I love how you showcase when things don't work when sewing and how you took a step back and then figured it out. It is so encouraging to mistake prone newbies and shows that costubers are human too. It also helps us to learn and share in what you discovered from figuring things out. I love your videos, Nicole! The suit is goals!!!
Ooh the new hair color is PHENOMENAL!! Sometimes plan go to the worse of ways we want them to go...and we throw them at the wall. See my 1850s fancy chemise.
I would love to see a video covering things you've learned from historybound "crossdressing"/making clothing from patterns not designed for your body/the Gender of it all.
I've been trying to wrap my head around how to do this style of buttonfly on a 1930s German pattern I acquired and I felt like I was missing something. The pattern has virtually no instructions, doesn't even tell you how many pieces of each pattern shape are required, so it was a case of applying common sense and trying to figure out how other garments are constructed. This video lays it all bare and has answered all the questions I had on the construction, it's likely helped me avoid a lot of mistakes too. Thank you very much, once again.
I suppose it was all done “in the usual way”, and a tailor of the time could just cross-reference one of his own such garments if ever in doubt. We, of course, don’t generally have that luxury.
Thank you! I'm embarking in a pair of 1910's trouser and in thirty minutes, you answered more questions than five months of research. The tips on fly stay tape, extended pocket bag, and best construction steps was immensely helpful.
I love that we all have a corner of shame for projects that don’t want to play by the rules! And your new hair color looks great! I always want to have fun with my hair, since it’s just hair, it will grow back, but I can never find the courage, and as such live vicariously through the people who can just change it all up.
I recently shaved my hair for charity and am currently dying the fuzz leopard print. I definitely would never have been able to do that 10 years ago, this is the best time of my life for this. You'll know when the time is right for you to make a big change. ❤
I love how much you explain how you use primary sources like magazines and fashion plates to do almost detective-like research for time periods that have very different fashion and cultural sensibilities to the modern era. And how you explain how you can see the changes through something like the trouser styles!
I completely love the new hair color! I’m one of those people who thinks “mood hair color” needs to be a thing, though. 😁 Thank you for sharing your “mistakes”. We all do these things from time to time, I think everyone has functioned on autopilot before. I certainly can’t blame you for tossing them in the corner for a while! I have more than one project in the “time out” closet for misbehaving needlework. The finished trousers look fantastic!! I’m glad you finished them! Wishing you joy and good health for the coming week!
I love how calm you are when presenting your mistakes. Pretty sure something else happens off-camera, but the calm presentation makes it all surmountable.
Those are fabulous! I made many pair back when the generation before me was still around for all of them plus my generation of younger men. They wore them hunting and ice fishing so they were made a little big to go over long johns
Thank you so much for showing your mistakes. It makes us understand much better how the garment is constructed and why some steps are really important. Plus, it gives me motivation to go back to old failed projects that I did not have the courage to fix. We tend to think we are stupid when we make sewing mistakes and forget that even the best sewists have to unpick and fix their mistakes.
First off why has no one ever showed me this marking method. It’s brilliant really brilliant!! I will be using this method!! I have also saved this for future reference as I would like to try trousers some day. Second off I am so very glad that I’m not the only one who has a time out corner for misbehaving projects! I had a sweater I was knitting that spent more time in the corner than being made. I will never let my mother pick out her pattern and yarn without me ever again!! Despite all the problems you had the trousers look amazing a stunning piece of clothing!! It’s also nice to see how you fixed things and the difference in tailoring methods.
I am a big fan of letting things sit in the corner to think about what they have done. Sometimes that can be quite a long time (cough*8years*cough). But these have come out so well and you can share with us the right order of operations. The choice of lining fabric is divine too!
i really appreciate that you showed the mistakes you made. as a beginner sewer, it’s really intimidating seeing a bunch of amazing historical sewers that you think do everything perfectly but even experienced sewers (and artists of any kind for that matter) make mistakes !
*I JUST MESSED UP* literally this second. Spent 3 FULL days making a 1900's shirt and its the most perfect thing I have ever made... Tried it on and thought "this feels odd???" Did a burn test on the fabric and it some synthetic or snyth cotton blend. It was labelled as 100% cotton - but as it was a role end I cant go back and prove it.
@@NicoleRudolph - Its practice isn't it. I buy a lot of fabric from this person and normally they are accurate with their description, they supply vintage fabrics and I guess they got it wrong. in fairness to them, it did not feel synthetic when I was sewing it, it was only when I put it on and it has that kinda stiff feel.
