P has been loving his oversized Jalie trackpants which I've made him 4 pairs of now (and a pair of shorts) and made zero notes or blog posts about how oversized or how much extra leg length. He also has a pair of black denim Thread Theory cargo pants that were upsized to a 34 waist (then elasticated) and extra leg length added, also undocumented.
Anyway, he ever so kindly asked me for some massively oversized jeans...
I toyed with the idea of just up sizing a pattern I already had and then cinching in the waist with elastic, but I'd already done that with the Thread Theory and he wanted even bigger. Anyway, pattern shopping sounded much more appealing. I typed something like "ridiculously baggy men's jeans sewing pattern" into a search engine and found a few new to me sewing pattern companies specialising in men's patterns.
I landed on the Mascultory Baggy Jeans_02 an even daggier-crotched baggy version of their Baggy Jeans pattern.
They're single size patterns and he has a good two size discrepancy between waist and hips (as does his dad). While the pattern suggested choosing by hip size for pants I went with waist size as otherwise I was worried they'd just fall straight off him. His waist put him at upper end of size 28 and his hips at the upper end of 32. I went with a size 30.
Instant download and emailed straight to Creffield digital print and I had the pattern in my hands the next day.
The instructions were all on a Youtube tutorial which is not my favourite way to work, but it was clearly presented and nicely done. The buttonfly was the first one I've done and it came together very neatly. All the pattern markings were clear and the whole pattern experience was very good.
The pattern helpfully give an outer leg length measurement (waist to hem) but I'd only measured the kid's inner leg and I had no idea how low that crotch would be. I added 20cm length when I cut the fabric to be safe but ended up removing all but 7cm of it. Still, if they're going to be ludicrously oversized they can not be too short!
I gave the back pockets a bit of mountain bike embroidery but I was restricted by the black only instructions. I did sneak some reflective silver tape under the pocket edges and threw some labels on.
The fabric was some stashed cotton drill from SuperCheap Fabrics if I remember correctly, so all up, with pattern purchase, printing and fabric it was probably less than $40 total.
And he loves them like they're worth tent times that. Happy days (just don't forget to tuck them into your socks before you get on your bike kiddo)
