eyelet pants (and a chimera top)

I've been feeling very experimental for some time. I mean it, sewingwise. The other day I felt like checking how my experimental pair of summer pants would seem if I used a blouse-weight cotton for them, and also how this simple but unusual T shirt would look if I used a feminine lace only in its back. So I sewed them. I wasn't very much ambitious for great success, but I just wanted to try these with some fabric remnants.

And they turned out interesting and nice, unexpectedly. That was surprising even to me. I have taken some pictures of the pants, so I'm going to write some for them today and would leave the other result for the next blog post.

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I used this gray cotton fabric covered with tiny cut off raw eyelets. I hope you can get it from the close-up photo. This is a pretty fabric (by the way those raw edges of the eyelets don't fray almost at all), and I think it would make pretty blouses. I made a pair of semi-wide pants in this fabric with an even thinner gray lining fabric attached as a single layer instead. I could have assembled the outer shell(pants) and the lining in the traditional way, but I didn't, because I wished that by handling two thin fabrics as a single layer these light pants would hold their shape better than having two separate layers. And it worked as expected. Though they are surely not suitable for *proper* occasions, they're great for my business and daily casual activities in this heatwave of Japanese summer. They're long, light and breezy, and cool, in my eyes. I'm happy with them so much! I may like to have another pair in some large plaid, don't you think they would be cool too?

I used Joker semi-baggy pants pattern from Tamanegi-kobo, I'm so loving this pattern, because it elongates and straightens my legs very much. yay.

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summer pants
pattern: Joker semi-baggy pants(PDF) from Tamanegi-kobo
not much altered or adjusted
fabric: Cotton cut-off eyelets, light gray, thin, soft, matte, gauzy, with summer polyester lining
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don't try to ask me if the blouse is handmade, it's ten-year-old and store-bought...

I wish you're having a lovely day.
I'm going to post the chimera top soon!

Love, love,
yoshimi