I love the look when my daughters where a long tunic / dress top with Jeggins! So cute! But, they're 3 & 4...so, it IS cute. But, I'm sorry, a 30+ woman just can't usually pull this off. Sure, I've seen it done...but, it's just not me. I tried real hard to make Jeggings work, but my husband just said "What's with the moo moo and sweat pants, did 1994 throw up?" Not to mention, that I'm just not the moo moo type.
BUT I got a pair of jeggings free from Target, they were on clearance for $4.98 and I had a $5.00 off any denim coupon...so....Oh, I just can't pass up a deal. After wearing my circus-tent-with-poles look for about an hour, I realized I needed to figure out a way to turn these into something more wearable. Ta Da!
Here's what I did to get one scarf/vest and one skirt from 1 free pair of pants!
First, lay out your pants facing you and really smooth them out. Then cut straight across, just above the crotch. My first cut wasn't very straight, but there's a chance to fix it later...
Next, take away the longer ends, and seperate the inside seams. I cut very close to the seam so that I was keeping as much fabric as possible. Then cut the cute decorative end off the bottoms of each leg. You should now have two Long and tapered rectangles.
Then, with right sides together, line up seams and sew the smaller (bottom) ends together. Now you have a funny looking wide at the ends smallerish in the middle scarf. Wrap this around you and make sure the ends are even. Then (and this sounds more difficult than it is) pull the sides behind you so that they touch in back, put a hair clip, or clothes pin, or something to mark where the ends come together.
Pretty much, you are going to end up sewing a straight line through the curve that was left from the crotch area...