Ok. Before I finish watching this video: thank you. So much of the time I wonder why I make so many mistakes and nearly give up after tearing out and redeeming only to do it wrong. You’re good. Like you know what you’re doing and it’s hard for me to see you making a mistake bad enough you have to tear out once much less twice. I need to see this to help me not feel so stupid. Thank you for teaching me that I can forgive myself. (Edit: “resew” not “redeem”)
Its actually the mistakes we make that help us learn, even if that learning is to slow down, not sew when tired/distracted etc. I learnt not to sew tired after I sewed in a sleeve by hand, inside out, for the third! time. This is often why some of my garments need time out! I hear you on mistakes being shown, a lot of this can get edited out and makes some of us feel real crap about our abilities.
Such a sensible and serviceable suit to chose, my dad's suits from this era always had two pairs of trousers as he often worked in his shirt sleeves. It is good to stretch yourself, you look elegant wear it. I am yearning to watch you make a Vesta Tilley evening suit. It's a shame as I think you already have made something like that. Birdy
hair color is awesome. I also love how you can slide into men's wear so easily and make it look fabulous. haha my youngest daughter rocked a tux at her senior prom. I have since noticed that there are others now enjoying the same. love your work and your channel.
Knowing that experienced sewists like yourself make mistakes helps newbies like me keep going when we mess up. Thank you for sharing and we get to learn along with you.
I love the fact that you messed up but came back to it. I jumped i to a project that I knew how I wanted to look on Tuesday and realized I got ahead of myself. I am making something I have no pattern for. So I back up and tried coming at it another way and have thought about it all week. I am ready to try again this week.
Thank you so much for making this video! I was literally drafting a trouser block for a pair of 1930's style pants as I was watching this, and this video is a gold mine of techniques and tips and construction methods that I've been trying to research but hadn't found anything in nearly this much detail for. The trousers are for a 3 piece suit. A "challenge project" as the most complex projects I've done to date are button down shirts. I'm so glad I just found your channel!
The music in these videos is incredible. I have been really enjoying your content and trying to decide what about them stands out from other creators. It was the music! Your narration, sewing projects, cinematography, and aesthetic are always excellent but watching you sew to this music is really the magic formula. Thank you for what you do.
Wonderful tutorial, and the mistakes turned out to be only a learning experience. I have an original Butterick pattern for trousers from ca. 1918, and it looks almost identical to what you've made here. I look forward to following some of your steps when making up a pair in the near future. Thank you!
I attempted a pair of trousers, since I can't wear high waisted pants and I gained the quarantine 15 and none of my pants fit anymore. I started with a simplicity pattern, made a mock up, changed it to fit my preferences, made another mock up, messed up the crotch curve, made another mock up and finished it, picked it apart and drafted a new pattern from the mock up, purchased fabric, and it's folded next to my sewing machine. I need to get the guts to cut it.
Thank you for this Video! You really sent me back to my first pair of antique-style trousers, unpicking the seam on top of the fly for the 5th time, because it came out bulky again, or caught something it should not have caught. This video was so relatable and wholesome! I really admire your honesty in showcasing how even the greatest looking outcome might have been prickly on the way!
Ahhh Nicole, that shot at the end is giving me feelings. You look so sharp! And thank you for the inside tour of the pants. Garments like these are best appreciated from the inside, I have dresses and bodices where I think the inside is almost prettier because you can see all the tidy handiwork that went into it (and silk linings are just something special)
Thank you so much for your inspiration! I love to watch your video on Sunday, and then I head to my machine and fabric stash and participate in my very own " Sewing Sunday". Today I'm finishing a cute spring dress- my very first dress!
It is in a weird way soothing to know that even someone so knowledgeable and experienced has these fighting projects. Thank you for another great and in depth video, Nicole. 🧡
Thank you for your attention to detail, including your mistakes. :) I often think that the willingness to admit to the fact that accomplished sewists screw up as fantastically as newbies is as much of a gift as a well demonstrated technique. As you were talking about the corner of shame where your project lived for a length of time, I thought of my skirt sitting on the back table waiting for me to pick it up and rework the waistband yet again. Thank you for a lovely tutorial. It certainly will help my next adventure, which is a pair of trews for my husband.
These turned out really nice! I have only made tailored trousers once, for my spouse, and they ended up a little tight in the back. Maybe one day we will make another. And.... extra THANK YOU for showing how tailor tacks work with cutting the "ladder"! That was the part I didn't know and couldn't figure out!
That fabric!!! So beautiful and sexy. I don't sew anymore, and was never at your level, but what I wouldn't give to have anything that fit me as well as those trousers fit you. Just beautiful.
