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Latest Design: Military Culottes

10/30/2018

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​Zipping up our latest design! Military inspired high waisted culottes for ya. For this design, we experimented with button holes, volume and our love for pockets.
Khaki Green Military Culotte Pants

Project Specs

  • Drafting to final stitch took approximately  6 hours over the course of 5 days
  • 2.5 Meters of army green polyester fabric
  • 0.2 Meters of fusible interfacing
  • 1 spool of green thread
  • 1 medium sized button
  • Buttonhole stitched on a Janome 525S
  • Stitched on a Juki DDL 8300 and hand stitched
  • Raw edges over-locked on a JUKI MO-6816 Industrial  over-lock (serger) machine​

​Fabric

​This gorgeous fabric was picked up in Calgary at Fabricland. Sheila makes it a point to do her fabric shopping rounds every time she visits her hometown. Yee Ha! This past trip she had to check in an extra piece of luggage just for fabric.

​Design Elements

These are definitely not your basic pair of wide leg pants. Here is some insight into our experimental process with the patch pockets and some sewing tips on buttons and button holes.
Khaki Green Military Culotte Pants

Oversized Patch Pockets

Not all pockets are supposed to be functional. Although, we did test it out and YES, you can fit a laptop in the larger pocket. Both side seams rock a smaller (usable) patch pocket.

We played around with the placement of the larger pocket (just on one side). Notice how the larger pocket is pulling the main pant leg? Due to its size, the side seams at the opening needed to be placed further away from the Center Back/Center Front of the body to avoid this. Nonetheless, we still love the drape of the over-sized pocket!
Khaki Green Military Culotte Pants

Waistband Button Extension

We dove into our big ol' button jar for this gem. You cannot see it, but it is an old button from Jacob! Anyone remember that clothing store?
Khaki Green Military Culotte Pants

Buttonhole Sewing Tips

1. Always test out a machine sewn buttonhole on scrap fabric (2 layers).

2. The buttonhole should be big enough for the button to slide through with a hair bit of resistance as it may stretch out over time.
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3. Trim down any excess bulk in your seam allowance, especially if placing a  buttonhole along a waistband. The more inconsistent the thickness of fabric under the foot, the more sensitive your sewing machine will be to not sew correctly.
Khaki Green Military Culotte Pants Button

Waist Darts

Given the high waisted waistband of these culottes we created shaping to hug our curves with straight darts in the front and back, radiating from the waist.
Khaki Green Military Culotte Pants

​Final Design

Voila! ​This was a quick sew, under a week, in between clients (sometimes not in between hehe). Almost no hand sewing was used for these design elements.
Khaki Green Military Culotte Pants
Happy Sewing!
Designed, photographed and written by Sheila Wong Studios
2 Comments
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11/4/2019 04:49:44 pm

The only problem that I have in this style is the struggle to pee! Other than that, culottes will always make a lady even more stylish. I am happy that fashion gurus have brought its back to the trend and it's literally screaming fashion to me. These Military Culotte is something that I want to try when there is a casual event that will require me to dress up; probably a fashion event or a family gathering. The earthly vibe of this makes me want you to do more!

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