wool dress shorts?

[gabysmom617]

Your guys have given me an idea...i've still been trying to figure out a way for my baby to wear his cloth diapers to our religious meetings 3 times a week.

I took a look at one of his pairs of dress pants. (Cute little things.) And I thought: Would it be such a terrible stretch to imagine these in wool? I have an adult pair of wool pants (96% wool) that look EXACTLY like his little pair of dress pants, his dress pants look like a miniature non-wool version of those pants. The adult wool pants are not scratchy AT ALL.

So I thought, what if I made him a dress pair of wool pants? Then it hit me...what about a dress pair of wool shorts?? I wonder if that would work.

I've got lot's of thrift store skirts and pants (and everything else wool i could put my hands on in there!) and I could definitely imagine making little pleated and/or creased little dress shorts out of them. Then I would only have to get a little button up shirt or collar shirt to match, and it would look very pressed and neat. Add a pair of dress socks and dress sandals, and we would be good to go.

I just made a few diapers out of the wee wika pattern.....LOVE THEM. they are so trim, and they fit him SO WELL, and they don't leak! Absolutely love them. I could make some to go under his theoretical "wool dress shorts".

HOw would this be?

Is there something that might not work with this scenario?

[Momofangels]

I don't see why it wouldn't work as long as they are lanolized good. I made some dressy looking shorts for my daughter. I have 3 pair that look identicle so it makes it easy to rotate durring the day and not mess up her outfit. Of course mine are from sweaters, but I know mammas make wraps from skirts and pants so I don't see why it wouldn't work. Good luck.

[discojoy]

Yeah, I think it would work. I actually did something similar a couple weeks ago. I made dress pants out of a black merino wool sweater. It was a really smooth knit so it looked more formal than a regular chunky sweater. It was pretty thin, so I doubled it up on the top half, or basically made a little pair of shorts that were sewn in as a lining under the pants. They work well, but they ended up looking more like stretch pants instead of "church" pants. But I want to try making some out of non-stretchy wool to see if I can make it look more dressy. I think it will work fine as long as the wool is thick enough. Also, you might want to make 2 just so if you have to change him, you will have another pair to put him in while you are still at church.
Let us know how it works!

[Kari_mom]

It was pretty thin, so I doubled it up on the top half, or basically made a little pair of shorts that were sewn in as a lining under the pants.

What I was going to say. Only I would make the inside layer more like a soaker so that you don't have the front and back seams lining up in the wet zone. Something like these knickers as the underlayer.

I would also use a really absorbant diaper underneath. Church is not the time to show how cloth diapers leak!

BTW, you wouldn't be able to tuck in a cotton shirt, it will get wet from the diaper.

[gabysmom617]

Now, you guys have got me all excited! I was trying to think if I could make a little wool soaker layer underneath, and that's perfect! I already have that pattern printed out and everything.

I'm getting a digital camera this weekend, and I will show you guys what I come up with.