Any girl loves the New Year holiday and dreams of being the most beautiful and the most elegant at the carnival. By the New Year, costumes of all kinds of fairy-tale characters, animals and birds, gnomes and Snow Maidens appear in stores. In Moscow, an oriental beauty costume can be bought for about 4000-5000 rubles.
Unfortunately, not all parents can allocate such an amount for the purchase, given that this is one-time clothing for a child. But you can create a costume for your baby with your own hands. For example, this could be a costume of an oriental beauty. It's not that difficult to sew.
Materials
Before you start sewing a costume, you need to review photos, drawings, films, where you can clearly see what the New Year's outfit that needs to be made for the child consists of. All oriental beauties wear wide trousers (shalvars) made of light flowing material and a flirty top embroidered with beads or rhinestones.
Having looked at the most acceptable and not too complicated option, you can bring to life an oriental fairy tale for your beauty, who will be a real Scheherazade at the carnival.
The selection of fabrics and accessories is not so large. But nevertheless, for a children's New Year's costume of an oriental beauty, you need to purchase or find in your bins transparent fabrics of different colors. It can be chiffon, thick silk, nylon or crepe.
You can use a pareo, as it is always made of thin material. The combination of colors should be harmonious. Be sure to choose threads that match the color of the fabric, braid, fringe, rhinestones, and decorations in the form of coins with a hole in the middle.
Fabric selection
The Silk Roads of the East still live, albeit in legends and traditions. But you and I need precisely ancient, beautiful Arabic fabrics to create an Aladdin costume.
You will need:
- silk,
- brocade;
- velours;
- crepe satin;
- velvet.
In a word, everything related to the idea of luxury and wealth. Aladdin's New Year's costume should be decorated with the most magnificent ornaments of oriental vegetation. You can use brocade or lace trim for this.
We must not forget that in an Aladdin costume for a boy it is worth using bright colors that combine with each other. For example, red and blue or purple and yellow.
Costume details
A costume for a girl can be made in two versions. The upper part of the costume is a top or blouse, the lower part is harem pants or a floor-length skirt, arm ruffles, head decoration and monisto. The costume will look colorful if it is decorated with beads or artificial pearls. The head of an oriental beauty is decorated with either a fez-like cap, decorated with a veil, or a monisto.
You can make beautiful armbands from chiffon or nylon. The beauty should wear shoes in the form of ballet flats, but with curled toes. If you find jewelry such as all kinds of bracelets, you can put them on your hands and ankles. The main thing is more shine.
It wouldn’t hurt to add a little cosmetics to your self-created children’s costume of an oriental beauty - shiny shadows, winged eyebrows and a bindi on the forehead. Your child will be irresistible at the carnival. And if someone asks you where you bought such a wonderful suit for your daughter, you can answer with satisfaction: “I sewed it myself!”
Fairy tale for a child
Every parent cherishes their child. And any adult is ready to give everything to see the happiness of their baby.
Boys (especially in preschool and elementary school) ask their parents to sew an Aladdin costume. It's easy and simple, although you will have to work hard.
But before you start creating, you and your baby should plunge into Arabian fairy tales. Feel the atmosphere of the East.
For starters, you can watch a movie about Aladdin or a cartoon. But we suggest (if the child is not familiar with these fairy tales) to tell him a fairy tale about himself.
To do this, you can follow this scheme:
- A boy lived in an amazingly beautiful country, but he was very unhappy: he was not allowed into the palace where a beautiful girl lived, whom he liked incredibly. They didn’t let him in because he didn’t have rich clothes.
- The boy decided to turn to the sage for help: how and where to get a robe embroidered with gold, trousers and a turban?
- The wise Arab helps: he points out the path-direction (mountains, underground caves, the seabed, where difficult trials await the boy). He also gives a magic staff to help, which will always provide a service.
- The boy copes with all the tasks, receives beautiful clothes as a reward, he is received with honors in the palace, and when he grows up, he marries a girl.
Top part
Usually, for the top of the costume, a top is taken, which is in the wardrobe of every little girl or teenager. Decorating it is what you need to do. It could be fringe, Christmas tree rain, beads. If you decide to make a top from fabric, satin and satin are suitable. The pattern can be made using a top or T-shirt.
The brighter and more colorful the upper part of the outfit is embroidered and decorated, the more beautiful the oriental costume will look. The top of a children's carnival costume of an oriental beauty looks beautiful with arm ruffles that can be cut from organza, nylon or chiffon.
The sleeve has the shape of a pipe. It also needs to be embroidered to make it shine, like the top of the suit. An elastic band is threaded into the sleeve at the top and bottom. Another elastic band needs to be stitched here as follows:
- divide the sleeve into 3 zones;
- Sew the elastic so that it is between one and two zones.
The sleeve is put on the arm so that the elastic separating one part is at the top.
What does it consist of?
A special costume for oriental dancing is called beledi, consists of three main parts:
- Bra or top;
- Fluffy skirt;
- Belt.
Costume with fringe
Many oriental costumes are additionally decorated with a translucent veil that covers the face, leaving only the eyes open. However, in order for the costume to resemble as much as possible an attire of oriental motifs, it should be qualitatively decorated with various stones, beads, rhinestones, beads and glass beads, as well as selecting characteristic colors. And the whole essence of the idea of the image is conveyed by belts embroidered with coins and monisto. There are characteristic colors in which the costumes are made:
- Golden;
- Red;
- Light blue;
- Green;
- White;
- Lilac.
