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Originally Posted by EricH
I'm not talking department store custom here, I'm talking a pair made just the way you want them--style, size, color, the whole 9 yards (OK, yard and a half).
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A yard and a half will make a nice pair of pedal pushers. You’ll need at least two yards of denim for jeans, maybe three (reference standard patterns). Plus thread, zipper, rivets, cheap white fabric to make the front pockets, and a jeans snap or button for the fly. Your company logo on the snap? Oh, and a “designer label” for the back waistband.
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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
That's sort of what I was afraid of...assuming you're budgeting for engineer-style wages (e.g. $25/h) a significant portion of your overhead is going to go towards paying yourselves to cut and sew (I'd guess $5–$8 per piece for your labour).
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Inexperienced engineer attempting to sew jeans—ten hours to make the first pair, that’s less than $1 per hour. At engineering wages, that’s $250 just for labor; with markup, that would be a $500 pair of jeans!
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
There's only one group that I know of, personally, that is less fashion conscious than some of the good people that are being polled here and they are quilters.
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Jane, are you trying to tell us that satin and velvet patchwork quilted vests with birdhouse appliqués and rickrack are not in style?