You're so incredible, so humble and encouraging us all to smile and accept our mistakes as part of our learning path. In short, you're incredible and I can't stop watching your videos. Thank you so much ♥️
Those trousers turned out so GOOD! Perfect fabric choice; the fit is excellent. I am so impressed by your ability to go back and rework the parts that weren't working, and the result is just *chef's kiss*
Thanks for this! There's so many tempting tailor's drafting books out there...it's both helpful and inspiring to watch you work through one of these patterns from drafting to finishing! (And I'm always ready for all the 1920s costuming content.)
It may have caused you some issues, but the end result looks so good! I love how you subtly show the crack gap at the end my leaning forward, such an important part of trying on pants as a woman, don't know if men have to the the same. Just a fantastic look altogether, very well styled with that blue shirt. (Not that anyone is surprised as Nicole has excellent style.)
WOW! Those are the perfect fit and drape. (And my special snowflake sensitive skin is boggling how you can do all those hand stitches without a thimble.)
I refer to this stage of the process as "Putting it into a corner to think about all the things it's currently Not doing". The 10 tries to get a mostly working bodice block took months and allot of YT tutorials... Thank you. Glad to know I'm not the only one who needs to not look at something when it's going wrong. I actually bought a high-waisted late 80's big four pattern for an office set (thanks Stephanie Canada!) so I could base a (future) block off of the pants. Because maybe size adjusting will take less time than drafting? Thank you for covering your process for creating these pants. It's really, really, really helpful. The pants are Stunning. The button fly is just so impressive - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
I love that tweed! I suspect the gap at the back of the waistband is to allow the braces (suspenders)to pull on the area without ripping open a seam that will travel.
Thank you! I sew skirts but that twill tape at the pockets will come in handy soon! 2021 will be the year of the blouse over here (as soon as I tie up a project here). 2022 I want to sew two skirt suit recreations and one seems to have a pocket for a pocket watch or lighter. I don’t want the pocket stretching out!
This is great! And the trousers I buy always get worn in exactly those places where you enhance them with canvas. Wonder if I should buy some canvas and "mend" my trousers before I use them.
This came at the best time for me. I am just starting to make a piece and the entire directions are ONE paragraph long!! This video gave me hope that I don't get so frustrated that I throw them out the second floor window of my sewing room when I make a mistake ...that will certainly happen! Did you place the rear pockets low because that is how people wore them at that time, or b/c that is where you like them? It seemed to me that if a wallet was placed in one of them, the wallet would be felt each time you sat down. I just love the suit. The fabric looked amazing and your workmanship, top notch. Thank you so much for sharing the journey, mistakes and all.
Nicole in the tuxedo, looking like Marlene Dietrich, is exactly the aesthetic I aspire to. Trousers are the one thing I always struggle with and I have made myself a vow that I am going to master them one day!
Amazing! Thank you for showing your mistakes. It makes me feel much better as a newbie. I just picked up some wool to make a waist coast and trousers because you've inspired me. Thank you for sharing your art and your process.
I just threw a pair of, what I wanted to be, Katherine Hepburn style trousers, in the corner. I need another week before I can look at them again. But THANK YOU. I needed to hear your words of wisdom. The good stuff takes time. Love your videos! Keep up the good work ❤️
Wonderful trousers. Great video. Some great tips, information and links to suppliers. And a delight to find someone who owns up to their mistakes so that others may learn from them. Thanks again. I made 9 pairs of 1920s Oxford Bags in 2 weeks (only about 4 hours sleep in total) for the men in my 1920s dance orchestra about 20 years ago - all with button flies. Very similar construction, just very big pleats, wide legs and turn-ups (cuffs). Much less hand work - I must confess. I used a modern commercial a zoot suit pattern (based on 1940s patterns) and modified this using some old tailoring books I have from the 1910s, 20s and early 30s to get the desired shape. I know it was partially cheating, but I needed to know that all the trousers would fit the players well enough to be worn for performances a few days later (Napier Art Deco Weekend, New Zealand) and had neither the time, nor skills to draft all 9 pairs for 9 very different sized musicians. I also had to compromise on using gabardine rather than wool flannel for budget reasons. But all things considered was reasonably pleased with the results. Also - the David Coffin book you recommend is a really wonderful resource - as is his book on shirt making. I wish it had been available when I made my 9 pairs of Oxford Bags. I would suggest anyone with an interest in these things to get copies of both books.
What a beautiful suit. I started with the same pattern and noped out halfway into drafting 😅 I'm happy to see the finished product even if it's not mine! I'm sticking to the waistcoat.
