They are shiny, they look great and high fashion at the moment, latex leggings!

Learn how to make our own latex leggings in this tutorial. Just follow eleven easy steps. Comments and questions are appreciated!

Lets get started!

1. Make the pattern

Make a sketch of your new project. It will help you to keep an overview of which measurements you need and how the pattern should look like in the end.

2. Take measurements

We need the waist, hip and leg for the latex leggings. Check out here how to take the measurements and which ones you need from the leg.

3. Transfer pattern to paper

See here what the latex-leggings pattern should look like. It doesn’t matter what kind of paper you use, but I usually buy a big paper roll in a home improvement store. The thickness of the paper is up to you, what matters is that you can work with it! To get the curves right, I use French curve rulers.

4. Cut out the pattern

Don’t be chocked if you think it looks big!

5. Transfer pattern to latex sheeting

Place your pattern on the latex sheeting and draw around it. The leggings consist of 4 parts, a front and a back side for each leg! Take the front side, put it on the latex, draw around it, then flip the pattern once over and draw around it. Now you got the two front sides on the latex sheeting. Do the same with the backside. I used a silver paint marker.

6. Cut and clean latex

Cut the latex sheeting out and clean it from the paint marker by using the mineral spirit and a piece of cloth. If your latex sheeting got to much talcum powder on from the production process, then I recommend you to rinse it off with water or take a wet piece of cloth to wipe it off. (To make sure while you work with your latex sheeting that there wont be talcum powder on your fresh applied glue, because as soon as you touch the latex sheeting with the talcum powder on, you will have it on your fingers and easily transfer it to the glue on the seam while you work with it).

Tips to remember:

• Give the latex a few minutes to straighten itself out again, after you applied the glue.
• Do not stretch the latex, pull anywhere to make it work, but never stretch the parts you are just about to glue together. A little practice will help.
• Keep your workspace clean to avoid left over glue sticking to the latex leggings.
• Have some small weights around to help you hold the pattern parts separated and under control.

7. Glue the seams

Start out with the outer seams on the leggings! Take the front and backside of one leg. Watch out that you take the right parts, it is a mess to get the glue off again if you applied it once! So check carefully for the shiny and rough sides on the latex sheeting and put them together the right way.

Now use the mineral spirit to clean your seam from all particles remaining! Apply the glue on both seams, the front and the backside pattern.

To get that right, you apply the glue for the front side on the rough side of the latex sheeting and on the backside you apply the glue on the shiny side, so that you glue in the end the front side on top of the backside seam.

You should start gluing from the waist down to the ankle, so that you can cut over standing parts off after you are done gluing! If you got your seam together use your seam roller and apply pressure to the seam by rolling over it! Do the same with the outside of the other leg!

This is how your leggings should look like by now.

8. Glue the crotch together

Ok, this might be a little difficult for some of you, because of the curve. But I am sure with some patient you will manage it!

You will now glue the crotch of the front sides together! Again clean your seam and apply the glue on the crotch of both legs.

Here you will not start out on the waistline, start by the other end where the deepest curve is, so that in case you have to cut something of in the end, you will cut it of on the waistline.

Do the same with the crotch in the back.

9. Glue inner legs

Now you are almost there, just the inner sides of the legs are missing! Start out by placing your leggings so on your workspace that they are wide spread, which will make it easy to clean them and apply the glue afterwards without moving them around.
I apply the glue on one entire leg and approx. 10-15cm on the other leg. After the latex straighten itself out again, start by gluing the middle of the crutch together and then go down the leg where there is glue on all the way.

That the other leg, where I don’t have glue on all the way, is not sticking together, I will put a little weight or just my rotary cutter in between to avoid it.

After I glued on leg together I will do the rest of the other one. The reason why I apply those 10-15cm of glue on the second leg and then put something in between is that it is then easier for me to apply afterwards glue on the rest of the second leg. It gives me a nice point to start out with applying the rest of the glue.

10. Waistband

You will need a 4 cm (1.6″) wide band with the length of your leggings waistline.
The band should be thicker then latex sheeting you used for your leggings, so that it will be able to keep your leggings up when you wear them. I used 0.6 mm latex sheeting for the waistband.
Now when you glue the waistband on the leggings, you will start on the middle seam in the back of your
latex leggings and will also end there. You glue the waistband of the leggings on the outside of the leggings, not on the inside.

If you are uncertain if your leggings will be to high up the waist after you will have glued the waistband on, then just carefully try the leggings on before you glue the waistband on. Use some talcum powder to get easier in.

11. Reinforcements

You will glue reinforcements on those points where there will be the most stress, that would be on the seams in the crutch and the ankles.

Now you should be done!

If necessary clean the leggings, shine them and dress up!

If you have questions, suggestions etc. just leave a comment underneath the post and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Let me know how your project went or if you tried this tutorial and liked it, then please send me a photo of you wearing the latex leggings, so I can post them here. I’m looking forward to hear from you!

In this video, I’ll show you how to glue straight and curved seams.
In the video I already cleaned the seams with mineral spirit and applied the glue.

There are different techniques to apply the glue on the latex, none of them is right or wrong. That what matters is what works best for you. So see this as suggestions!

