After poking around, I think I got the best price on gray wool as anywhere from Period Fabric. (I suspect I will purchase from them again.)
Things went together pretty smoothly for the main part and I really enjoyed working with the material:
A reenacting friend ordered a new pair of uniform pants--the criteria: wool and medium gray. After poking around, I think I got the best price on gray wool as anywhere from Period Fabric. (I suspect I will purchase from them again.) With the arrival of the material, I set to work--double checking all my measurements and things. Since 19th century trousers fit different than modern pants, I had a little stress on this front (note to self--next time making period correct trousers, don't worry too much over the gents inseam length, but stick to his outseam length! Much more helpful in these circumstances.) Things went together pretty smoothly for the main part and I really enjoyed working with the material: This was pretty much a one-day project: I purposefully left these a little long since I wasn't completely confident in my measurements, so it wasn't a surprise when Josh tried them on and it became quite obvious they need to be shorted. So, I fixed them up and finished them there at the reenactment--including using a fire-heated sad iron for the first time in my life! ~~Racheal~~
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Oh...jimminy. I wrote this post the other day and all the text disappeared! Great. I love re-writes... :/ The trousers--for these I used a pre-existing costume pattern which I deemed to actually be authentic looking. I just had to size it down since. I started out by basting the piping to the front sections. Technically, this pair of trousers really should have had 1"-2" trim down the sides, but I went with piping because--hmm. I used the excuse of "it takes less material" but now I'm not sure. Piping is cut on the bias, so I got over 200" of piping out of roughly 3/4 of yard. At anyrate, I had seen period photographs where the pants had piping rather than wide trim down the legs. Before going any further, I worked on the fly--all three or so layers. Fly, underlap, linings, etc. I had never actually made a pair of adult pants before, so this was new--and easier than I expected. The fly...minus the buttons. I decided to check my bees and got stung in a few places, but was able to keep sewing. Praise the Lord for ice!! And the wisdom to finally start using it on bee-stings. When it came time to put the pocket in, I found myself completely muddled; probably because it was after 8 pm. Consequently, I decided to make a mock-up the next morning. As it happened, by the time I was half way through the mock-up (for which I used an old pair of PJ pants for material) I had it figured out and soon had two pockets, plus a small watch pocket inserted in the trousers. The next thing to do was stitch the back panels to the front panels--which also finished up the pockets the rest of the way. With the addition of the "belt" on the back, I was ready for the waistband--but suddenly I realized that, once again, I had managed to take leave of my senses while pattern pinning and I had cut the waistband pieces too short!! For some reasons, I had concluded that they didn't go all the way around. Mm-hmm. SO...I cut some more and the rest of the waist band construction was a breeze. The remainder of the sewing was handwork. I did was amounted to a whipped stitch flat-felled seam up both pant legs: Sewed on the buttons: And the buckle for the 'belt': The hemming, as has already been mentioned, was done by my sister due to my crash. As it turns out, the hem was hidden the most of the time--either in Andrew's boots--or in his socks! :D Stay tuned for more! ~~Racheal~~ |
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