Making masquerade costumes with your own hands is always fun and interesting. But the most important plus of a homemade suit is that no one else will have it. An owl is a unique, bright and memorable bird, if you choose this image, then the costume for him should also be special.
We sew an owl costume
As a rule, owls are variegated, white-gray-brown in color. Its most important element is its luxurious wings and round, expressive eyes. Any black, white, gray or brown bolero can be taken as the basis for the wings. Carefully wash the patches of the corresponding colors on top of it to get multi-layered, voluminous, fluffy wings. This is a laborious process, but you will amaze everyone at the upcoming masquerade.
If there is no bolero, then sew the base for the wings yourself. To do this, cut a large circle out of the fabric, the radius of which will be slightly larger than the length of your arm from your neck to your fingertips. In this circle, cut out another small circle exactly in the center for your head to go through. The result is a homemade bolero, which we also trim with gray, white, black and brown shreds of fabric.
It looks very impressive when the basis of the owl's costume is ordinary, coarse potato sacks. Sew a bolero and a skirt from them, and on top also wash various shreds, but not only fabric, but also rustling black garbage bags. Then the costume turns out to be even more expressive, due to the fact that it makes rustling sounds when the wing flaps.
In both versions, under the resulting wings, you should wear a turtleneck and leggings, the colors that are present on the shreds of fabric sewn onto the bolero.
We sew a headdress for an owl costume
Now let's take a headdress. Take an ordinary cap with a visor, wash your eyes over it. An eye can be made from the bottom of a plastic bottle by painting it with yellow nail polish or acrylic paint with a glossy effect, draw the pupil in the center in black. These eyes can be sewn to the cap using the largest needle. Also, eyes can be sewn from bright yellow fabric, again, not forgetting about the black pupil. The owl's eyes should be very noticeable and expressive. Then ears are sewn to the cap, which are filled with synthpon or any other stuffing inside, because the ears should be standing. After all this, decorate the cap with shreds of fabric in the same way as for the bolero.
You can put on big, big round glasses instead of a cap - they will be eyes. And on the head is a hat with ears, decorated with shreds of fabric.
If you have an old feather pillow lying around in your house, then it will be very useful to you, carefully gut it and decorate the resulting suit with real feathers that can be attached to the fabric with glue.
