Double Period Project 1812 / 1912

The next article of clothing to be made for the man's 1812 walkinng or promenade suit, are the trousers. Fall front trousers to be exact.  Although, breeches were still being worn, trousers according to the  literature were increasing being worn by men from all walks of life. 

I had attempted to make fall front breeches before and met my Waterloo.  They never got beyond the mockup stage.  I hated them. There were two styles, the wide fall front and the small fall front.  From the illustrations and paintings, it seemed to me, that the trousers were all wide fall front.  So, I will be making wide fall front trousers.

Notice in the illustration above, you can  barely discern that trousers are fall front.  However, they are and wide ones at that.

Even in this painting, you can clearly see the fall front.  In this case, these are breeches, you can see the button closures at the knee.

Once again, the wide fall front is just barely visual.  Getting that fall to lay properly is really difficult.  You don't want a big bunch of material where the fall starts.  In all of the above pictures, there appears to be a very clean transition.  This could just be the illustrations and painting omitting the problem bunching that can occur in this area. The aim is to have a very clean transition.