Often, oriental costumes are decorated with handmade embroidery with a variety of patterns that perfectly highlight the curves of the female body.
Frank oriental outfit
How to sew harem pants (skirt)?
If you decide to sew a children's costume of an oriental beauty with trousers, then you need to take measurements of their length, waist circumference and leg circumference in its widest part. You can take a girl’s trousers and make a pattern using them, increasing the width of the trousers. To prevent the material from fraying, the side seams of the product should be processed. This can be a zigzag stitch or a regular stub stitch.
After this, the outer side seams on the trousers are sewn from the hip a few centimeters down and at the very bottom of the trouser leg. In several places along the unstitched side seam you need to grab and sew beads. The side seam itself can also be decorated, like the top: with sparkles, beads and rhinestones. Below, in the ankle area, there should be an elastic band. A wide elastic band is also threaded into the waistband of the trousers.
If you decide to make the lower part of a children's oriental beauty costume with a skirt, this element should be sewn from light flowing fabric. If the skirt is made of chiffon, then it should be all of this material. But rigid shiny organza can be combined with silk.
You can also use a pareo to make a skirt. But, regardless of whether the skirt is colored or plain, it should be embroidered with sequins. This is an oriental princess. If the skirt is short, you should wear leggings under it, which also need to be decorated.
Shoes
If a child has to dance just one dance in such a costume on a stage where the floor is warm enough, then you can do without shoes at all. However, it is better to sew the shoes yourself. To do this, you need to cut 3 parts for each leg. One is obtained by simply tracing the foot, and the other two should resemble a rectangular trapezoid with a very sharp angle. In this case, it is necessary that the long base is 10 cm more than half the length of the contour of the first part.
The trapezoids are sewn on the sides and connected to the third part to form a shoe. To make a curved sock, sew a piece of metal wire under the front seam using a zigzag, gather the fabric and fold it over. Sew an elastic band around the top edge, which will prevent the shoe from falling off your foot. They decorate it with beads and rhinestones.
Overlay belt for trousers
This detail is optional, but with an overhead belt the suit looks very nice. To do this, you need to take measurements of your waist and hips. You need to draw 2 parallel lines on paper. The upper one is 1/2 the waist volume, the lower one is 1/2 the hip volume. The middle of each line is selected.
Between the lines there should be the width of the belt. For example, 10 cm. At the midpoint of the belt on the hip line, you need to set aside 3-4 cm and smoothly connect it to the ends of the line. It turned out to be a toe. On the top line, also set aside 1-2 cm from the midpoint and smoothly connect it to the ends of the line.
Next, cut out the pattern and try it on your child. The belt should fit to the figure and not dangle. Then this part is cut onto the fabric and placed on the interlining or lining fabric. When ironed, the belt looks starched. Denim, which has a little stretch, is great for a belt.
Hooks are sewn on the back. The belt is decorated in the same way as the top and trousers. An interesting idea in making a belt would be to knit it from thick threads. It will look like a corset. And, when creating a crocheted belt, you can immediately knit the elements decorating the belt.
Pattern on paper
To sew a children's oriental beauty costume with your own hands, you don't need to make a pattern on paper. Experienced craftswomen can cut the material right away. If you don’t have enough experience, you need to first lay out paper patterns on fabric, as shown in the photo below.
If a skirt is sewn to a suit, it looks good when made of chiffon with godet wedges.
Hat and ballet shoes
A children's costume of an oriental beauty will be incomplete if Scheherazade does not have a fez-like cap decorated with a veil or a monist on her head. The fez hat can be made of felt or corduroy with a small rib. Knitters can knit a fez from thick yarn. It consists of a round bottom to which a strip is sewn along the entire length of the circle. Both the circle and the side part must be seated on a cushioning material with an adhesive base.
The cap should not be high. A veil made of chiffon or nylon is attached to it. The hat itself can be decorated with braid, beads, and fringe. You can decorate your head with a monist and strings of beads, also attaching a veil to them. As an option, a hair hoop with feathers attached in the center and decorated with sparkles will suit the costume of an oriental beauty.
Just a few words about shoes. An oriental beauty can wear ordinary ballet shoes. You can also glue a curved nose made of thick Whatman paper to the toe of the ballet shoes, which should be pre-filled with cotton wool. Cover this structure with satin.
Carpet plane
You can use pillowcases for sofa cushions as an example; there are a great variety of them in stores now. If it is too small, you can add a suitable fabric, hem it with fringe and add tassels. Remember that the fabric should be bright and shiny; you can embroider such an impromptu flying carpet with beads or sequins. Any ornate patterns or traditional Arabic, floral and geometric patterns will do.
Costume via online store
If you still decide not to fool yourself? You are probably talented in something else, but not in sewing? Then you should pay attention to the oriental beauty costume for children (St. Petersburg), which can be ordered through the online store. Before the New Year, you can easily purchase carnival costumes online, just by indicating the size of your princess.
The offered product is of high quality, made from natural materials. You should always remember that a child can spend quite a long time in this costume. Therefore, first of all, he should be comfortable.