At the end of that road full of trials and mishaps, all I can say is that it was worth it. Those trousers look *so good* 😍 Thank you for sharing the road, potholes and all!
Good work.. Figuring out what went wrong is an important ingredient.. It was especially inspiring when I read that Julia Child was a horrible cook, it's why she went to cooking school. Knowing how to screw up allows us information on how to correct problems as well as the importance of putting things in the right order.
The end tour of the inside was so helpful! It really made some things "klik" in how and why some parts are constructed. Thanks and beautiful results as always😍😍😍😍😍😍
Speaking of problem pockets... I have a pocket I was making off sitting in the corner to think about what it did (the ribbon I got to bind the edges is falling apart. It's fraying away from my stitches and I'm mad because it was expensive)
I feel so seen haha. I had so many difficulties making trousers recently. More than any other project, trousers are the strictest on order of operations. Even one mistake tends to have a cascading effect, and if you mess up-all is lost. Kidding! but trousers are humbling to be sure.
Thank you so much for sharing your mistakes. It's a great leraning opportunity and actually quite comforting to know that even experienced people make mistakes.
The back pocket flap was such a joy watching come together! I don't why the stitching of that flap had such an imprint on me but it was so neat and crisp! I love how these trousers look! Thank you for showing the mistakes and the fixing.
I love your new hair!! Ill be honest I fell in love with your videos when I could hear each thread sliding through the fabric. That sound is just magical. Not to mention you showcase the "harder" aspects of garment making. I am making a vest for my husband to match my wedding gown. I was wondering where you source horse hair (all i have is tarlatan) and light weight leather?
These are beautiful. I'm not a girly girl so have been put off historical sewing as I would never wear a poofy dress. However, of I ever get good enough I would definitely like to make and wear a pair of these. :)
That back of waistband split is still a feature in men's suit tailoring! I've particularly seen it in Italian suits, which I'd guess is because Italian tailoring runs slim, and that split helps prevent the fabric stretching over the seat when the wearer sits.
Thank you for showing your mistakes! Sometimes things get a little too perfect on costube, and it's always nice to see that other people make as many errors as I do!
Dear Glorious Human! Thank you 🙏🏻 so much for sharing things gone amiss. If we don’t make errors, we aren’t learning anything new. It’s super helpful when someone with greater knowledge makes the mistake and shares how to deal with the things. All too often we are not allowed into this hidden world where the greatest amount of learning happens. We are left believing some magical things occur for all those on the TH-cams, and we mere mortals are left feeling hopelessly inadequate then give up. I firmly believe this to be the birthplace of most UFOs. So, again, thank you 🙏🏻
I love how you showcase when things don't work when sewing and how you took a step back and then figured it out. It is so encouraging to mistake prone newbies and shows that costubers are human too. It also helps us to learn and share in what you discovered from figuring things out. I love your videos, Nicole! The suit is goals!!!
One of my absolute favorite things about the costubers who are teaching us! ❤️❤️❤️
Ooh the new hair color is PHENOMENAL!! Sometimes plan go to the worse of ways we want them to go...and we throw them at the wall. See my 1850s fancy chemise.
I would love to see a video covering things you've learned from historybound "crossdressing"/making clothing from patterns not designed for your body/the Gender of it all.
I have so many projects put in the corner to think about what they did
Where my wedding dress is at currently 😂
@@theglitterballlifestyle675 currently troubleshooting 5 different mockups for some breeches for an Scarlet Pimpernel costume
Hopefully after some reflection, they will learn how to correct their behavior. 😆
@@trinamorrison2570 They are, they all have to co-habitate in a Zip-Loc
I was glad to hear that even experienced people sometimes have to put a project into a corner to contemplate its life choices...
I've been trying to wrap my head around how to do this style of buttonfly on a 1930s German pattern I acquired and I felt like I was missing something. The pattern has virtually no instructions, doesn't even tell you how many pieces of each pattern shape are required, so it was a case of applying common sense and trying to figure out how other garments are constructed. This video lays it all bare and has answered all the questions I had on the construction, it's likely helped me avoid a lot of mistakes too. Thank you very much, once again.
I suppose it was all done “in the usual way”, and a tailor of the time could just cross-reference one of his own such garments if ever in doubt. We, of course, don’t generally have that luxury.
Thank you! I'm embarking in a pair of 1910's trouser and in thirty minutes, you answered more questions than five months of research. The tips on fly stay tape, extended pocket bag, and best construction steps was immensely helpful.
I love that we all have a corner of shame for projects that don’t want to play by the rules!
