How to make the brightest and most beautiful hussar costume?

Many people have a question about how to make a costume for an event like carnival or masquerade. An excellent idea can serve as a hussar costume, which includes doloman, chikchir and a shako. Doloman is a jacket embroidered with a gold or gold cord.

Creating a dolman

This jacket should preferably be made of red or blue material. To do this, you need to print a special pattern, increasing the details at the same time to the required size so that they are right for you or the person for whom the hussar's carnival costume is sewn. When cutting a fabric, small allowances of about one centimeter should be made. It is necessary to fold the front sides of such details as back and front, with each other. Then it is necessary to stitch the side seams and the seams of the shoulder side, as well as the middle seam, located on the back. All the seams resulting from the work should be swept. The sleeves of the future jacket must be folded along so that the front side looks down. After that, they need to sew and process all edges. Then sew the sleeves to the main part of the dolman.

The collar details must be folded so that their faces are facing each other. After this, they must be stitched, then turned inside out and processed with an iron. The collar is sewn on the obverse of the dolman in the throat section. Then you need to sew buttons to the dolman.

The golden lace should be stitched along the lines that are marked on the pattern. To the ends of the lace do not crumble, you should sing them or zigzag. Well, what costume hussar without epaulettes? Details of such an element should be folded in pairs in such a way that they face looked inward. Then it must be struck so that there is a hole for eversion. Carefully having done this procedure, it is necessary to sew this hole with a secret seam. Epaulettes are sewn in the shoulder area. Also they can be decorated with braid of gold color.

Creation of trousers for a hussar

Chikchiry - an element that enters the hussar costume, which is a trousers. The beginning of their creation is no different from sewing a dolman. Also, using the pattern, cut out the necessary elements from the fabric. Then, having combined the cut out details in pairs so that the front sides were directed towards each other, it is necessary to stitch all the seams. After turning them inside out, the sides should be attached to the lamp. In front of the trousers should be made a "hussar knot". After stitching the middle seams, it is necessary to sweep all edges. At the top of the trousers you need to create a kuliska, in which the elastic will be inserted.

If there were no black shoes among the shoes, then you can build bootlegs. To do this, you need to cut out of the fabric special parts, applied with a pattern. In several places of the parts obtained, it is necessary to attach Velcro that will hold the structure.

How to create a shako

The last element that has any hussar costume is a shako, or a headpiece. With the help of a pattern, you need to cut out the necessary parts from cardboard. At the same time one should be guided by the size of the head, on which the shako will be worn. The parts are fixed using a glue solution. The color is applied by means of gouache. It is necessary to glue the main part of the carved cylinder. Then bend special denticles to the bottom and insert them inside the cylinder made earlier. The entire structure should be glued to the side walls. Then those denticles that are on the peak, should be bent upwards, inserting them into the main part from the underside and gluing from the inside. On the visor, you should fix the gold braid or lace, at the ends of which you need to fasten the buttons.

At this costume is fully ready. You can make both an adult and a children's costume of a hussar. The main thing is that enough zeal and patience.