Friday, March 21, 2014

PANTS REFASHION: super easy shorts

PAIR OF CHARLIE'S CARGO PANTS
MY HUSBAND'S OLD PAIR OF CARGO PANTS

I'm in the process of working on more complicated refashions, but I decided to take 30 minutes to quickly refashion a pair of my husband's old cargo pants. The pants fit nicely for me, but my husband is a good foot taller than I am.

I MADE A CUT AN INCH OR TWO BELOW THE SIDE POCKETS.
I MADE A CUT AN INCH OR TWO BELOW THE SIDE POCKETS.

Not surprisingly, I needed to alter the hem of the pants to fit my super short legs. Due to the lovely warm weather in my area, I decided to turn the cargo pants into shorts for me. I briefly debated about taking in the side seam but decided against it.

SIMPLE HEM
SEWING MY SIMPLE HEM


I simply cut off the legs an inch or two below the side pockets and hemmed them near my knees. When I have more time, I'll probably take a closer look at the side pockets to see if I can pick them off. I'm not a big fan of the big side pockets, but I'll leave them for now.

LOOK AT MY SEXY LEGS! THIS IS MY ATTEMPT AT USING THE CAMERA TIMER AND TRIPOD OUTSIDE MY TOWNHOME.
MY HILARIOUS FAILED ATTEMPTED AT USING THE CAMERA TIMER AND TRIPOD.


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Jennifer Elliott
Posted by jennifer elliott at 20:10
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3 comments:

Andrea said...

First off, I'm jealous that your weather is warm enough for shorts! Second, way to make your husband's pants work for you :) I recently tried a pair of my husband's pants on and they fit surprisingly well! I even have a couple pairs of his old dress pants to hack up...hehehe

Andrea EOD

21 March 2014 at 22:18
Em said...

None of the pictures are showing up for me on this post

22 March 2014 at 03:37
jennifer elliott said...

Poop. Sorry about that, Em. I'll replace the pics now. Hopefully, that will do the trick.

22 March 2014 at 19:22

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