Guise! I made some pants!
Again, these are the Guise pants by Papercut Patterns. The fabric is some wool suiting that I bought in a little fabric shop in Sydney about four years ago. Possibly it was Melbourne. One of them! It has a lovely hand and drape and the stitches really sink into the fabric.
I wrote about the wearable toile I made a couple of weeks ago here. The fit was good on those so I didn’t make any alterations on this pair!
However, there was a problem. While the fit was good on shorts, which are light, the heavy wool long pants dragged, especially when I had my phone in my pocket. I wore these to work one day and wasn’t satisfied with the fit. I even put on two more belt loops at the back to try and compensate for the dragging but I had to alter them.
Because it wasn’t possible to alter the fit significantly without taking apart the entire trousers, I solved this by taking in the elastic at the back… a fair bit. The worn photos are of the altered pants, and the detail shots below are of the pants before the alteration.
The pockets are lined with some China silk I’ve had a little scrap of for years and years. It’s got butterflies on it 🙂
So I guess I’ve got a good pair of wool work pants now that it’s summer! Ha!
Christina Hopgood 