Keeping the shorts in the family

My husband once bought some very expensive shorts in a fit of extravagance. It was a little bit of a joke for a while, until he wore them virtually every day. After about ten years, they started to disintegrate. I repaired them once, and at that stage, his mother started hating them, and telling him not to wear them.

So his shorts finally died (see picture).

Mainly in order to torment his mother, but also to make hubby happy, I refashioned them into some long pants for MrJ, using a pair of his pants as a pattern.

It was a very easy refashion, except that I managed to make the waist too narrow, and had to add a crotch gusset. I don’t mind the look of that in the end, as it works well.

My favourite bit of these shorts in the features that have been kept from the original shorts. The cuff is worn, the badge is still there. I used the back pocket to reinforce the knee (the fabric is really soft and fragile in places). The front pockets are in the anatomically correct space, although they are sewed up. And there is a nice contrast between the faded and unfaded portions of the old shorts.

And is my son wearing pink stripy socks? Yes. Any problems?

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