Finished: Welcome to Jeansville

Did I mention the jeans of my dreams earlier?

Well, they’ve finally happened.

I’ve been dreaming of 1940’s wide leg jeans for a VERY long time, but honestly, I’ve been too scared to try and make them.

I mean, the fitting, the top stitching – it all seemed like so much effort to get wrong! And denim isn’t the cheapest fabric to mess up with either. What if I made a mistake?

But here I am over the moon in Jeansville, and they worked out.

I relied heavily on Simplicity 4990 for inspiration (boy’s jeans from 1954), and modified the EvaDress Wide Leg Trousers 3322.

To figure out how wide I wanted the legs, I compared them to some Freddies of Pinewood jeans in my closet – then pinched out the excess width from the EvaDress trouser pattern down the centre. I believe I took a total of 6 inches excess width out of each leg to narrow the fit.

The denim is just a basic navy from Lincraft, but it has an ever so slight stretch. A back zipper instead of a front zipper of course!

MODS;

• Pinched out 3 inches width from the centre of trousers, front and back, to reduce the excess width
• Folded pants pocket
• 1950s pattern said to use snaps on the pockets – I used buttons and button holes