How to Make 1920s Costumes at Home
The 1920s was a decade full of trend setting fashion. Young women wore shawls. Women wore a loose fitting dress that came down to their knees and cut their hair so that it would fall at their chin. It is extremely easy to create this flapper costume with a few materials.
Materials needed:
- Strappy, loose-fit, knee-length black dress
- Sheer stockings
- Black, chin-length wig
- Purple sequins
- 4-inch purple feather
- 3 long strings of fake pearls
- Elastic headband
- Black, strappy high heels
- Thread
- Needle
- Purple feather boa
The elastic headband needs to be covered in sequins. Get a lot of sequins and sew them onto the headband. Sew the purple feather behind the part of the headband that is located in the front. Make sure that the feather is tightly secured and tie it in a knot.
On the strap that is located to the left of the black dress that you have purchased, sew some of the purple sequins. Scatter about twenty sequins around the neck area and sew them on tightly to the dress. The sequins should look pretty, but they do not have to look neat. Sew them in the order that you would like them to be.
Get dressed in the dress, stockings and high heels that you have just designed. Place the wig on your head and put the headband on your head. Put the feather boa around your neck. Look and the mirror and check the feather. Make sure that it is sitting neatly on the side of your head.