The New Year is ahead, and you want to create an atmosphere of magic and fairy tales at home. But a real fairy tale cannot take place without fairy-tale characters. And since big aunts and uncles are usually no less happy about the New Year than children, New Year’s costumes for adults are no less relevant than children’s snowflake bunnies.
Buying both children's and adult New Year's costumes is not difficult. And if earlier in the stores there were mainly children's outfits, today it is not at all difficult to buy a New Year's suit for an adult - it is such a sought-after and popular holiday attribute. Buying is, of course, the easiest way out, but a suit made with your own hands looks much more original (by the way, it is also less expensive). New Year's costumes for adults are easy to sew, you don't even need to sew them - you can take any clothes that you haven't worn for a long time and turn them into a New Year's carnival costume.
A simple New Year's Christmas tree costume can be made using old clothes, decorating them a little with tinsel and Christmas balls.
Next, we will offer several examples of creating New Year's costumes for adults with your own hands. If you have enthusiasm, a rich imagination and really loved fairy tales as a child, it will not be difficult for you to transform your entire family and even friends into magical heroes. Creating New Year's costumes for adults is so simple and exciting that you don't need to be a dressmaker, you don't even have to love needlework, you just need to love fairy tales and have a little inspiration before the holiday. So, New Year's costumes for adults - how easy it is to do.
What would it be like without the Snow Maiden?
The most popular costumes for the New Year are Father Frost and Snow Maiden
An adult young lady can create a New Year's Snow Maiden costume from her housecoat with her own hands, no matter how long it is or what material it is made of. The main thing is that it should be shades of blue or dark blue. Terry robe, silk, long, short - take any, sew or stick cotton wool or white fur on the hem of the robe and sleeve cuffs. It doesn’t even have to be exactly white (snow is not always white; sometimes under the light of the sun it takes on different shades, for example, the color of condensed milk). Here it all depends rather on which shade will be most advantageous in combination with the color of your robe.
You can make a wonderful Snow Maiden costume from an ordinary terry robe
If the robe is dark blue, then it is better to stick on snow-white fur and silver garlands or sparkles, but with light blue, softer warm shades, slightly creamy, will go better than boiling white ones. If you're not too lazy, add small rhinestones to the suit in a chaotic manner - you'll get a real winter attire. If the New Year's lighting is dim, the fairy tale will take place. You can make a Santa Claus costume for a man using approximately the same principle, only he will also need a cotton beard and a hat.
Santa Claus's robe can also be made from a regular robe, using fur for decoration
If you don’t have a robe or for some reason don’t want to wear one (after all, the Snow Maiden will look magical not only for children, but also for men), a dress will do, and not necessarily a blue one. An adult woman's New Year's Snow Maiden costume can be red - it doesn't matter. After all, from the decoration of the dress it will be clear that this is the Snow Maiden. And the red color looks even more impressive. The upcoming 2022 is the year of the Blue Water Tiger, and therefore it is better to choose the lucky colors of the year of the Tiger - blue, indigo, green, associated with the element of water. And also the colors of the Year of the Tiger - orange, yellow and gold, brown, white and black, personifying the animal itself. The most popular colors of the year will be turquoise, mint, aquamarine, and emerald.
A variety of dresses that can be complemented with accessories are perfect for a Snow Maiden costume.
For the image of the Slavic Snow Maiden, one cannot do without a traditional headdress - kokoshnik
New Year's costumes for adults can be on any theme (everything except boring ones, since the New Year is a time for fairy tales). Remember your favorite fairy-tale heroes from childhood and imagine, when you open your wardrobe, which of them can hide in the outfits hanging there: good fairies, Cinderellas, trolls, little animals, pirates, musketeers, gnomes, elves - everyone has the right to incarnate and come to life. When looking at things (don't forget to dig through those you no longer wear), try to imagine which character might have such a piece of clothing.
Photo tips on how to make a costume for the New Year with your own hands
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Musketeer hero from the film
A classic shirt and vest are the basis of a musketeer outfit, leaving the matter up to the cloak. For the cloak you need to find blue fabric. Sewing a raincoat is easy.
