I could go on about how to make pants fit you, but Shelley J over at New Vintage Lady has it pretty much figured out.
http://newvintagelady.blogspot.com/2011/05/stout-alteration-tricks-pants-rise-to.html
As for my adventures in pants,
Textile Studio 1001 basic pants don't fit me out of the box. I have a bit more junk in my trunk than they assume, so I needed to add more fabric down there. So, added a waistband in the back, giving me almost three inches more depth to the back seam.
I altered the pattern, and then went at the pants. Luckily, the elastic casing width in the pattern gave me something to work with.
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| The back seam moved up. |
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| Waist seam trimmed for band addition (lurking at right) |
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| Sewn and ironed |
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| Matched to front edge and ironed |
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| Edge serged, top and bottom of elastic casing sewn, and finished with a rickrack loop at the back. |
And next time, these pants are ready to go out of the envelope...except for the part where I'm moving the side seams forward and changing the pocket and.....
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