Re: MtMan-List: Leggings into pants

[Les Chaffin <chaflesl@isu.edu>]

I have found that leggin are very comfortable to wear.  So I would leave
them as is.  If you are worried about showing your rear side then make a
pair of period underware there is a pattern in the last Buckskinning
book.

Les


Roger Lahti wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir:
> 
> My first effort at brain tanning back in the late 60's went into a pair of
> leggens of no particular tribal style. If anything they were more eastern than
> plains but too long for traditional eastern, well anyway. I got the idea after
> a few years to turn them into a pare of pants with some scraps of the same
> brain tanning efforts.  It wasn't all that difficult to make a seat piece and
> a front piece and sew them in. I used a straight or french fly rather than
> drop front and that seemed to work the best. I wore them for several years and
> finally made another pair of leggens out of two other brain tan deer hides,
> again in an eastern style.
> 
> My conclusions on the whole project was that I should have left the leggens as
> leggens in the first place. I did not find that making them into pants was a
> very satisfactory enterprise. My advice is to leave them be. If I had some
> leggens potlached onto me as you did and they were of sufficient girth, I
> would be inclined to make a pair of cloth britches to wear under them and make
> them look more like the leggens worn by the whites in the fur trade era as
> depicted by Miller et.al.
> 
> Hope my thoughts have been of some help. I remain...
> 
> YMOS
> Capt. Lahti
> 
> Henry B. Crawford wrote:
> 
> > Friends,
> >
> > A friend gave me a pair of brain-tanned Lakota leggings he made.  I'm
> > thinking of making a pair of pants out of 'em.  I've got some brain tan to
> > match.  Are there any special techniques for patterning the front and seat
> > and attaching them to the existing legs?
> >
> > TIA,
> > HBC
> >
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