sewing the original Harlequin costume with your own hands is not so difficult as it may seem. A little imagination and zeal - and an excellent outfit is ready.

Building a pattern of panties

To produce panties, a pattern for cutting is also required. Build it is not difficult. And the product can be without an external side cut. To do this, you need to measure the girth of the upper leg. As a rule, this value is more than half the measure of hip circumference. It is laid horizontally in the drawing with respect to the whole template. After from both edges downwards at a right angle lines equal to the measure of the inner seam of the trousers +5 cm, then close at the bottom of the line in a rectangle.

Further on the horizontal sides are the middle and perpendicular, equal to the value of the outer seam of the trousers + 5 cm for the treatment of the bottom and + 5 cm for the processing of the top of the panties. From the paved vertical in both directions measure at half the measure of "hip circumference" + 2 or 3 cm for free fit. From the points obtained, the middle (front and back) seams of the panties are lowered, rounding the lines when going over to the horizontal measurement "girth of the upper leg". Further from the boundary of the lateral outer seam to the middle forward, smoothly cut the border of the detail by 2 cm for a correct fit along the waist line. All, the template is ready to go!

Collar and cuff decoration

The outfit will look much more interesting if you complement it with a beautiful multi-layered collar-type collar. For its manufacture, spiral strips are cut from the fabric. On the inner cut they are collected on an oblique bake, and over the outer cut or processed with a zigzag. For greater effect in the seam, you can sew a hard line, then the collar will stand upright. By the same principle, you can make beautiful shuttlecocks for processing the bottom of sleeves and pants. For these elements use all the colors involved in tailoring the outfit. And that each layer was well visible, the stripes should be made of different widths. The costume of Harlequin for a boy with such frills will look very cheerful and fervent.

Decoration of the hood and Czechs

The cap can also be considered an integral part of the outfit. The simplest version is sewed from two parts with a base equal to the volume of the head, and two beautifully curved horns. In order for the product to hold the shape well, it can be duplicated with a hard fat or collar fabric, and fill the horns with sintepon.

Children's New Year costumes should be thought through to the smallest detail. That's why even Czechs need to be beaten qualitatively. For them, you can specially make buboes or bows and sew to an elastic band.