Carnival costume Harlequin: description, patterns

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

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

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's costumes can be found both in specialized stores and on the market. But the whole problem is that sometimes the conceived image is very difficult to bring to life, since there is simply no corresponding outfit on sale. Or even if the costume of the desired character comes across, then it does not quite match the desired one.

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

Image details

First of all, before starting to create an outfit, you should determine its main elements. A children's Harlequin costume for a boy can be created on the basis of pants and a sweater or overalls, and for girls it is better to sew a dress or a skirt with a sweater. It is worth noting that on the back it will be possible to arrange beautiful tails with buboes, which will make the outfit more interesting. However, if the child is very small, he will be much more comfortable in overalls than with an elastic band from 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, attach bells or buboes to each of them. A wig would also be a great option. New Year's Harlequin costume will look great with a fun hairstyle made of rain or artificial curly fibers.

Another integral element of the image is a beautiful collar with flounces or with a scalloped edge. Completing the look are patches on the suit in contrasting colors, pretty cuffs on the sleeves and legs, and themed caps.

Choosing colors

As a rule, the Harlequin costume is made colorful and perky using red, blue, yellow and green colors. Black and white options look no less interesting. However, this is not at all a reason to use only the colors stated above. The main thing is to beautifully combine shades with each other so that the outfit comes out cheerful and harmonious.

How to correctly distribute the colors in the image of Harlequin? Carnival costumes to recreate this character are usually made with multi-colored legs and opposite shades on the sleeves. For the shelves of sweaters use the brightest light color. Dark shades can be added to the layered collar and cuffs, and can also be used to make buboes for a hat.

For example, a Harlequin suit can have a yellow base (back and chest), one leg is blue and the other is green, the sleeves are the same, only in a different order. Red, crimson or purple can be added to the collar trim, made into buboes for a hat, making a combination of blue with green and yellow.

Selection of materials

The fabric stores today have such a wide range that you can get lost. And here you should remember the main rule: the fabric should be bright and shiny. In this case, polyester is excellent, which is used to make the lining, as well as satin and crepe satin. The only thing to note is that the polyester is not too thin or translucent. These materials are quite easy to process.

For processing the collar, neck, cuffs, the base of the cap, you will need a slanting inlay. It is not at all necessary to take it for each element of the image of a different color. On the contrary, one color of the finished edge will make the product whole, even if the sleeves, for example, are made of yellow material, and the legs are made of green, red trim is perfect for them. A beautiful Arlekino outfit will come out. Carnival costumes are good because here you can do the most simple processing, such as edging with a ribbon, which does not require special skills and knowledge.

Open the basics of the costume

How to build a base pattern to sew a Harlequin costume with your own hands? First of all, you should measure the parameters of the child. To work, you need the following values:

• Waist, hips and bust.
• Height from shoulder to bust.
• Back width.
• Shoulder width.
• Length from shoulder to waist to hips back and front.
• Length from waist to floor on the side of the leg.
• Sleeve length.
• Inseam leg length.
• Neck circumference.
• Head volume.

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

Building a dress and shirt pattern

First of all, you need to make the main grid, which is a rectangle with additional horizontal stripes. The vertical side of the quadrangle should be equal to the length from the shoulder to the hip line, and the vertical side should be half the volume of the chest. Based on this drawing, it will be possible to cut out a dress or shirt for Harlequin.

Costumes for children are sewn much easier than clothes for adults, because for the figure of a child it is not required to make tucks. Therefore, the whole construction comes down to drawing on the drawing sufficient depth of the armhole and neck, as well as the required width of the back and front.

So, first of all, you should determine in the drawing where the front shelf will be, and where the back. Next, draw the neck and determine the width of the shoulder, lowering the edge of the line by 1.5 cm from the upper borderrectangle.

