I really like the Colette Iris shorts. They are a great pair of classy shorts and the ones I made with my
giveaway denim are on high rotation in my wardrobe. I plan to make another pair, but I also like a slightly slouchier, baggier short.
For ever I have had a pair of shorts pinned on my
pinterest board from
Hello Beautiful The problem is that they are for a little girl. Not a woman of substantial more years...but I didn't care and continuted to think about them. Oh who cares about age appropriate!
I was down at the fabric shop on Saturday for no other reason than it was Saturday and they are closed on Sunday and I have a voucher so was looking for something to do (!!!?) and found some navy linen which reminded me that I wanted to make a pair of baggy/cuffed shorts. I then started flicking through the pattern books (which I never do) for shorts patterns and found Burda 7227 which I figured looked easy enough and sort of the same style. So given all the patterns were half price I bought it and 1.4 m (as per pattern). By the way, I was surprised that these shorts would need that much fabric but there you go.
Once I got home I googled the pattern and found the cheekychacha had made them for her daughter. Not sure what to say about my style icons! A 5 year old and a tween.. feeling a bit like a phoney making a burda 'young' pattern I continued. I wanted them to be slightly 'rounder' than the pattern picture, so cut out the 12 although realistically should have cut the 10 as there is a bit too much fabric around the waist which you can see bunching up a bit in the photos.
The make is easy but seemed to take me quite a while to finish. I used elastic in the waist as per the pattern but instead of putting elastic in the legs, gathered (not very evenly sadly) the legs and added the cuff on.
There's not much more to say except that pocket sits pretty low so it's hard to comfortably put your hands in - I feel like I have to lean down. Clearly made for someone with longer arms.
I think this is a semi success. I'm a fan of these shorts despite the fact that they might not be the most flattering thing I own. I feel very comfortable in the style. It feels me. The only thing is that despite wanting a slouchy, casual elastic waisted short, I now feel that the elastic in the waist lets it down and I probably should have looked harder for a style with a zip closure.
But will I wear them? You bet! In fact I'm going to wear this exact outfit to work tomorrow for 'casual' friday.
The shorts are of course paired with my
Valentino Silk Scout tee and yes, I have to take those Christmas lights out of the garden this weekend!
