Autumn is not a reason to be sad. Especially if there is a ball or carnival coming up. Or you need to play the role of Golden Autumn at a matinee in kindergarten. All that remains is to take care of a bright outfit, which with its beauty will resemble this generous time of year.
Making an Autumn costume with your own hands
Buying an Autumn costume today is not a problem. Online stores are full of advertisements for the sale of clothing for carnivals and all kinds of holidays. But it will be much more interesting to come up with your own image, and then make a costume with your own hands. After all, you don’t even have to spend money on decorations. Nature generously and generously gives us its jewels. We will tell you how to make a costume for an adult.
Materials and tools for work
The preparation of such an outfit involves the use of various improvised, and sometimes “from-the-ground” natural materials. You'll have to go to the park or forest to get it. Various brightly colored leaves, berries, pine cones, and flowers will be useful for this work. The costume can be complemented with original accessories: rowan beads, a maple wreath or a hat with artificial fruit.. They are lighter than natural ones, and it is much easier to adjust them into place.
To independently create a Golden Autumn costume, you will need the following materials and tools:
- Fabric or finished dress.
- Meter tape.
- Glue.
- Scissors.
- Needle and thread.
- Colored paper.
If an adult costume is prepared in advance, then the idea with natural material may not be suitable. The leaves simply won’t survive until the holiday. Then it’s worth stopping at samples made of multi-colored paper or fabric.
Important! It is better to starch or gelatinize the fabric, which will make it tough.
All that remains is to dry and iron. And then, attaching a sheet template, cut out the required number.
Costume base
To create an outfit, you can use one of the options.
From ready-made clothes
You can also use a ready-made dress as a basis for a future costume.. It doesn't have to be a new outfit. Old, out-of-fashion clothes will also play a role, which you won’t mind getting dirty with glue and stripes. It’s worth digging through your bins; many women often put irrelevant things somewhere on the top shelf. And among these “riches” you may find the right option.
An old dress, skirt and blouse, tunic, even a trouser suit, skillfully decorated with autumn symbols, will be a hit at the holiday. Here are a few ideas from the “what the eye fell on” category.
- A bright skirt with leaves pasted on plus a plain white T-shirt. You can wear beads made from rowan berries and hawthorn around your neck. The autumn costume is complemented by a fluffy wreath of leaves, flowers and the same berries.
- Regular dress plus colorful shawl, onto which small autumn flowers and leaves are glued.A tall kokoshnik with the same leaves and flowers is placed on the head.
- A small narrow dress is complemented on top by a wide robe made of two layers of organza, between which leaves are glued. The face is covered with a Venetian gilded mask with bright autumn motifs.
- Stylish ocher trouser suit, decorated at the waist with a bouquet of leaves and flowers, plus a small hat with a veil and autumn decorations. The outfit is complemented with a small handbag made of natural material.
We pay attention to things of the desired color. Clothes of all shades of yellow, orange, and red will be used. If there will be a lot of decorations, let it be brown and beige. After all, autumn is distinguished by a variety of color palettes.
Important! The base and decorations should not merge in color, it is better to make them contrasting: beige base - bright red and orange leaves.
How to sew a suit
Of course, it’s good to be able to sew like a famous couturier or, at worst, like an ordinary dressmaker. But if your tailoring skills end at the button sewing phase, don’t despair. The Internet is full of advice, where you can also choose a simple pattern for yourself. It’s easy to sew, for example, a cute hoodie a la Alla Borisovna of the 80s. Its pattern is quite simple.
- Take a piece of fabric 3 m long and 1.5 m wide, fold it in half twice.
- Cut out the neck. To do this, we retreat 15 cm from the corner. We process the neckline with bias tape to match the main fabric.
- The lower part of the cape can be rounded at the sides. And in the upper part, sew two inclined lines for the sleeves.
- All that remains is to process all the cut edges, glue on the decorations, and the base cape for the costume is ready.
How to decorate the base
To decorate your costume, you should stock up on a large number of autumn gifts.There is no need to be afraid to go overboard with decoration. This is exactly the case when everything will be in moderation. It’s not for nothing that autumn is considered the most generous time of the year: here you can find bright colors, mushrooms and berries, and harvesting. Here are some options.
- Leaves can be pasted evenly over the entire dress or tunic. Or decorate only the hem and neck with them.
- Will create a stylish image small autumn bouquets attached to the waist and shoulder.
- It will be interesting to look at a skirt turned into a continuous leafy carpet, or a blouse whose shirtfront is red with crimson and gold.
- Pictures with autumn patterns can be drawn on a suit, and then repeated with natural materials.
We complement the Autumn costume with a headdress
A hairstyle decorated with berries and autumn leaves looks impressive. But you will have to spend a lot of time and skill to create it, especially if your hair is long. A fancy headdress would be a good replacement. Whether it will be a cap, a crown or a wreath depends on desire and skill.
cap
The basis can be any knitted hat of a suitable color.
- We cut out maple and birch leaves of different sizes from paper. We place the largest of them in the center, the rest are glued in several rows around the perimeter.
- It will look original and straw hat. It is decorated with leaves, berries, flowers, artificial fruits.
- Looks stylish decoration in the form of a small bibi hat with autumn decor. A small veil to match the dress will be an addition to it.
Crown, wreath
A head hoop is suitable for making a crown.. It is wrapped or trimmed with bright ribbon, and then the prepared parts are glued on: leaves, cones, flowers.
An autumn suit based on a sundress looks good paired with kokoshnik or wreath. For the latter, you need to collect large maple leaves, soft and clean. We tie cuttings of several leaves at once and secure them with thread. We attach all subsequent leaves to each other in the same way. You can weave bright flowers, twigs with berries. We tie wide ribbons to the ends of the wreath.
Advice! For reliability, it is best to secure the wreath on a hoop. This will help maintain the shape of the headdress and prevent leaf fall during the holiday.
Autumn Mask
Those heading to the Fall Carnival will definitely need a mask. You can purchase it in an online store or come up with it yourself. You can buy a simple mask and paint it in one of the autumn tones.
The half mask is made of cardboard. Bright leaves, flowers, berries are glued onto it. But carnival also requires brilliance. Add gold foil details, ribbons, beads, veil.
Tips for Making an Autumn Costume
- Autumn leaves are the simplest way to decorate a teacher's outfit. But a bouquet collected in the evening may lose its attractiveness by the morning. That's why WithYou should use the freshly collected leaves and immediately attach them to the dress.
- Can spray the leaves with hairspray, This will give them shine and help them stay fresh a little longer.
- Leaves can also be dried. They are laid out with paper and placed under a press on top. You can also use a book: lay out what you need between the pages, close it and set it aside.
Important! The natural drying process of the leaves will take at least two weeks.
- You can speed up drying by using a hot iron.. The leaves are laid out between old newspapers and ironed on top. All. The blanks for the dress or crown are ready. But remember, dried leaves are too fragile; you can fix them with hairspray or a special liquid.
Photos of the teacher who has turned into a beautiful Golden Autumn will become a wonderful memory of the holiday.
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