Porting over an old popular post from my other place on the web. So if you see this on another site, it's still me. Originally post back in 2007 This was before I was making my patterns in CAD. This was not my first time taking a pattern off an old garment, I had done a Victorian bustle dress in a Friends collection earlier. This was however the first time I shared a pattern online. I have fond memories of taking the pattern off while my eldest child was in the highchair. Or my Tribute to…

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Looking at patterns for leggings/hosen from several sources.

knickerbockers from the costumer's manifesto

To continue our story, one characteristic of both the 1908 and 1916 pattern Reithosen; or riding breeches is that they are minimally tailored. Beyond the legs gradually tapering in, there is little…

https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/306/1/BOOK-TF18C https://www.amazon.com/Tidings-Eighteenth-Century-Beth-Gilgun/dp/1880655047;

Breeches to Pants – Regency PeriodI am not an historian. But when I begin a sewing pattern project, I like to read what the textile experts, historians, and period writings have to say about the garment. I also like to look at extant examples in Museum Collections. If I am lucky I can find and purchase an extant garment also, which will fill in the information about construction. My favorite book is “A History of Men’s Fashion” by Farid Chenoune, from which I quote profusely, below.Th

Very simple late 16th century Italian pants pattern.