Making epaulettes (epaulettes)

You can always look beautiful and original without having to spend money on expensive things and unusual jewelry. You can make unusual and original decorations for clothes with your own hands and they will look no worse than store-bought ones. Today, world-famous stars and fashionistas from all over the world use epaulettes in their ingenious outfits. In order to unusually decorate a simple sweater, denim or leather jacket, you can make your own epaulettes. They will be a very original addition to your image.

What we need to make epaulettes:

• Shoulder pads (shoulder pads).
  
• A piece of black satin fabric.
  
• Needle with black thread.
  
• Thin chains of two colors.
  
• Decorative ribbon in dark blue.
  
• Metal accessories for jewelry: bead huggers, fasteners for ribbons.
  
• Any metal elements for decoration.
  
• Scissors.

Let's start making epaulettes. First we need to give the hangers the correct and desired shape. I used scissors to cut the hangers and gave them a rectangular shape. We check that they are the same.



Next, take a piece of black satin fabric and cut two identical pieces so that they are larger than the hanger.We wrap each piece of fabric around the hangers and sew them in the middle. We try to sew tightly, so that the fabric does not unravel, but holds its shape.



Here are two black rectangles ready. Now that the base is ready, it needs to be beautifully decorated.



First, cut two pieces of ribbon. This ribbon can be purchased at a fabric and accessories store. You can take a ribbon of any type and color, as long as you like it. We sew the cut pieces of ribbons with a needle and thread in the middle.



Now we sew one bead hugger on both sides of the ribbons. I thought they looked really good here.




Next, at the front corners of the shoulder strap we attach one fastener for the tapes. They are good because they attach perfectly and tightly thanks to their teeth and have a ring on which you can attach something else. In our case, I put two chains on the rings and an additional metal stick, which also look good.



Now all that remains is to sew the metal elements to the shoulder straps. Mine were square in shape. I first placed them on the shoulder straps, saw how it would look, and then sewed them tightly.



You can sew the finished shoulder straps tightly to a certain item or put them on a pin and then you can remove the shoulder straps and attach them to other outfits.