Charles Dungarees

My son started asking for dungarees a few months ago, about the same time Compagnie M released the Charles dungarees. I bought the pattern, but then got distracted by other sewing projects. Last week my son asked for dungarees and this time I immediately acted on it.

At first he only wanted to pose in the shirt he was already wearing, the three little pig ones, but during the shoot I convinced him to switch to a bit less crowded shirt which combines better with the dungarees. The best combination would be a uni color shirt, but  none of those were clean unfortunately.

The fabric I used is the same type as my own trousers, the Kaufman Shetland flannel which I bought at fabric.com, just a different color. My son is very skinny so I made him a size two width and size five length. The size two turned out perfect, the size five a bit to long. The extra length is not a big issue the breast piece has a perfect height, only the legs and shoulder straps were a bit long, but that was easily overcome.

Due to my son's a-normal proportions the side fake pockets stayed open too much, which you can see on the next two pictures. The pockets are a bit too high, for the next dungarees I will have to adjust this, now his underwear is showing. I first thought about putting another button but I decided to sew the lower part closed. I was afraid the extra kam snap would create friction and my son can easily go in and out of the trousers even with the button of the pocket closed. 

When my son first saw the dungarees he was on one hand exited but on the other hand a bit disappointed because the breast piece did not have a small pocket. That was easily fixed. I changed the details of pattern a bit to make it less girly by replacing the rounded pieces with corners. This turned out great at upper part of the breast flap, the pockets still seem a bit round though.

Before I closed the lower part of the fake pocket my son loved to put his hand there, he loves pockets. After I closed the holes he quickly found another way to still put his hands in.

The contrasting fabric with the whales is from Lillestoff. I bought it to make this dress. I still had a small part left and the colors matched very well with the flannel. The fabric has a bit yellow in it and I decided to take the same color of kam snaps. I love how the back turned out with that contrasting band of jersey. All jersey pieces were lined with flannel.

In my quest to limit scraps I made another baby onesie from the piece that was left. My model was already sleeping when I made the pictures.

I love to hear what you think of them. Feel free to leave a comment in the language you prefer (although Google translate might have to assist me if you choose something different than English, German, Dutch or Hungarian).