R never wears pants, but I decided to make her some anyway - nothing too complicated and time-consuming, because after all, they might never be worn, but something simple and comfortable as sort of a trial. I traced off pattern O from
Happy Homemade, straightened the line of the leg and added back and side pockets from pattern I. In a soft and thin black denim the pants were easy to sew. The waist is elasticised (I added an 'x' at the back waist to secre the elastic) and I threw in a bit of topstitching at the hems just because I felt like they needed something extra.
I paired the pants with a loose-fitting top from
Girls Style Book - you can see my previous version
here. This is a great trans-seasonal top because it looks lovely with a long-sleeved top underneath on colder days. When I checked the cupboard for an appropriate fabric I found I had just enough of this soft, flowery voile, last used several years ago to make an amazingly similar top (which pre-dates this blog, but you can see it on my
Flickr stream, along with the many Oliver + S ice cream dresses I made back in those days!). I made just two modifications to the pattern: omitting the ruffles on the sleeves and taking a couple of centimetres off the centre of the front and back pattern pieces.
I took R outside to take the photos but weirdly every single one of the pictures is out of focus... so I've had to pick out the least blurry ones. I think the outfit looks just perfect on her, and to my amazement,
she actually likes the pants.
Morry strolled by as we were photographing and scored a starring role in the one-and-only sharp focus shot:
R has given me permission to make her more pants, and I'd like to try some skinny jeans. Is the Titchy Threads pattern the way to go? Give me your skinny jeans recommendations, please!
Oh wow, has she decided to enter the world of pants now? Hope it won't conflict with her love for dresses, like mine.... The outfit is lovely.
ReplyDeleteI will be so cross if she refuses to wear dresses - I so love making them!
DeleteOh my gosh - that outfit! I would wear it in a second. I'm so glad she likes the pants as they are just lovely. I wish I could get my girls to wear pants like that. They are all-leggings-all-the-time kind of people.
ReplyDeleteThanks Masha. Pants are great, but you probably can't go past leggings for comfort - not to mention ease of sewing!
DeleteThis outfit is so pretty! And yay to expanding the repertoire :-) Titchy Threads' Skinny jeans is definitely an amazing pattern and so is her Twisted Trousers. You can't go wrong with any of them. Petit a Petit's Morocco Pants are also amazing. Thanks for linking up to Sew Japan. For some reason the link doesn't work?!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mie! Weird that the link didn't work. I've deleted it and re-linked - it seems to have done the trick :)
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