kathleen crowley's costume coutuuuuure

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If you have the base dance-pants already, they're stoopid easy to make. If you don't have the pants yet, well, get a pattern and make 'em.
If you can't sew. Go buy them or learn to sew. (its' easy. Just like welding, but with needle and thread instead of wand and fluxcore.)

Find lace (or whatever trim you want to use) and buy yards and yards of it. You do the math according to how wide around the pant leg is, how much you want it ruffled (twice the pant leg will give you a slight ruffle, but 3x the width will be fuller!) and how many tiers. Or, just buy the whole trim roll and forget the math. Put on the pants. Ruffle the trim up by hand and have a friend pin it to your pants so it comes out even front to back and at the heights you want. Take off the pants. (don't have a friend? Measure up from the hem and pin the trim yourself. Remember to leave lots for ruffling!) Most of the ruffle will have fallen down between the pins. No fear. Sit down with thread and needle or sewing machine and re-ruffle it as you sew it in place.

There. Your old dance workhorses look like new fancy frilly thangs!