I am into sewing for quite a while now, and I must say there is one subject that I always avoided: trousers.
It is, in my eyes, tough I believe to share that opinion with many others, one of the most difficult clothing to create from scratch. Why? Because any little curve or line you move for one centimeter, changes the whole look. You can observe that pretty well when you try on trousers. In some your ass looks bigger or flatter, the legs seem longer or shorter, in some you would feel fat or too thin. Whatever you like or dislike, about looks, you’ll find it just by trying on different clothing, when your shapes and sizes and look stay the same all along…
Especially trousers are known to pinch you in certain places and have too much loose fabric in another, and some will only look good in that one position, that you can certainly not maintain for a full day, not even an hour.
Now I would love to share with you my latest project, took me over a week to accomplish, but there it is, my first pair of fitting jeans.
The idea was to make a pair of jeans, that would be comfortable enough to wear all the time but elegant at the same time. Therefor I used my working trousers, for the sewing-pattern, that I transferred onto my fabric. (I wrote about that whole process of copping the pattern in my last post …. so, I won’t talk about it here)
Then I did add the details. What my imagination, regarding elegant jeans came up with was, that the waist should be plain and show no buttons at the front, instead I placed the sip at the back. On the legs I wanted to leave the side seam open, up to the ankles. Like that I create an optic of wide-leg trousers from the front and on the side ankles or shoes would show through.
Really the most part of my attention I did pay to the waistband. Adding folds at the front and in the back.
It was an endless back and forth to the bathroom-mirror, to check if everything is still in place...
...until I managed to create the waistband I had imagined.
If you read one of my previous posts here on hive, you would have noticed, that a lot of my work turns around upcycling and the term of “slow fashion”. Well in this case I did design, construct and sew the trousers from scratch. Nevertheless, the jeans-material I had was from a secondhand shop. You could say I didn’t upcycle an existing item, but I reused an existing fabric, without using “new” materials.
Even a lot of the threads I can find them second hand. One thing that I find amazing about that, is that very often you’ll find high quality materials, that if you would buy them new would cost quite much, or that don’t even get produced in that way anymore. Here you go for example 100% silk thread made in Switzerland. On top of it the color of it is just beautiful and fitting perfect to give a invisible seam on the outside of my jeans.
Regarding Jeans in fashion, it is probably one of the most popular pieces of clothing, regardless of country and culture, you’ll find a pair of jeans in almost every corner of this planet, I guess. Apart from that it is an item that, unfortunately also plays a big role in the destructiveness of the fashion industry. Just naming the example of how much water is used to produce one pair of jeans (it is around 10`000 to 7000 liters), is quite shocking.
Regarding those numbers, jeans are an item, that is definitely worth being reused, or upcycled. In that matter it was very inspiring to come across the #needleworkyourjeans contest of the 
I hope you enjoyed this project I share with you, and I am looking forward to what you might say about it.
Thanks for stopping by, see you around and util then have a lovely time!!