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Posted on: 7/18/10 5:42 PM ET
A while ago there was a link posted on here to a review (on another site) of an amazing pair of jeans a guy made for his girlfriend. I tried to find it again but the search engine is not being my friend today.
On these jeans he had flat felled (hope thats the right term) and topstitched both the inside and outside leg seams.
How did he do that? How was he able to do the second seam after the first one had been sewn together?

I found it!! Amazing Jeans
You can clearly see in some of the photos that both the inside and outside leg seams have been twin topstitched. How??
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Posted on: 7/18/10 7:51 PM ET
Either the inside or the outside is done with the jeans flat. Depends on how you construct your pants. It has to be done from the inside with the right side on the inside. In long narrow legs like the ones pictured it's certainly not the easiest thing to do. But, it can be done. I would not use a double needle though. I prefer using a bigger jeans needle for topstitching on denim.
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Posted on: 7/18/10 7:52 PM ET
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One seam is easy, but the second seam you have to stitch inside the tube of the leg.

The way that I do it is I treat the outside leg seam first. Then I sew the inside leg seam, do your trimming and pressing of the seam, and then turn the leg inside out and stitch starting at the crotch. You can sew about 3 inches before you have to kind of rearrange the fabric around the needle, but if you go slow and are very careful you can do it. When you get to the end of the seam, raise the needle, cut your threads, and pull the whole length of the leg back out from under the needle.

Does that make sense?
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Posted on: 7/19/10 0:59 AM ET
You know what I found interesting the other day...it's slightly off track, but I found it interesting LOL.
My Sister and BIL buy only the very best, Armani pjs, etc. Well I was doing the washing, and there was a pair of Armani jeans (don't worry I am getting there LOL). So I thought I'd take a look at the construction. Was I shocked to see there was NO true flat felling anywhere in the jeans. It was all just stitched, overlocked, and then top stitched.
I was actually really surprised.
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Posted on: 7/19/10 2:07 AM ET
I'm so glad to know Armani does that too
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Posted on: 7/19/10 2:28 AM ET
Thanks for the tips. I intend to try this on my next pair of jeans, because we all know jeans are just not a bit enough challenge on their own..lol
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Posted on: 7/19/10 2:29 AM ET
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You know what I found interesting the other day...it's slightly off track, but I found it interesting LOL.

My Sister and BIL buy only the very best, Armani pjs, etc. Well I was doing the washing, and there was a pair of Armani jeans (don't worry I am getting there LOL). So I thought I'd take a look at the construction. Was I shocked to see there was NO true flat felling anywhere in the jeans. It was all just stitched, overlocked, and then top stitched.

I was actually really surprised.

lol... glad I'm not the only one who inspects and critiques rtw!
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Posted on: 7/19/10 2:47 AM ET
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I'm so glad to know Armani does that too

Haha me too.
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Posted on: 7/25/10 0:45 AM ET
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My $15 Old Navy jeans are done that way too... faux flat fell.
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