Hello! I’ve been taking part in One Week One Pattern again. Where we wear a representative of one pattern, for every day of a week. I am completely unable to resist a clothing challenge and particularly one tied up with sewing, so I signed up immediately 🙂
Before it started I did a quick recce of my clothes and checked the weather forecast. I have several contenders for the pattern I could have used but given the winter-y type of week we were expecting I went for the warmest option! my jeans collection, made using Burda 7863. At the time of signing up I had six left; two others have been chucked out. So quick sticks I made another, the last pale coffee pair, so I could get through the week without doubling up. Not that I’m, um like, weirdly obsessive about things like that or anything 😉
So, some thoughts;
1. black stretch corduroy:
probably one of my least favourites, which is kinda ironic given that black jeans are supposed to be such a fabulous wardrobe staple. I don’t know why I’m so ambivalent about these jeans. They are useful, but I pretty much only wear them when I’m travelling or if I’m in a rare mood for black.
2. burnt orange stretch corduroy;
old, very comfy and long term favourites, but if I’m brutally honest these look pretty awful now. For at home, doing chores, only. I’ve come thisclose to making them into a skirt. This might still happen at some point.
3. burnt brown stretch bengaline;
my cool new ones and the current favourites. I’m very much in love with everything about them – the colour! love it so much!!!! – and am really excited about their possibilities with my other autumnally coloured stuff.
4. white stretch denim flares;
still sort of nice, even though they’re not really very fashionable I still like wearing them a lot. I sorta go in and out of love with them. It’s nice to have some flares to mix things up a bit too.
5. olive/grey stretch gabardine;
My oldest pair, that have even outlasted my two other Burda 7863’s. I’ve gone through short periods of hating these too, but I always hang onto them because I absolutely know I’ll come around to loving them again. Actually I would be a bit devastated if they died. The fabric is really the nicest, classiest, and probably the best quality out of all my jeans, ever.
6. cafe au lait stretch bengaline;
my newest ones, made up quick so I could have seven representatives for the challenge and not really loved yet. I’m a bit uninspired by them right now but I’m sure they’ll come into their own soon enough. Maybe when worn with my lighter ivories and whites. I do like outfits that are a mix of pale neutrals.
To be honest… I’m struggling to like them. Something terrible happened. I liked them at first, and then all of a sudden the words “beige slacks” popped into my head. And the rose-tinted glasses fell away from my eyes and an awful new reality was revealed. In my group of friends we have a bit of a joke about “beige slacks”. As in, isn’t it the most un-stylish thing you can imagine. Not necessarily the things themselves, sometimes you see pants of this colour looking just gorgeous although, granted, not always. It’s mostly just the words, “beige slacks” that kill the dream, all your hopeful ideas that you might be looking nice today. I’m trying to tell myself that my jeans are nice, that they are cafe au lait bootlegs, which sounds kinda smart but I might be kidding myself. I think they might be beige slacks. Oh, the horror.
7. pale grey non-stretch corduroy;
made into a skirt; and yes these might not look like jeans but they do fit in with the group! originally this skirt was a pair of jeans made using Burda 7863. The knees got all stretched out and saggy, but the upper bit was fine and the colour is so great so I re-made them into this skirt as described here. I still love this strange little jeans/skirt, and think I’m within the rules to count them in my Burda 7863 line-up, yes?!
My OWOP14 Flickr set with links to the individual pieces worn each day can be viewed here…
So, obviously I love this pattern so I won’t go on about it. Jeans are comfy and practical and warm, so yay. But after a whole week of wearing jeans I am really looking forward to getting back to my skirts and dresses. I was so pleased I could wear a skirt on the last day, today!
I absolutely want to have a go at the is pattern. I am going to request it for my next Minerva make, the craft company I blog for. They have all the nifty notions, studs, metal buttons and top stitching thread too. You look great in them – my bottom is slightly bigger but I am sure they will be fine. Jo xx
You know what…I think any trousers that are called slacks are never going to be cool regardless of colour. I am pretty sure slacks are something my grandmother reluctantly wore in the depths of winter. I like the new beige ones because they match everything. I love my beige pants and prefer to think if them as chinos, although now…..
De-lurking here to say that the "beige slacks" look lovely. Also paired with white. One of my favourite combos. So crisp and Safari-ish. I'd call them Safari pants instead. (That even embraces the Burda-ness of them ha-ha!)
Slacks are absolutely pleated, made of polyester, high waisted, shapeless, hemmed too short and your lovely cafe au lait trousers come nowhere near so don't stress! Nice work. I'll have my OWOP trouser fest up at Chez Tragic soon….
You have an amazing collection of jeans and please there is no way that your cafe au lait jeans are "beige slacks", the style and fit is so different to the real thing! Love the way you have styled the photo each day.
Truly, they're not even on speaking terms with beige slacks! It's a lovely collection overall, and really inspiring to see just how much mileage can be gotten out of one pattern.
Meh, I think you're being too hard on yourself! Slacks always makes me think of something that's been lined, and in the winter here, lined pants are a life saved 🙂
You're cafe au lait bootleg jeans are clearly lovely.
OMG, I just wrote "you're" instead of "your". Suicide by grammar.
Those are all great. Its like you are reminding me how much I want to get back to my jeans pattern and really get it fitting well.
Agree with the above comments — they all look great to me:)
You look fantastic in all these renditions. I have a few Burda trouser patterns, but not this one. Think I may have to purchase it as they seem to fit so well and really look great in a variety of styles!
I completely love your OWOP choice, such a versatile idea as all the trousers (and one skirt) look quite different. I was going to do OWOP with the Coco tops I made but we are having some late summer sun in the UK and I'd have been much too hot. I don't have enough of any one pattern for summer yet. One day!
At one point in my younger life (middle school) I owned eight iterations of the same dress. They were all green — different greens, different prints, but the same scooped neck, inset midriff, dirndle skirt, with double-tiered flounce sleeves. I loved that dress. I still have the pattern for it, 40+ years later — but not the figure, lol. I'm glad you have a truly tried-and-true pattern for trews, it is a difficult gem to find.
Holy cow – these are great jeans. I love that you made them! I shall gaze at the pattern and sigh. I know the skills don't come overnight but with baby steps I might make it there some day.
What a fabulous job you have done with all of your jeans!
Great collection! I love the fact that a skirt popped into your week of wearing jeans! x
Seven for seven, that's a pretty good week of one pattern. They all look great.