After that, along the chest line, the width of the back is set aside on one side, then the area for the armhole is calculated. To do this, ½ measurements of the volume of the chest are divided into 4 parts. The resulting value (+2 cm) is marked on the drawing, starting from the point that determines the width of the back. All remaining distance is front width. The armhole is made rounded, lowering from the extreme point of the shoulder line of the back, then through the line of the chest and to the front border of the shoulder.

Building a sleeve

The most difficult step in building a blank is making a template for a sleeve. For it, you will need to fold the front and back patterns along the shoulder seams and outline the border of the okat. Next, the top is raised by one and a half centimeters and a circle is drawn, part of which is an okat. A line is drawn along the bottom of the resulting figure, which should be equal to the girth of the top of the arm or the intended width of the sleeve. The main thing is that after construction, the sleeve matches the armhole.

On this, all the basic construction of a shirt or dress can be considered finished. Then it's just a matter of modeling. It will allow you to create an interesting outfit.

Modeling shirts and dresses

Harlequin suit for a boy can be with two tails going down to the floor from the back of the shirt, like on a tailcoat. To do this, on the drawing-blank, it is necessary to finish these elements, and then cut them out of the fabric. Also, the top of the suit can be made flared or shortened with a moon-shaped hem in front.

When modeling a sleeve, it can bemake it ¾ long or vice versa - with a large overlap. It can also be flared to the bottom and “planted” on a narrow cuff. Wide sleeves with ribbed hem look great.

To make the costume easy to put on a child and not spoil the applied makeup or polished hair, it is better to make it with a zipper. It can be sewn in both front and back. At the same time, the fastener itself can be made a colorful element of decor if you choose a zipper with rhinestones, original coloring or spraying.

Sewing an original Harlequin costume with your own hands is not so difficult as it might seem. A little imagination and diligence - and a great outfit is ready.

Building a panty pattern

For the manufacture of panties, you will also need a template for cutting. It won't be difficult to build it. Moreover, the product can be without an external side cut. To do this, you need to measure the circumference of the upper leg. As a rule, this value is more than half the measure of the hip circumference. It is laid on the drawing in a horizontal direction relative to the entire template. After that, lines equal to the measurement of the inner leg seam +5 cm are lowered down at a right angle from both edges, after which they are closed along the bottom of the line into a rectangle.

Next, find the middle on the horizontal sides and draw a perpendicular equal to the size of the outer leg seam + 5 cm for processing the bottom and + 5 cm for processing the top of the panties. From the laid vertical in both directions, half the measure of the “hip circumference” + 2 or 3 cm is measured for a free fit. From received pointslower the middle (front and back) seams of the panties, rounding the lines when moving to the horizontal of the measurement “girth of the upper leg”. Further, from the border of the side outer seam to the middle front one, you should smoothly mow the border of the part by 2 cm for a proper fit along the waistline. Everything, the template is ready to go!

Collar and cuff design

The outfit will look much more interesting if you complement it with a beautiful multi-layered frilled collar. For its manufacture, spiral strips are cut out of the fabric. On the inner cut they are collected on an oblique inlay, and on the outer cut they are overlaid or processed with a zigzag. For greater effect, a stiff fishing line can be sewn into the seam, then the collar will come out standing. By the same principle, you can make beautiful frills for processing the bottom of the sleeves and legs. For these elements, all the colors involved in tailoring the outfit are used. And in order for each layer to be clearly visible, the stripes need to be made of different widths. Harlequin costume for a boy with such frills will look very cheerful and provocative.

Decoration of the cap and Czechs

The cap can also be considered an integral element of the outfit. The simplest version is sewn from two parts with a base equal to the volume of the head and two beautifully curved horns. In order for the product to keep its shape well, it can be duplicated with hard tulle or collar fabric, and the horns stuffed with padding polyester.

Children's New Year's costumes should be thought out to the smallest detail. That is why even the Czechs need to be beaten with high quality. For them, buboes or bows can be specially made and sewn to an elastic band.