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 a female pirate dress

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

Features of this outfit are that pirates 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 of the suit, 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 through holes, to attach a black bandage to the eye. A toy of a bird on his shoulder perfectly complements the image of this 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, appliqué on clothes in the form of a skull and bones (you can even paint the emblem with white paint), a wide belt with a large metal buckle.

A pirate coquette can be worn in a leather waistcoat or a long-bodied velvet coat, a short skirt or shorts and high boots, the hair can be put under a bandana, a hat or disbanded, with a ribbon on the forehead. You can make such a pirate costume with your own hands, the photo of which is presented here: with an uneven asymmetric bottom of the skirt, a bright scarf-kerchief tied on the hips, with a decollete blouse, the sleeves of which are fairly wide and strapped at the wrist of the cusp, and with a vest that completes the overall look.

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 the cardboard, for example, from a box of candy or cookies, the outline of the blade and handle, it should be cut with a sharp knife. Then the blade should be covered with foil, and wrap the handle with electrical tape. Rhinestones, old brooches, chains, bright buttons and other "glitter", pasted on the handle, will imitate 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 tape and covered with black paint. "Inlay" musket with improvised shiny little things is not only not forbidden, but it is also welcomed!