David Page Coffin looks at some $1000 Pants

An excerpt from David's CD-Rom-based workshop on all aspects of Pants Making, Tailoring Techniques for Timeless Details on Men and Women's Trousers. More info here:
http://sewing.patternreview.com/onmakingpants.html

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Sewing
• tailoring
• pants
• armani
• trousers
• david
• page
• coffin
• diy
• fashion
• crafts

[chocolatekid66]

wheres the sound????

[DavidCoffin]

Starts at 0:18.

[monkeyhelpme]

I just tuned in to this video and would like to ask why women's pants do not have a split waistband. Even the cheapest of men's pants has this and mid-range women's do not. Any reasoning to this?

[DavidCoffin]

Good question, altho there are certainly men's pants without split bands, like jeans, for example. I've got a nice pair of Brooks Brothers linen pants with a single band. Jeans don't have them because the center-back seam is flat-felled and can't be expanded. Any other pants that don't have them will also not have any extra seam allowance width at the back to allow for expansion. Why they don't is because it's easier/faster to sew on a single band. And so you buy new pants if you get bigger.

[Saffron49]

If this is the inside fabric, what is the outside fabric made of?

[DavidCoffin]

A nice wool, perhps a crepe, if I recall correctly. You can see them on a model in Threads magazine, February/March 1995 - #57; pages 38-43.

[DavidCoffin]

That's the typical way lining is done on men's high-quality pants (I guess because men don't like fully lined pants; I don't), and Armani's basic formula for years was women's wear made like the best men's wear. A quarter lining (that's what this is called) is cheaper obviously, and it might offer better protection against baggy knees compared to a full lining.

[SuchaCaligrrl]

Q: why are the pants only lined from the front and not the back?

[amjahn]

Great construction tips for those of us wanting to sew superior quality pants.

[cazzo53]

And this is Cheap compared to other Pants out there..