AI6YR BenI suppose I should document making my pajama pants, rather than just making them. 🤔
(pattern I purchased for $2 at the thrift store is BRAND NEW. Will not cut it, will trace it) #sewing
Let's put this up for a poll, lol.
Document it in detail
Just the overall steps
This is boring, I'm changing the channel
Why are you asking us?!?!
Poll ended at .
First, the question of sizing. Hip size standing is 42, but hip size sitting down is more like 45. Since these are pajama pants, going larger. Large. Not in this package, but I will just scale it out. #sewing #scrubpants
Not cutting the pattern, after hearing from everyone here telling me to try not to do that. #sewing #pajamas
Using white tracing paper was a mistake. The sheet still has many white areas. Had to get a headlamp to see things. And trace over the pattern again with chalk. Terrible phone in the way photo. #sewing #pajamas
Completed cutting these the other night. Not too complex. Fabric wrinkles from the Japanese style dying definitely made it a challenge, those wrinkles do not iron out lol. (Tied tightly and nearly boiled, they are pretty set). Will make cool looking pants though with the texture. #sewing #pajamas
LESSON: instead of directly trading the pattern onto the fabric, I should have traced the pattern onto another piece of paper, and THEN cut out the pattern on that paper and used it to mark/cut the fabric. The very large piece of tissue paper pattern was extremely difficult to manage. #sewing
Okay, too tired to sew this, but made one step forward. Mystery instructions on buttonhole, which I skipped. Will ponder where this actually is later. Or, I need to pull out the pattern again. #sewing #pajamapants
(there's only 8 pieces to this thing, plus a tie, so it should be fast... but, I am easily distracted, and I have a huge "task switching" penalty I have to overcome for most things, lol). #sewing
Next is the buttonhole, which went all wrong. Later I found I had ironed on the interfacing on the wrong side. And my buttonholes was not happy about the stretch in this fabric. #sewing #pajamas
Okay, pocket geometry was a big mystery. Figured it all out, but the pockets are inadequate and tiny, and suck lol. If I redo this or do them again, I make the pockets significantly deeper and wider. #sewing #pajamas
Cannot decode patch pocket instructions. Facing and inside outside thing makes no sense. 🤔 Already sewed one (probably wrong) but multiple leasons and issues here too. #sewing
Okay, got the pockets attached, and sewed the two legs together.
Before I forget, the two lessons:
1. Do not sew the inside leg together before pockets. Had to pull them apart!
2. Mark the pocket location with something besides chalk. it all rubbed off, no idea where they are supposed to go, just stuck them where I wanted.
Anyway, no photos yet, but top of the pants have about 6 inches too wide of a waist, lol. They are pajamas, so loose is good... but that might be too lose. ON THE OTHER HAND, I can do hand to hand martial arts in these. OR, I could film a music video. The bottoms are wide as bell bottoms, too, ha ha ha.
Hips are 6 inches too wide. Will be using these as pajamas, but I still need to take in the hips. The bottoms are as wide as 1970's bell bottoms, lol. These would be terrible, terrible as medical scrubs. #sewing #pajamas
Ah, these have a theme song
Bell Bottom Trousers
George Paxton and his Orchestra; Dotty Reid; Jaffe
Bell Bottom Trousers : George Paxton and his Orchestra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Performer: Dotty ReidWriter: JaffeVocal.Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are...
ACTUALLY, these have a lot of theme songs in various styles...
https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=bell+bottom+trousers
Bell Bottom Trousers Polka 😂
BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS POLKA : BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance Orchestra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Performer: BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance OrchestraWriter: Walter EigerInstrumental; King of the Polkas.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute....
Better than the COMMANDO POLKA
🤪
COMMANDO POLKA : BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance Orchestra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Performer: BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance OrchestraWriter: Brunon KrygerInstrumental; Mus.; King of the Polkas.Digitized at 78 revolutions per...
(for those not familiar with the slang)
Darth Osler
Big Balls - Scratch21 (AC/DC Cover)
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@ai6yr
No shirt, no shoes, no service
No shirt, no shoes, no service
Janice in GA@ai6yr That's what you play for when you wear your kilt.
@Archergal lololol
tlariv
Existentialist Polka - The Polkaholics
Pusher of Pixels@ai6yr the B side is always the sleeper hit
BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS POLKA
BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS POLKA : BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance Orchestra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Performer: BRUNON KRYGER and his International Dance OrchestraWriter: Walter EigerInstrumental; King of the Polkas.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute....
AccordionBruce@ai6yr
You can hear the accordion on the commando one though
We’ll have to program that one on #AccordionNoir radio 📻
I think the “commando” 🚫🩲 usage dates to Vietnam so must have been something else as the flip side of the Navy-targeted Bellbottom disk in 1945
Here’s a bio of the band leader Brunen Kryger who had fought for Poland in the First World War before emigrating to the US
https://ampoleagle.com/the-king-of-polkas-had-a-musical-family-p15219-191.htm
teledyn 𓂀it is a very old song theme …
https://youtu.be/cDGkG6fYOQ8?si=j3mjtFxYX-islKeu
Oscar Brand - Bell Bottom Trousers
Chris Nelder 🤘pre-code 🤣
@teledyn @chrisnelder Oh my, finally listened to the whole thing
Oscar Brand was a famous collector of such historic folksongs 😊
Our folk music traditions are not alone in suffering this present-day and relatively newly imposed sex-phobic puritan paranoiac censorship. Apparently even the curators of Antiquities somehow believe their parents never had sex, and grandparents definitely not 🤣
https://www.tumblr.com/shiningroyalty/817881162176462848/dovewithscales-darkvioletcloud?source=share
@teledyn @ai6yr 🤣 I'm actually a bit of a connoisseur of ribald music from the 20s-50s. The early blues artists had some especially spicy stuff. Here's a fun one that Zappa covered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-n5vG2SjJY
The Clovers - Rotten Cocksuckers' Ball
Paul_IPv6@paul_ipv6 Why so many songs with "bell bottom" in it? lol
@ai6yr @paul_ipv6
The Boswell Sisters one is even a V Disk from late in the run before they shut down after the war
They’re pretty rare because they were ordered destroyed in 1949 and somebody even went to jail for trying to hoard some 😨
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Disc
A bunch turned up on a base in Tacoma in a storage closet in the 1990s and some guy figured they said to trash them so…
@AccordionBruce @paul_ipv6 I had a large stash of those V-Discs under my parents stairway. Maybe still there, unless my dad threw them out in a fit of purging. (my mom would have asked). I bought them at a garage sale in Palo Alto, California, for $10.
@AccordionBruce @paul_ipv6 I wonder if I should get them to a museum, lol.
@ai6yr @paul_ipv6
Yes!
Consult the @internetarchive maybe?
@ai6yr @paul_ipv6 @internetarchive
I think there’s ones that are known to have been made, but no know copies, like lost films
But I’m no expert
@AccordionBruce @paul_ipv6 @internetarchive Hmm, will have to text my dad to make sure he doesn't throw them out 😬
The 54 Studio 🪩🕺🏻💊👃🍬
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bellbottoms (official video)
CassandraVert
Derek And The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues ( studio version)
deewani@ai6yr Pockets on PJs important. Since the fire I never sleep in shorts or PJs without them. Lovely color.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@ai6yr Arimatsu is near the house, if you ever decide to visit Nagoya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimatsu,_Aichi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimatsu,_Aichi
