How to make a pirate costume with your own hands?

Often the girls decide to wear a pirate costume for the carnival. It's quite easy to make it with your own hands. The main thing is to emphasize the main features of the attire of the corsairs.

Distinctive features of women's pirate dress

What should be remembered to make a pirate costume with your own hands beautiful, elegant, and that everyone immediately realized who the girl is depicting at the carnival?

Features of this outfit are thatpirates are, firstly, sailors, and secondly - robbers. There is one more important detail: being robbers, pirates had a weakness for decorations, leather and velvet apparels, bright fabrics. Therefore, in order to build a pirate suit with your own hands, you need to get an old vest or striped cloth, a wide-brimmed hat, high boots, better boots, a leather waistcoat, bright chiffon or kapron scarves and scarves, wide belts and belts from the pantry or from the mezzanine with buckles, bandana, large shiny jewelry and weapons - you can use children's toy sabers, swords, swords, muskets, pistols and similar things.

Pirate suit with your own hands with a vest

If there is a vest and high boots, then the question withthe costume, you can say, has already been solved, all other items will be just an addition to it. You can wear leggings or trousers, shorts or breeches, a skirt or bermudas to the vest - this is a minor issue.

One of the outfits is robbery. Then the bottom of the skirt is recommended to be turned into rags, on the vest to cut holes, to attach a black bandage to the eye. A toy of a bird on his shoulder perfectly complements the image of such a bloodthirsty piratka-atamanshi.

Attire for pirates-coquette

The situation is more complicated if the vest is not. In this case, the pirate costume will have to be made by own hands, relying on other distinctive features of this outfit. And this will be a hat or bandana, an applique on clothes in the form of a skull and bones (you can even draw the emblem with white paint), a wide belt with a large metal buckle.

Piratka-coquette can be dressed in leathera waistcoat or a long-bodied velvet jacket, a short skirt or shorts and high boots, a hair for bandanas, a hat or dissolve, with a ribbon on his forehead. You can make such a pirate costume with your own hands, the photo of which is presented here: with an uneven asymmetrical bottom of the skirt, a bright kerchief tied on the hips, with a decollete blouse, the sleeves of which are quite wide and strapped at the wrist of the cusp, and with a vest that completes the overall appearance.

Pirate weapons

But it may be that there is no toy weapon in the house. In this case, you can make it yourself. As an option, the curve of a short saber, which can be easily made from cardboard, perfectly suits.

Drawing on a cardboard, for example, from a box from undercandy or biscuits, the outline of a blade and a handle, it should be cut with a sharp knife. Then the blade needs to be covered with foil, and wrap the handle with electrical tape. Rhinestones, old brooches, chains, bright buttons and other "glitter", glued on the handle, will simulate the incrustation of weapons with precious stones.

You can also cut out cardboard and musket. Combining the two templates, they can easily be wrapped with electrical tape and covered with black paint. "Inlay" the musket with improvised shiny little things not only is not forbidden, but it is also welcomed!