And your new hair color looks great! I always want to have fun with my hair, since it’s just hair, it will grow back, but I can never find the courage, and as such live vicariously through the people who can just change it all up.
I recently shaved my hair for charity and am currently dying the fuzz leopard print. I definitely would never have been able to do that 10 years ago, this is the best time of my life for this. You'll know when the time is right for you to make a big change. ❤
I love how much you explain how you use primary sources like magazines and fashion plates to do almost detective-like research for time periods that have very different fashion and cultural sensibilities to the modern era. And how you explain how you can see the changes through something like the trouser styles!
I completely love the new hair color! I’m one of those people who thinks “mood hair color” needs to be a thing, though. 😁
Thank you for sharing your “mistakes”. We all do these things from time to time, I think everyone has functioned on autopilot before. I certainly can’t blame you for tossing them in the corner for a while! I have more than one project in the “time out” closet for misbehaving needlework. The finished trousers look fantastic!! I’m glad you finished them!
Wishing you joy and good health for the coming week!
I love how calm you are when presenting your mistakes. Pretty sure something else happens off-camera, but the calm presentation makes it all surmountable.
Extremely smooth sponsorship transition! Thanks for showing your mistakes as well as your triumphs.
Those are fabulous! I made many pair back when the generation before me was still around for all of them plus my generation of younger men. They wore them hunting and ice fishing so they were made a little big to go over long johns
I don't know how you showcase so much knowledge and skill so effortlessly, but also are so relatable, but you do and are. This was an excellent video!
I really appreciate how honest you are about mistakes. I think we’ve all learned from them.
I'm glad mistakes get shared, I always find I learn way more from fixing mistakes than I ever do if I did the thing right in the first place.
Ooh new haircolour! Very cool!
Thank you so much for showing your mistakes. It makes us understand much better how the garment is constructed and why some steps are really important. Plus, it gives me motivation to go back to old failed projects that I did not have the courage to fix. We tend to think we are stupid when we make sewing mistakes and forget that even the best sewists have to unpick and fix their mistakes.
First off why has no one ever showed me this marking method. It’s brilliant really brilliant!! I will be using this method!! I have also saved this for future reference as I would like to try trousers some day. Second off I am so very glad that I’m not the only one who has a time out corner for misbehaving projects! I had a sweater I was knitting that spent more time in the corner than being made. I will never let my mother pick out her pattern and yarn without me ever again!!
Despite all the problems you had the trousers look amazing a stunning piece of clothing!! It’s also nice to see how you fixed things and the difference in tailoring methods.
I am a big fan of letting things sit in the corner to think about what they have done. Sometimes that can be quite a long time (cough*8years*cough). But these have come out so well and you can share with us the right order of operations. The choice of lining fabric is divine too!
One of my quilts is sitting there for over 20 years now, and still hasn't learnt how to behave 🙄
@@fiesehexe8133 some projects are slow learners!
i really appreciate that you showed the mistakes you made. as a beginner sewer, it’s really intimidating seeing a bunch of amazing historical sewers that you think do everything perfectly but even experienced sewers (and artists of any kind for that matter) make mistakes !
*I JUST MESSED UP* literally this second.
Spent 3 FULL days making a 1900's shirt and its the most perfect thing I have ever made... Tried it on and thought "this feels odd???" Did a burn test on the fabric and it some synthetic or snyth cotton blend. It was labelled as 100% cotton - but as it was a role end I cant go back and prove it.
Hopefully it's the type of synthetic that makes the fabric less likely to wrinkle? Just maybe not the best for summer wear.
@@NicoleRudolph - Its practice isn't it. I buy a lot of fabric from this person and normally they are accurate with their description, they supply vintage fabrics and I guess they got it wrong. in fairness to them, it did not feel synthetic when I was sewing it, it was only when I put it on and it has that kinda stiff feel.
Ok. Before I finish watching this video: thank you.
So much of the time I wonder why I make so many mistakes and nearly give up after tearing out and redeeming only to do it wrong.
You’re good. Like you know what you’re doing and it’s hard for me to see you making a mistake bad enough you have to tear out once much less twice.
I need to see this to help me not feel so stupid. Thank you for teaching me that I can forgive myself.
(Edit: “resew” not “redeem”)
No, no, "redeem" is a propos. It's beyond redemption only when it can't be resewed.
Its actually the mistakes we make that help us learn, even if that learning is to slow down, not sew when tired/distracted etc. I learnt not to sew tired after I sewed in a sleeve by hand, inside out, for the third! time. This is often why some of my garments need time out!
I hear you on mistakes being shown, a lot of this can get edited out and makes some of us feel real crap about our abilities.