To apply the rubber cement

Remember to apply glue on both seams you would like to glue together and to have a equal thin layer of glue!

1. Paint brush
I prefer small, flat soft brushes. It makes it easy and fast to apply the glue on the latex sheeting and gives you a good control over that what you are doing. Remember to clean your brush properly after you finished your project.

2. Cotton buds
They are cheap, you have them always in the house and they give you as well a good control. Just throw them out after they a unusable anymore. Usually you will need a couple to finish one project. I also use them from time to time.

3. Old Credit cards etc.
I have also seen people using those to apply glue on the latex and had to try it myself. What to say, not the right method for me! Not handy at all, especially if it comes to curves, less control and it makes in my eyes a too big mess on the workspace.

To apply the white latex milk

First of all you have to apply this glue fast, equal and in a thin layer! Dont wipe to much around with your brush on the latex or it will cause little dried glue “left overs”.
You have to wait until the latex milk dryed on the latex. When the white latex milk turns transparent after you applied it, you know that its ready to be glued together. Just give it a few minutes.

1. Paint brush
You can of course also use a brush for this glue. It should be soft and clean. It might take 2-3 strokes over the to be glued seam to get a nice layer of glue on the latex sheeting. Dont put much glue on your brush or it might make a mess on your workspace

2. Sealing tape
This is like using a small piece of a sponge. You will need a long flexible piece of plastic, metal or wood etc. to place a piece of the sealing tape on.
Then you will “dip” it slightly in the glue (Not to much, a drop of glue on the sealing tape is totally fine! You can always add more!).
Then apply the glue on your seam. But be fast, otherwise your sealing tape starts to stick to the latex sheeting and it leaves little traces which you might see later after you are done gluing. You would be surprised how fast that can go!

If you have other techniques or ideas you would like to share, then please leave a comment!

Thanks to this little tutorial, you will be making latex clothing in no time!

Step 1: Clean the two surfaces using mineral spirit and a piece of cloth.

Step 2: Apply a thin layer of latex glue to both surfaces using a cotton bud.

Step 3: Let the glue dry for 5 minutes. Put the two surfaces together.

Step 4: Apply pressure to the seam using a seam roller.

That’s it!

We all know that making patterns is a pretty hard thing to do, if you never did it before! So it might be usefull to start out with some regular patterns you can buy in sewing or tailor shop, just to get an idea about it.

So you go out and buy a pattern size “M”, because this is what you usually wear! Afterwards the surprice, its not the best fit!? Then let me explain to you:

First of all, you will never be able to go out shopping for regular clothing and always fit size “M”, sometimes it will be a size bigger or smaler. The reason for that is that the pattern sizes between the different manufactures are not standardized (different reasons like the marketing aspect are causing that.. well all woman feel better in a smaller size, than having size “L” marked on the back!

If you are going out to buy a pattern, then take your body measurements along. You will need bust-waist-hip, and of course your hight. On the back side you will see a chart where you should have a look at, to estimate where your measurements fit in best. (You should take new measurements at least every half year…even if you wont believe, but your body contourse can change!)

So if you finally found the best pattern size for you, it is all just a matter of adjusting things a little! Like making the skirt, blouse, pants etc. a little longer or shorter in case you might be taler or smaler than the given hight on the pattern. Or even tighter, depending on that what you measured!

WATCH OUT: The seams on regular patterns are made for sewing! So not every seam is implementable the way its shown on the pattern and has to be adjusted as well. Start with simple things like a skirt.

Good luck!

Things you need will be a measure tape and a friend to help you. It is easier and more precisely if somebody else takes your measurements then your self, because you should stand straight and not move around!

Here you can see one of those many measurement charts you can find online:

The most important thing about a measurement chart is that you can read it and it got all measurements, also for your future reference.
(You should always make sure if you want something to be custom made from a latex manufacturer that you are accurate with the measurement drawings they provide to you.)

TIP 1. The to be measured person shouldn’t be wearing more than underwear while taking measurements, to get exact results.

TIP 2. Take a ribbon or something similar, which you can bind around the waist. This is one of the anchor points where you´ll have to refer to the most of the time. (Makes it easier for you to find that point again!)

TIP 3. While taking measurements the measure tape should not hang loose around, but don’t pull to hard, just because latex is stretchable it doesn’t mean that you should tighten the measure tape as much as possible.

Some examples for taking the measurements:

1. Waist
Put the measurement tape around the waist ribbon and take the measurement from there.

2. Chest/Breast
For men it is usually enough to take just the measurements over the widest point of the chest. For women you should take the over bust, bust and under bust to make it precisely.

3. Hips
Measurements for the hip should actually be taken at the point where your hip bones are (you will be able to feel them, two bones to the left and right), but in a lot of the cases you will see on measurement charts that they take the hip measurements a little further down. In that case they actually ask for the widest point. No problem! Just take the measure tape a little further down, so that you also get your bum in there.

4. Neck to waist
Take your head down to your chest and try to feel in the back of you neck that big bone sticking out, this is the point from where to measure.

5. Arms
Your arms should hang loose and relaxed while taking measurements.

6. Head
Head measurements are taken just above the ears.