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totchipandaRoommate left this morning for her hometown to spend a couple weeks with her mom, who has been home from the hospital for a week now. I dropped her off, and our other roomie will pick her up, but that did mean I had to get up at the unholy hour of 3:45 am. I took the morning off work so I could go back home and take a nap.
I wore the Pietra pants I made a couple weeks ago as a test to see how they feel. They really are just too big lol. The stayed up where they were supposed to, but as soon as I put anything in my pockets they dragged down. I walked from my home to the pharmacy and then the bus, a total of about one mile, and I have the same issue with them that I do with skirts, in that not enough of my skin is covered and I start to chafe. Not at the inner thigh at least, but kind of underneath my butt cheek. Not comfortable at all.
Since roomie is away, I have like... so much time. We haven't been apart for so long in 2.5 years, and the other roomie works late and im going to bed nearly as soon as he's done. We're going to get very acquainted in this time lol. So i decided to go try out the Thurlow trousers again.
Version 1 (August 2020)
Vague recollections of the changes I made, I think I mostly just added 2" of height to each piece. And like, yikes. It was MASSIVE in the waist and I had to pull it in to a size 12. It just didn't fit and I didn't know enough about fitting pants to have any real idea wtf I was doing.
July 2021: compared the pattern to Pietra and found it was far too short in the crotch seam and at the side seams for me. Did nothing with this information.
Version 2 (July 2022)
I made the size 16 and added only to the crotch seam, using the recent Pietra pant pattern. In total, I added perhaps 2". After stitching, I decided to take in another 1/2" on the back darts. Otherwise, I did not make any changes.
Honestly the fit isn't terrible. It still needs work, I have weird drag lines around my belly, but side seam is exactly where it needs to be. I want to raise the back perhaps 1", I can feel it sitting in my lower back at an angle to the front, like all of my modern pants seem to do. I also had drag lines around my butt and I just need to check the fitting guide from Closet Core to determine what that means.
I also pinned and then stitched up one of the folded hems for the shorts (i always fit shorts first bc most of my fit issues are in the hip/butt/belly area) and they are SO cute like that. I'll make some in a fun colour for summer so that I might actually wear them.
I wore the Pietra pants I made a couple weeks ago as a test to see how they feel. They really are just too big lol. The stayed up where they were supposed to, but as soon as I put anything in my pockets they dragged down. I walked from my home to the pharmacy and then the bus, a total of about one mile, and I have the same issue with them that I do with skirts, in that not enough of my skin is covered and I start to chafe. Not at the inner thigh at least, but kind of underneath my butt cheek. Not comfortable at all.
Since roomie is away, I have like... so much time. We haven't been apart for so long in 2.5 years, and the other roomie works late and im going to bed nearly as soon as he's done. We're going to get very acquainted in this time lol. So i decided to go try out the Thurlow trousers again.
Version 1 (August 2020)
Vague recollections of the changes I made, I think I mostly just added 2" of height to each piece. And like, yikes. It was MASSIVE in the waist and I had to pull it in to a size 12. It just didn't fit and I didn't know enough about fitting pants to have any real idea wtf I was doing.
July 2021: compared the pattern to Pietra and found it was far too short in the crotch seam and at the side seams for me. Did nothing with this information.
Version 2 (July 2022)
I made the size 16 and added only to the crotch seam, using the recent Pietra pant pattern. In total, I added perhaps 2". After stitching, I decided to take in another 1/2" on the back darts. Otherwise, I did not make any changes.
Honestly the fit isn't terrible. It still needs work, I have weird drag lines around my belly, but side seam is exactly where it needs to be. I want to raise the back perhaps 1", I can feel it sitting in my lower back at an angle to the front, like all of my modern pants seem to do. I also had drag lines around my butt and I just need to check the fitting guide from Closet Core to determine what that means.
I also pinned and then stitched up one of the folded hems for the shorts (i always fit shorts first bc most of my fit issues are in the hip/butt/belly area) and they are SO cute like that. I'll make some in a fun colour for summer so that I might actually wear them.
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