Such a sensible and serviceable suit to chose, my dad's suits from this era always had two pairs of trousers as he often worked in his shirt sleeves. It is good to stretch yourself, you look elegant wear it.
I am yearning to watch you make a Vesta Tilley evening suit. It's a shame as I think you already have made something like that.
Birdy
I'm glad I'm not the only one who puts a "naughty" project "in the corner"! 😆
hair color is awesome. I also love how you can slide into men's wear so easily and make it look fabulous. haha my youngest daughter rocked a tux at her senior prom. I have since noticed that there are others now enjoying the same. love your work and your channel.
Knowing that experienced sewists like yourself make mistakes helps newbies like me keep going when we mess up. Thank you for sharing and we get to learn along with you.
Serious David Tennant vibes. Number 10 but 1920's!!! Love it
I just gotta say the buttonholes you did by hand were beautiful!
I love the fact that you messed up but came back to it. I jumped i to a project that I knew how I wanted to look on Tuesday and realized I got ahead of myself. I am making something I have no pattern for. So I back up and tried coming at it another way and have thought about it all week. I am ready to try again this week.
Those back pocket flaps are adorable!!!
Thank you so much for making this video! I was literally drafting a trouser block for a pair of 1930's style pants as I was watching this, and this video is a gold mine of techniques and tips and construction methods that I've been trying to research but hadn't found anything in nearly this much detail for.
The trousers are for a 3 piece suit. A "challenge project" as the most complex projects I've done to date are button down shirts. I'm so glad I just found your channel!
The music in these videos is incredible. I have been really enjoying your content and trying to decide what about them stands out from other creators. It was the music! Your narration, sewing projects, cinematography, and aesthetic are always excellent but watching you sew to this music is really the magic formula. Thank you for what you do.
Wonderful tutorial, and the mistakes turned out to be only a learning experience. I have an original Butterick pattern for trousers from ca. 1918, and it looks almost identical to what you've made here. I look forward to following some of your steps when making up a pair in the near future. Thank you!
I attempted a pair of trousers, since I can't wear high waisted pants and I gained the quarantine 15 and none of my pants fit anymore. I started with a simplicity pattern, made a mock up, changed it to fit my preferences, made another mock up, messed up the crotch curve, made another mock up and finished it, picked it apart and drafted a new pattern from the mock up, purchased fabric, and it's folded next to my sewing machine. I need to get the guts to cut it.
I am OBSESSED with this hair color on you it is STUNNING and brings out your skin and eyes so beautifully!!!
Thank you for this Video! You really sent me back to my first pair of antique-style trousers, unpicking the seam on top of the fly for the 5th time, because it came out bulky again, or caught something it should not have caught. This video was so relatable and wholesome! I really admire your honesty in showcasing how even the greatest looking outcome might have been prickly on the way!
Ahhh Nicole, that shot at the end is giving me feelings. You look so sharp! And thank you for the inside tour of the pants. Garments like these are best appreciated from the inside, I have dresses and bodices where I think the inside is almost prettier because you can see all the tidy handiwork that went into it (and silk linings are just something special)
BEAUTIFUL new hair colour! Absolutely adore it!
I can't tell you how much I enjoy your videos. And I love your current hair color!
Damn, those trousers look so good! Also, this new hair colour suit you so well.
Thank you so much for your inspiration! I love to watch your video on Sunday, and then I head to my machine and fabric stash and participate in my very own " Sewing Sunday". Today I'm finishing a cute spring dress- my very first dress!
It is in a weird way soothing to know that even someone so knowledgeable and experienced has these fighting projects. Thank you for another great and in depth video, Nicole. 🧡
As a maker of many mistakes I appreciate your inclusion of yours! Love the end product, they're gorgeous!
Thank you for your attention to detail, including your mistakes. :) I often think that the willingness to admit to the fact that accomplished sewists screw up as fantastically as newbies is as much of a gift as a well demonstrated technique. As you were talking about the corner of shame where your project lived for a length of time, I thought of my skirt sitting on the back table waiting for me to pick it up and rework the waistband yet again. Thank you for a lovely tutorial. It certainly will help my next adventure, which is a pair of trews for my husband.
These turned out really nice! I have only made tailored trousers once, for my spouse, and they ended up a little tight in the back. Maybe one day we will make another. And.... extra THANK YOU for showing how tailor tacks work with cutting the "ladder"! That was the part I didn't know and couldn't figure out!
What a beautiful finished product. I love seeing people draft men's clothes to fit other bodies
That fabric!!! So beautiful and sexy. I don't sew anymore, and was never at your level, but what I wouldn't give to have anything that fit me as well as those trousers fit you. Just beautiful.
