 How to Make an Adult Ballerina Costume
This is a NO sewing required costume!
Making your adult ballerina costume:
Start with one pair of pink footed pajamas
Make a Man-Sized Tutu:
See photo below:
Make a "needle" from a paper clip, put pink ribbon through a loop at the end, secure the loop with tape.
Buy 3-4 feet of "netting" from a fabric store ($1.75 a yard)
Fold the netting so it's 2 feet x 5-6 feet.
Use the paper clip to "sew" down the middle (ask a woman how to).
It will be difficult to pull the ribboned paper clip through - but you don't care if it rips a little - it's just a costume!
Cut the edges so nothing's folded (makes it fluffier).
When you get to the end pull the netting down the ribbon so it bunches up.
Tie it around your waist.
Make a Pretty Hair Bow with Pink Tassels:
Just take 6 inches of netting from your tutu fabric, fold it like a fan, and twisty-tie it to a headband (available at drugstores). Add pink ribbon if you like.
Make a Pair of Faux Ballerina Slippers
By wrapping pink ribbon around your ankles.
This would be a great group costume... Think: "We're the Nutcracker"...
Or a good couple costume... Him in a pink tutu and her with a goatee, dressed in black spandex - as a male ballet dancer. |
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