Making Victorian Cycling Breeches: A Menace to Polite Society

Join me as I create a pair of Victorian cycling breeches, designed to challenge the norms of polite society! From pattern drafting to the final buttonholes, this project takes us through the scandalous history of cycling fashion in the 1880s. Along the way, we'll also explore why cycling was seen as controversial, all while tackling the breeches with some sewing machine ASMR and a few bike stunts! Don't miss the blooper reel at the end!

0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Pattern Info & Fabric Cutting
2:38 - Pockets For Pigs
3:20 - Stitching Begins
3:41 - Why Was Cycling Scandalous?
4:13 - Making a Button Fly
6:31 - Buttonholes
7:46 - Sewing Machine ASMR
9:20 - Inseams, Pockets, & Outseams
11:08 - Everything is literally on fire! + Ad
12:39 - Back to our regularly scheduled, fire-free sewing
16:50 - Waistband
19:40 - Finishing up/Buttons
20:50 - Penny Farthing Lessons
21:56 - Scandalously doing my own stunts
23:36 - Credits
24:19 - have some high bike bloopers, as a treat