You're so incredible, so humble and encouraging us all to smile and accept our mistakes as part of our learning path.
In short, you're incredible and I can't stop watching your videos. Thank you so much ♥️
Those trousers turned out so GOOD! Perfect fabric choice; the fit is excellent. I am so impressed by your ability to go back and rework the parts that weren't working, and the result is just *chef's kiss*
Thanks for this! There's so many tempting tailor's drafting books out there...it's both helpful and inspiring to watch you work through one of these patterns from drafting to finishing! (And I'm always ready for all the 1920s costuming content.)
Love these trousers! They fit you to a T, and look amazing!
It may have caused you some issues, but the end result looks so good!
I love how you subtly show the crack gap at the end my leaning forward, such an important part of trying on pants as a woman, don't know if men have to the the same.
Just a fantastic look altogether, very well styled with that blue shirt. (Not that anyone is surprised as Nicole has excellent style.)
Absolutely rocking the outfit Nicole! I love the tweed and the tailoring looks amazing on you.
WOW! Those are the perfect fit and drape. (And my special snowflake sensitive skin is boggling how you can do all those hand stitches without a thimble.)
I refer to this stage of the process as "Putting it into a corner to think about all the things it's currently Not doing". The 10 tries to get a mostly working bodice block took months and allot of YT tutorials... Thank you. Glad to know I'm not the only one who needs to not look at something when it's going wrong.
I actually bought a high-waisted late 80's big four pattern for an office set (thanks Stephanie Canada!) so I could base a (future) block off of the pants. Because maybe size adjusting will take less time than drafting? Thank you for covering your process for creating these pants. It's really, really, really helpful.
The pants are Stunning. The button fly is just so impressive
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
I love that tweed! I suspect the gap at the back of the waistband is to allow the braces (suspenders)to pull on the area without ripping open a seam that will travel.
Thank you! I sew skirts but that twill tape at the pockets will come in handy soon! 2021 will be the year of the blouse over here (as soon as I tie up a project here). 2022 I want to sew two skirt suit recreations and one seems to have a pocket for a pocket watch or lighter. I don’t want the pocket stretching out!
This is great! And the trousers I buy always get worn in exactly those places where you enhance them with canvas. Wonder if I should buy some canvas and "mend" my trousers before I use them.
Doing some preemptive reinforcement sounds like a very good idea.
@@ragnkja Thankyou - "preemptive reinforcement" was the expression I was looking for!
I'm loving this series, I learn so much.
This came at the best time for me. I am just starting to make a piece and the entire directions are ONE paragraph long!! This video gave me hope that I don't get so frustrated that I throw them out the second floor window of my sewing room when I make a mistake ...that will certainly happen! Did you place the rear pockets low because that is how people wore them at that time, or b/c that is where you like them? It seemed to me that if a wallet was placed in one of them, the wallet would be felt each time you sat down. I just love the suit. The fabric looked amazing and your workmanship, top notch. Thank you so much for sharing the journey, mistakes and all.
Oh, Nicole, I love the deep Auburn colour you're rocking! And, yay for rascally trews!
These trousers are absolutely gorgeous. The fabric, cut, fitting. Nobody can see some minor errors.
Nicole in the tuxedo, looking like Marlene Dietrich, is exactly the aesthetic I aspire to.
Trousers are the one thing I always struggle with and I have made myself a vow that I am going to master them one day!
I love the lining fabric and they look so comfortable
Can you do a video on how to draft/make a pair of trousers? Or how to find a good pattern for trousers? I love the style of the trousers you make!
Amazing! Thank you for showing your mistakes. It makes me feel much better as a newbie. I just picked up some wool to make a waist coast and trousers because you've inspired me. Thank you for sharing your art and your process.
I just threw a pair of, what I wanted to be, Katherine Hepburn style trousers, in the corner. I need another week before I can look at them again.
But THANK YOU. I needed to hear your words of wisdom. The good stuff takes time.
Love your videos! Keep up the good work ❤️
Wonderful trousers. Great video. Some great tips, information and links to suppliers. And a delight to find someone who owns up to their mistakes so that others may learn from them. Thanks again.
