This has been an interesting project for me. I hardly give up on a sewing project; there has been a few though when I truly knew the outcome would not be wearable. I have been close to giving up on this pant fitting journey I am on. I realized yesterday after putting on and taking off and repeating this action at least five times that I am actually learning more about fitting pants and decided to not talk myself out of continuing.
I am happy and actually amazed at the fit of the back of the pants with some tweaks for fullness in the back below my bottom/butt/bum. This pattern has a side back and back pieces. This has allowed for a nicer fit in that area and without this, I would be folding out quite a bit of fullness. There is still fullness that I want to remove.
It was hard taking photos of the back as my DH was not readily available to help. I lightened the photo so you could see what I am working with at this time.
The front is another fitting
issue nightmare! Actually, this is a fitting issue I have with some petite pants purchased from other sources than Talbots. I had a tailor I went to for them to fix the issue; I wish I had paid more attention to what they did. I really am more of a box shape and I have way too much curve through the hip area. I basted a deeper side seam using a 1.5-inch side seam for the front piece and 1 inch for the back side seam. That helped but still have more to remove. I also took in the inseam by an additional 1/2 inch.
I can see the fullness at the hip and I need to remove some curviness there.
There is a diagonal pull that I am pointing to on this side.
And too much fullness near center front. It looks like a bubble and per Pants for Real People, taking deeper inseam should help. I had to raise the front waistline, or that is what I thought I should do because of how low the front crotch seemed to be. This made the front look a little better but have the issues above still.
I won't have as much to time to work on this today and regret that. I am wanting this project to be over and the next project will probably be a quick TNT project just for immediate gratification.
Thoughts and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks for stopping by.