Workingman Pants x 2

Not all in life is party and glamour! We also have to work, and if we can do it in comfort and style, much better. My husband is a postman, and the company gives them their corporate clothes, but everything is polyester and besides that, he is tall and thin, and therefore, standard size pants do not fit him well. 

For those reasons, I have been making his working pants for some years now, in corduroy for winter, and in cotton for summer. I found this thin cotton twill, with a bit of elastane in it, online, in the UK, and I bought 5 m of it. I have made two in a row now, because he did not have any left (he breaks them all with wear in two or three seasons, so the rotation is high). 

I made the pattern using Aldrich's book, specially for my love's measures, but after 10 years of using it, I lost 1 side and I had to make it again. For the second pair, I decided to use some worn down Dockers which fit him well to make the pattern.

Of the two patterns, my own is nice, but maybe the legs are too wide, and I do not like how the zip turned out. Of the second pair, the Dockers copycat, I think the bottom is too baggy. 

When I make the next pair in winter, I think I'll use my pattern but with slimmer legs.