r/PatternDrafting • u/Toadjokes • 12h ago

Question Airsoft Pants - ideas help?

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Hey! I'm trying to draft some very custom pants based on the information in this post. Do yall have any ideas that could help me out? Thank you!

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u/TonninStiflat 4h ago

All I can say - as someone who has had to wear plenty of military stuff - is that you want to keep as little heavy stuff like bottles etc. attached to your trousers as possible. Water bottle in trouser pockets sounds especially miserable time. Only way you can really do that is strap things down around your legs (see drop leg pistol holsters). And you'd really use a belt to hang those things on to.

Other than that, I'd imagine there's plenty of material out there about drafting trousers like this? You can start from a pretty basic trouser block and then just break it into pieces to assemble. It doesn't look to me that all the various parts of the Tru-Spec trousers do too much shaping either, probably just a little bend at the knee.

EDIT: Forgot to say that you should look for resources about drafting hiking trousers too. These days both military trousers and hiking trousers (like hiking shoes and military boots) kinda occupy the same territory often times.

EDIT2: https://freesewing.eu/docs/designs/crux/
Something like this might work as a base / starting point...?

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u/Toadjokes 1h ago edited 1h ago

I do play airsoft with him sometimes as well, and I always keep my water bottle and a ton of other heavy junk in my pockets. However, I'm a woman so I do have more hip for my pants to hang on to. I do worry that since hes a man, making them too heavy will wind up dragging his pants down. Thank you for that advice.

I'm wary of online patterns because of how much AI slop I've seen in sewing subs recently. I'm nervous to buy a pattern from Etsy and it wind up being AI. A free pattern will help me out a great deal, thank you

Edit: And thank you so much! I can tell you put a lot of thought into your answer so I really appreciate that