I made 9 pairs of 1920s Oxford Bags in 2 weeks (only about 4 hours sleep in total) for the men in my 1920s dance orchestra about 20 years ago - all with button flies. Very similar construction, just very big pleats, wide legs and turn-ups (cuffs). Much less hand work - I must confess. I used a modern commercial a zoot suit pattern (based on 1940s patterns) and modified this using some old tailoring books I have from the 1910s, 20s and early 30s to get the desired shape. I know it was partially cheating, but I needed to know that all the trousers would fit the players well enough to be worn for performances a few days later (Napier Art Deco Weekend, New Zealand) and had neither the time, nor skills to draft all 9 pairs for 9 very different sized musicians. I also had to compromise on using gabardine rather than wool flannel for budget reasons. But all things considered was reasonably pleased with the results.
Also - the David Coffin book you recommend is a really wonderful resource - as is his book on shirt making. I wish it had been available when I made my 9 pairs of Oxford Bags. I would suggest anyone with an interest in these things to get copies of both books.
What a beautiful suit. I started with the same pattern and noped out halfway into drafting 😅 I'm happy to see the finished product even if it's not mine! I'm sticking to the waistcoat.
At the end of that road full of trials and mishaps, all I can say is that it was worth it.
Those trousers look *so good* 😍
Thank you for sharing the road, potholes and all!
Love the trousers and indeed they fit nicely. Beautifully both front and back.
Good work.. Figuring out what went wrong is an important ingredient.. It was especially inspiring when I read that Julia Child was a horrible cook, it's why she went to cooking school. Knowing how to screw up allows us information on how to correct problems as well as the importance of putting things in the right order.
The end tour of the inside was so helpful! It really made some things "klik" in how and why some parts are constructed. Thanks and beautiful results as always😍😍😍😍😍😍
What an interesting tutorial on men's trouser history!
Speaking of problem pockets... I have a pocket I was making off sitting in the corner to think about what it did (the ribbon I got to bind the edges is falling apart. It's fraying away from my stitches and I'm mad because it was expensive)
I feel so seen haha. I had so many difficulties making trousers recently. More than any other project, trousers are the strictest on order of operations. Even one mistake tends to have a cascading effect, and if you mess up-all is lost. Kidding! but trousers are humbling to be sure.
Great video - I learned a lot! It's nice to see that even professionals have to redo stuff sometimes! Gives me hope...
Lovely pants and vest. Beautiful tweed, I would like some of that. Thank you, inspirational.
That tailcoat and top hat was SMASHING!!! 🎩
Thank you so much for sharing your mistakes. It's a great leraning opportunity and actually quite comforting to know that even experienced people make mistakes.
The back pocket flap was such a joy watching come together! I don't why the stitching of that flap had such an imprint on me but it was so neat and crisp!
I love how these trousers look! Thank you for showing the mistakes and the fixing.
Your videos always make me want to go do some hand sewing! Thank you so much for sharing the whole process with all of us
Those look gorgeous and comfortable
I love your new hair!! Ill be honest I fell in love with your videos when I could hear each thread sliding through the fabric. That sound is just magical. Not to mention you showcase the "harder" aspects of garment making. I am making a vest for my husband to match my wedding gown. I was wondering where you source horse hair (all i have is tarlatan) and light weight leather?
They are truly lovely.
I love the way you tack everything before you sew.
The finished trousers are terrific
These are really beautiful. Good job, my friend!
Looking fabulous Nicole
Those came out lovely!
This was a very detailed video! I love to see Nicole has issues like us plebs, and that she fixed her issues.
They fit like a dream!
Beautiful fabrics, finish and fit!
These are beautiful. I'm not a girly girl so have been put off historical sewing as I would never wear a poofy dress. However, of I ever get good enough I would definitely like to make and wear a pair of these. :)
Your videos are so visually stunning! Appreciate your honesty.
That back of waistband split is still a feature in men's suit tailoring! I've particularly seen it in Italian suits, which I'd guess is because Italian tailoring runs slim, and that split helps prevent the fabric stretching over the seat when the wearer sits.
Thank you for showing your mistakes! Sometimes things get a little too perfect on costube, and it's always nice to see that other people make as many errors as I do!
This was wonderfully informative and inspirational, thank you for sharing
Dear Glorious Human!
Thank you 🙏🏻 so much for sharing things gone amiss. If we don’t make errors, we aren’t learning anything new. It’s super helpful when someone with greater knowledge makes the mistake and shares how to deal with the things.
All too often we are not allowed into this hidden world where the greatest amount of learning happens. We are left believing some magical things occur for all those on the TH-cams, and we mere mortals are left feeling hopelessly inadequate then give up. I firmly believe this to be the birthplace of most UFOs. So, again, thank you 🙏🏻
Very clear and easy to understand
That's fantastic. You look super fly, honey. Great work.
Your trousers turned out beautiful and the fit is *chef's kiss*