Mexico: Fighting the recession with the world´s longest trousers

Residents of Almoloya del Río, a small village near Mexico City, made a 60 meter-long pair of trousers. They want to break the Guinness World Record to boost their local economy which has been badly affected by the global recession.

They used 1.8 thousand meters of fabric, and 10 thousand meters of thread to make the trousers.

[Carlos Ramirez, Chief Designer]: 
„Almoloya has always being a brave town with hard working people and the probe is that today were don’t give up before this crisis. What we want to prove is that people from this municipality like to work and want to work. We don’t want our countrymen to go out to United States following the American dream. We want them to stay working here, but only united we would be able to move forward, with projects like this one or others, we want to be supported.“

The trousers now hang in the village square from a large crane.

Almoloya Residents hope the giant trousers will break a Guinness World Record achieved two weeks ago by a Tunisian designer who made a pair of trousers 50 meters in length.

The designers certified the long trousers with a public notary and documented the production process to send a full report to Guinness.

[Silvia Romero, Tailor]:  
„We expect the trousers could open doors for us in order to get more work and sales. Also, it will help us continue elaborating our garments.“

Village residents financed the tailoring of the long trousers with 44 people taking part in the production process.

(NTDTV)