Attention! The front and back are large rectangular sections connected at the shoulders; the front rectangle is slightly shorter than the back.
When making a musketeer costume, you can build on the well-known images from the film
The corners of the hem need to be cut and rounded. The sleeves of the cloak are 2 more rectangular flaps, they are sewn to the shoulders and not sewn along the arm from below. The length should reach the wrist.
The sections are treated with bias tape, either to match the fabric, or to highlight it brightly, choosing a border of silver or gold color. The crosses on the front and back of the cloak can be made from opaque golden-colored lining fabric. Gluing them to the raincoat is very simple: using an iron and double-sided duplicator.
Well, what is a musketeer without a hat? So we find the hat. You can buy feathers for a hat at craft and decor stores to decorate it. The brim of the musketeer hat should be pulled towards the crown on the sides; fix the bend with glue or hem it.
Skirt sun
It's easy to cut. It is enough to select the material of the desired color, and you can start working. Experienced seamstresses draw cutting lines directly on the material.
Before starting work, beginning craftswomen should learn how to sew a sun skirt with their own hands.
If you have little experience, it is better to make the pattern on paper. Then the task will be easier to cope with.
For calculations you will need to measure your waist and hip circumference. You also need to decide on the length of the product.
If the skirt uses a zipper, then the basic measurement for calculations will be the waist circumference. Using this value, the radius of the cut is calculated.
Mark the center of the pattern on paper. From this point, the radius value is laid out in different directions: R = waist circumference / 2 * 3.14. By connecting the points, an arc is obtained. It is necessary to set aside the length of the product from it.
The pattern is cut out. The fabric is folded in half and the resulting paper template is applied. It is necessary to provide allowances for processing the top cut and hemming the bottom. Afterwards you can begin the process of assembling the product.
A zipper is inserted into the skirt, and a belt is sewn to the upper section. To make the work easier, you can use a wide elastic band to which the workpiece is sewn.
You should leave the skirt on the hanger for a day. The bottom cut must be leveled. Only after this can it be processed.
Snowflake from children's fantasies
It's time to remember what a wonderful snowflake you were in kindergarten. If you have a white turtleneck, you are already a quarter of the way through your snowflake costume. You will also need tulle for the skirt, stiff wire, white tinsel and sequins that play in the light.
Skirt. As a rule, the width of the tulle cut is 1.5 m. Cut three pieces, measuring and marking the required dimensions of the skirt, multiplied by two. Then fold each piece in half lengthwise. Sew the first section along the fold, leaving 1.5 cm for the elastic. Do the same with the second and third cuts, but the edges of the next cut should slightly overlap the edge of the previous one.
A tulle tutu skirt is very easy to make from a wide elastic band and ribbon for bows.
Measure your waist, add 3 cm to the resulting figure. Measure and cut this distance on the elastic, thread it into the skirt and sew up the edges of the elastic. Straighten your skirt. Decorate it with tinsel and sequins, pebbles and sparkles, and decorate the turtleneck: the more decorations, the better. A snowflake should sparkle and shimmer.
A snowflake crown is very easy to make from wire and tinsel.
The head can also be decorated with tinsel. Measure the circumference of your head, add 2 cm, measure the wire along this length and cut the desired piece, bend it to get the circumference. Wrap the wire with tinsel, turning it into a luxurious fluffy headband, and fasten the edges with thread. You will make a beautiful costume - both the child will like you and the adults will be impressed.
Skirt with elastic
The product may have a belt and a zipper. A simpler option would be a model with an elastic band. It is simple and quick to make.
You just need to figure out how to sew a skirt with an elastic band with your own hands. The upper cut of the product is divided into parts and lines are drawn with chalk; this operation is repeated with an elastic band.
Then the elements are connected, precisely connecting the lines. Then, using a sewing machine, the parts are stitched together, stretching the rubber slightly. To do this, use an elastic zigzag stitch.
Christmas tree costume
If you have a green dress, you can dress up as a Christmas tree. You will need tinsel, beads, green and red cardboard.
