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My first pair of pants...to make, I mean.

On to the earlier stuff...

I’d been on stage in skimpy stuff, but I wanted more coverage for shows, so I started looking for cool pants. I found this material cheap and thought I’d try making something fun. Finding out that the material was UV reflective was a very nice surprise.

Not knowing much about clothing construction, I sewed loose-fitting, hoop-legged pajama bottoms. Not particularly sexy. So I kept taking them in until I had the fit I wanted. On a whim I left the bottoms flared, and it seemed to work in a funky sort of way.

In Denver a friend and I did a show at a theatre with amazing, industrial-strength black lights. Our flags looked great but we were invisible. I put on these pants, and we covered ourselves with black light body paint. The girls in the next dressing room enjoyed that part, and wanted to help.

I had *almost* enough material to make another pair for my partner. The pants came out about two inches too short...ouch. We solved the problem with blue fringe, and it actually looked good. No, really!