Loincloth Nudists
For anyone who enjoys loincloths or similiar minimal garb for those occasions when nudity isn't possible. Or for anyone who first got interested in nude living from watching the old TARZAN movies as a kid like I did!
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Making a Loincloth
Return to DiscussionsOne way of making a loincloth is to start with an old pair of shorts. first open the crotch. Then open the sides to the waistband.
If you start with shorts with a fly after you open the crotch, you can rotate the shorts so the fly is on the side. Then remove the fly and a similar amount of material on the other side.
Either way, you can then leave the remaining panels as they are or narrow and/or shorten them depending on where you are going to wear then and how daring you are. There may even be situations where you can remove the back panel completely and only have coverage in front!
In order to avoid sewing a hem, would be to use the hem after you've cut your desired front and rear panels and then thread a shoe string or a thing piece of the additional fabric to create a "tie band" to secure the loincloth. If you attach a large safety pin to the end it makes for easier threading .
If you use pinking sheers you get a jagged edge on the fabric, but that should stop any potential fraying - although most cotton blend tshirts would tend to roll a little and not fray.
I have also used the sleeves from a tshirt that I have made into a muscle shirt. I snip the seam up the sleeve to open it as my panel. It may not give as much coverage, but it does work.
I cut rectangular panels out of an old t-shirt, including the hemmed bottom edge, which became the bottom edge of the finished garment. I then made a narrow hem across the top of each panel and then folder it over and sewed it again so I could run a draw string through it -- I used a bootlace.The back panel is wider than the front panel. I tie the bootlace to one side.Clearly, I don't have anything on under it. But nothing "important" can be seen.
So then from the side, nothing can be seen except skin and a bootlace?
I cut rectangular panels out of an old t-shirt, including the hemmed bottom edge, which became the bottom edge of the finished garment. I then made a narrow hem across the top of each panel and then folder it over and sewed it again so I could run a draw string through it -- I used a bootlace.The back panel is wider than the front panel. I tie the bootlace to one side.Clearly, I don't have anything on under it. But nothing "important" can be seen.
I saw someone at Gunnison last summer. We were parked in adjacent spaces in opposite directions so the driver's doors were next to each other. When he got out of the car first I could see everything "important". When we were both standing I couldn't. I asked him if he made it or bought it and he said that he made it the way you described, except that he used the existing bottom hem as the top and ran the elastic through it and left the new bottom and sides unhemmed.
Why is the back wider than the front?
In order to avoid sewing a hem, would be to use the hem after you've cut your desired front and rear panels and then thread a shoe string or a thing piece of the additional fabric to create a "tie band" to secure the loincloth. If you attach a large safety pin to the end it makes for easier threading .If you use pinking sheers you get a jagged edge on the fabric, but that should stop any potential fraying - although most cotton blend tshirts would tend to roll a little and not fray.I have also used the sleeves from a tshirt that I have made into a muscle shirt. I snip the seam up the sleeve to open it as my panel. It may not give as much coverage, but it does work.
T shirt sleeves are short.
Don't things hang out at the bottom?
I suspect the average t-shirt sleeve might just be okay, subject to individual variations of shirts and wearers' anatomies! Love the creativity.
Whether such a garment is made from the sleeves or the bottom segment of the t-shirt, I imagine leaving the edges to curl naturally would become a factor.
I'm tempted to try it - cannot be worse than one I mail-ordered from China that was too stretched-out and consequently rode up. :-D
I took an old t shirt last night and cut off the sleeves and the bottom.
I ran shoelaces through the hems on the sleeves and made a loincloth.
The front is just covered. but probably wouldn't be for someone who is well endowed.
Back won't cover the top and bottom of the crack at the same time.
Haven't done anything with the bottom yet as it was getting late.
The length won't be a problem,
Circumference is almost 4', so there is probably enough material for 2 loincloths!