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 bathrobe with a hood will probably be found in the wardrobe of every child. It is usually used as warming clothing after taking a shower or bath.
It is convenient to throw it in the morning, you can quickly warm yourself in it, if it is frozen, finally, it is just very warm, comfortable and cozy in it.
Features and Benefits
The robe, as home clothes, began to be used for a long time. Because it is comfortable, soft, warm, and quickly absorbs moisture.
The features of children's bathrobes with a hood include the following:
- Thick material. The fabric for a baby bathrobe may be soft, but it is dense to quickly warm the baby and absorb moisture. This applies primarily to bathrobes.
- As a rule, children's bathrobes do not have complex fasteners (zipper, button, hooks). Dressing gowns are performed with a smell and are complemented by comfortable belts.
- The length of a baby bathrobe also matters. They are almost never short. The optimal length is to the middle of the calf. The child should be warm and comfortable in a bathrobe.
When choosing a baby bathrobe, several important points must be taken into account, for example, the quality of the material from which it is sewn. For children's clothing, natural materials are most often chosen. Especially, this applies to models worn on a naked body, for example, after a bath, shower, pool.
Such a bathrobe should quickly absorb water and remain 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, length.
Robes with zippers
As a rule, these are models for everyday wear or creative activities. From the baths they are distinguished by a brighter and more colorful coloring, the presence of additional details, a more diverse decor.
Poncho robes
A dressing gown that can be easily put on a child’s shoulders without getting confused with sleeves and complicated fasteners. Great for beach or pool activities, for example. Such models are often performed stylized as costumes of your favorite children's characters of fairy tales and cartoons.
Dressing gowns with buttons
Typically, these models are used as full-fledged home clothes. Sewn from thin or warm natural fabrics (calico, calico, chintz, flannel, fleece, satin). Most often, colorful, colorful fabrics are used for their sewing. Dressing gowns 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 a child and absorb moisture from a wet body. They are used after taking water procedures, swimming in the sea, pool.
Material
For the manufacture of dressing gowns, different materials are used. These 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 baby gowns are sewn include: hypoallergenicity, air and water permeability, practicality, heat-saving properties, aesthetic appeal.
The dressing gown can have different lengths. If these are bath models, then their goal is to quickly warm and dry the child after water procedures. Therefore, they should be long, put on quickly and not cause an uncomfortable feeling. Dressing gowns as clothes for home can have different types of fasteners, their length can vary.
The hood is not only a functional element to quickly dry and warm a wet head, it is also part of the dressing gown's decoration. That is why they are often performed in a contrasting color, decorated in the form of an animal face, complemented by ears, fur, various decorative elements.
Colors and prints
Children's clothing often involves bright, joyful, rich colors.
Bathrobes are very often performed in plain orange, blue, white, blue, pink, green. They can be decorated with a striped print, flowers, images of cartoon and fairy-tale characters, animals.
A bathrobe, like home clothes, is most often printed. The most popular ornament for decorating bathrobes for girls, of course, are flowers and fairy-tale characters.
White, black, light gray, cream, beige and other neutral colors are considered universal and equally suitable for boys and girls.
How to cut and sew a baby bathrobe?
Of course, the variety of bathrobes offered by manufacturers easily allows you to purchase any model you like for your child. However, if desired, the original robe can easily be sewn with your own hands. Such work does not require special skills and a lot of time.
One of the easiest options is a bathrobe made from a bath towel. To do this, fold the towel four times and lay out a baby T-shirt or dress on the fabric so that the central part of the neck coincides with the central corner of the towel.
The sleeve of the T-shirt should be located along the open side of the towel.
Then you should add about 15 centimeters around to the pattern and cut it without affecting the neck. Then the towel should be deployed and cut in the middle. The hood will be made of two cut pieces of fabric.For finishing, you can use trimmings of the same towels or pieces of fabric contrasting in color. They trim the bottom, the side parts of the dressing gown, frame the hood.
Beautiful images
- Kids look especially charming in cozy terry, fleece or flannelette dressing gowns with the image of funny animals. For example, like this cute baby in a warm robe with an image of a funny mouse.
- Older children prefer more "adult" models of bathrobes, often long and plain.
- Lovers of popular cartoon characters will surely like a beautiful bright yellow bathrobe with a belt and a hood depicting a beloved hero.