Attention! Using tinsel, divide the dress horizontally into levels, sewing strips of tinsel at a distance of 20-40 cm from each other.
Continue decorating the dress with beads, sequins - anything shiny you have. Then get to work on your headdress. Fold the paper (preferably cardboard) to form a cap. Cover or trim the resulting cap with green tinsel. Here, too, show more creativity: the more decorations, the better, after all, today you are a Christmas tree, and there is no such thing as “too much stuff” on a Christmas tree.
Cut out a couple of stars from yellow or scarlet cardboard and glue them together so that the colored sides are on the outside. Do not glue the base at the bottom, leave a hole so that you can put this star on the top of the cap you have already made. After placing the star on the headdress, glue it on.
Continue decorating yourself, don’t be shy and don’t deny yourself anything: beads, earrings, bracelets, bright makeup. This evening, the phrase “look, she’s dressed up like a Christmas tree” will not at all mean that you have bad taste.
The base of the cap is calculated according to the circumference of the head
For a New Year's Christmas tree costume, instead of a cap, you can make a tower hairstyle that will resemble a forest beauty. It will look very unusual and interesting, perfectly complementing the image. In addition, this hairstyle can be combined with a regular beautiful festive dress.
Cheerful bearded gnome
The components of the costume are a shirt, trousers, a cap and a beard. If the child is older, then the cap can be made from colored paper.
But for a baby it is still worth choosing a soft, warm fabric, for example felt, as a basis. Sewing it is extremely simple - the fabric should be rolled into a cone and machine stitched on one side.
We make a beard in this way - we sew fur onto a white felt blank. And so that the beard does not fall off, it can be sewn to a hat.
Any fabric is suitable for a caftan. The pattern can be your baby's loose sweater. No effort required here. The pattern should be traced along the contour and the resulting blank should be cut out and sewn.At the end of assembling the entire costume, don’t forget about the belt, but you shouldn’t tighten it too much so as not to crush the baby’s belly.
Unusual mask
If you don't want to bother with preparing a New Year's costume for an adult, considering it more suitable for children, or you have to go to a party where they do not expect to hold a masquerade party, or for some other reason you want to celebrate in your chic socialite dress, and not in a fairy tale costume, then you will need a masquerade mask. Cut the mask out of cardboard; it can be any shape, as long as the design is symmetrical. Glue lace onto the cardboard; the drapery will add volume to the mask. First (depending on your desire) you can paint the mask or simply paint it black (or, for example, golden) and only then cover it with lace.
Lace can be either glued or sewn onto a cardboard mask
For an openwork mask made with stained glass paint, take a model drawn on paper, put polyethylene, cling film or put it in a file, and then apply the design along the contour. As soon as the mask dries, carefully peel it off.
In order not to put on a mask, but simply bring it to your face, holding it in your hands, you need to glue it to a stick or wooden skewer (a stick or skewer can also be decorated, for example, with a shiny cord) or make holes in the sides of the mask and attach an elastic band. Let your imagination run wild and create the most beautiful and unusual one!
Making a robber pirate outfit
Which costumes do you prefer, store-bought or homemade?
Not really
You can create a real pirate costume for adults by wearing black trousers cut into fringes at the bottom, a vest, a worn shirt tied in a knot at the waist and a bandana on the head. A belt with a large plaque, tied or fastened on the side, will give a dashing look. It is possible to make several holes in the vest and tear the shoulder line on the shirt, giving the appearance of a dangerous, seasoned ragamuffin from the vast expanses of the sea.
A daring corsair should be fatal, formidable, and accessories can help with this. You can buy an eye patch at a souvenir store or make it yourself by tying a strip of black fabric around your head. Paint a skull and crossbones design on a black bandana with white paint for a menacing look.
And it is imperative to get a sword, as a symbol of mercilessness and bloodthirstiness.
By carrying out simple manipulations with things that can easily be found in the closet, you can really get an excellent image of a robber pirate, a thunderstorm of the seas and oceans. A homemade adult New Year's costume with your own hands always looks no worse than a store-bought one.
