Children's bathrobe with a hood
Despite the fact that more practical options are most often used as home clothes - a T-shirt, shorts, leggings, a dress, a sundress, a children's robe with a hood will surely be found in every child's wardrobe. It is commonly used as a warming garment after showering or bathing.
It is convenient to put it on in the morning, you can quickly warm up in it, if it is cold, finally, it is just very warm, comfortable and cozy in it.
Features and Benefits
The dressing gown, as a housewear, began to be used for a long time. Because it is comfortable, soft, warm, and absorbs moisture quickly.
The features of children's bathrobes with a hood include the following points:
- Dense material. The robe fabric can be soft, but thick enough to keep your baby warm and absorb moisture quickly. This applies primarily to bathrobes.
- As a rule, children's bathrobes do not have complex fasteners (zippers, buttons, hooks). Bathrobes are made with a wrap and are complemented by comfortable belts.
- The length of the baby's bathrobe also matters. They are almost never short. The optimal length is to mid-calf. The baby should be warm and comfortable in the robe.
When choosing a baby gown, it is necessary to consider several important points, for example, the quality of the material from which it is sewn. Natural materials are most often chosen for children's clothing. This is especially true for models worn on a naked body, for example, after a bath, shower, pool.
Such a robe should quickly absorb water while remaining comfortable and warm.
Models
Children's bathrobes with hoods can be divided into several groups depending on the model, the material from which they are sewn, the presence of decor, the type of fastener, and length.
Zippered robes
As a rule, these are models for everyday wear or creative pursuits. They are distinguished from the baths by brighter and more variegated colors, the presence of additional details, a more varied decor.
Poncho robes
A robe that can be quickly thrown over the shoulders of a child without getting confused with sleeves and complicated fasteners. Great for the beach or pool activities, for example. Such models are often performed stylized to resemble the costumes of favorite children's characters from fairy tales and cartoons.
Dressing gowns with buttons
Usually these models are used as complete home clothes. Sewn from thin or warm natural fabrics (calico, chintz, flannel, fleece, satin). Most often, colorful, bright fabrics are used for their sewing. Bathrobes are decorated with fabulous, cartoon characters, funny animals, children's toys, flowers.
Bathrobes
The name speaks for itself. These models are designed to quickly warm up the baby and absorb moisture from a wet body. They are used after taking water procedures, swimming in the sea, in the pool.
Material
Different materials are used for sewing gowns. It can be fabrics of natural and synthetic origin: chintz, calico, flannel, knitted fabric, waffle and terry cloth, microfiber, fleece, velor, bamboo, polyester. The main requirements for the materials from which children's dressing gowns are made are: hypoallergenicity, air and water permeability, practicality, heat-saving properties, aesthetic appeal.
The robe can be of different lengths. If these are bath models, then their purpose is to quickly warm and dry the child after water procedures. Therefore, they should be long, put on quickly and not cause discomfort. Dressing gowns as clothing for the home can have different types of fasteners, their length may vary.
The hood serves not only as a functional element to quickly dry and warm a wet head, it is also part of the decorative design of the dressing gown. That is why they are often made in a contrasting color, shaped like an animal face, supplemented with ears, fur, and various decorative elements.
Colors and prints
Children's clothing most often involves bright, joyful, saturated colors.
Bathrobes are very often made in solid orange, blue, white, blue, pink, green. They can be decorated with striped prints, flowers, images of cartoon and fairy-tale characters, animals.
The dressing gown, as a home clothing, is most often printed. The most popular ornament for decorating dressing gowns for girls, of course, are flowers and fairy tale characters.
White, black, light gray, cream, beige and other neutral colors are considered versatile and are equally suitable for boys and girls.
How to cut and sew a baby gown?
Of course, the variety of robes offered by manufacturers makes it easy to purchase any model you like for your child. However, if desired, the original robe can be easily sewn with your own hands. Such work does not require special skills and a lot of time.
One of the simplest options is a bath towel robe. To do this, fold the towel in four and spread the children's T-shirt or dress on the cloth so that the central part of the neckline coincides with the central corner of the towel.
In this case, the sleeve of the T-shirt should be located along the open side of the towel.
Then you should add to the pattern about 15 centimeters around and cut without touching the neck. Then the towel must be unfolded and cut in the middle. The hood will be made from two pieces of fabric cut off.For finishing, you can use scraps of the same towel or pieces of fabric contrasting in color. They trim the bottom, side parts of the robe, frame the hood.
Beautiful images
- Babies look especially charming in cozy terry, fleece or flannel robes with the image of funny animals. For example, like this cute baby in a warm robe with a picture of a funny mouse.
- Older children prefer more "adult" models of dressing gowns, often long and monochromatic.
- Lovers of popular cartoon characters will surely like a beautiful bright yellow robe with a belt and a hood depicting their favorite hero.