The Pants
Our pants are made for women, by women. They're not bedroom pants, seduction pants or hello boys (or girls) pants - they a a little bit of gorgeous, just for you, every day. These are the sorts of pants women buy for themselves, for their sisters, their friends – a gorgeous gift in itself but with the added, ‘look, by buying these I helped make jobs’ bonus.
We make perfectly fitting stretch lace shorts in a range of colours and lace designs, in sizes 8 – 18 (more info on sizing here They are designed to fit beautifully by our brilliant, internationally experienced designer Emma Kidd.
Our pants are your every day, under your work clothes, reliable, non disappearing into awkward places, pants. The shape is common across the high street – from the pile ‘em high and sell it cheap shops via the mainstream department stores and designers all the up to the highest end stuff. It’s a really easy shape to wear and we tend towards block colours so that you can match them up with your existing bras.
Styles
Right now we make two styles for women ( we don’t yet do mens, or cotton, or kids, or different designs) our gorgeous Aimee stretch lace shirts, and Rosalind, a Brazilian styled higher cut 'skimpier' short. Every new recruit starts by working on the Aimee style and then moves onto the Rosalind style as they get more skilled. We're are working with a team who had never sewn pants before. It’s not like dressmaking at all, it’s more complicated, and so we’re teaching one thing at a time. We also have plans for more styles, when our team a ready for their next challenge.
Fabrics
The fabrics we use are perfect, traditional synthetic lingerie fabrics left over from big underwear factories at the end of season. They come in a variety of depths, colours and have varying levels of elastane. The depth of lace and amount of elastane affect the fit and so we will tweak the patterns for each new fabric – or often make new ones up – to ensure our fit is consistent across all the fabrics we use. Oh, and all the pants are lined with a cotton jersey gusset, and again, this is reclaimed fabric too.
As the fabrics we use are reclaimed, we rarely know the exact breakdown of the fibre content - oftentimes we get no information on the fibres at all. Because of this, we label them all as 'mixed fibres'. We do know that they tend to include polyamide, nylon, elastane, and occasionally viscose. Also, as the fabrics are reclaimed, when they are gone, they are gone.
We focus on using these fabrics as opposed to cotton/hemp/bamboo as there are lots of people making those kinds of pants already, and we know there is a whole bunch of women out there who want to buy gorgeous AND lacey pretty lovely, so this is for them - for you!
Finally, due to the way we source our fabrics, there may occasionally be slight shade or pattern differences from those pictured.
