Looking at this, I was too excited by the prospect of such an awesome fit and possibly making another pair of standard-crushing plaid pants to add to the collection. Click, add to cart, ship, receive...disappoint. Those dreaded words at the bottom, I did not notice before: "Sized for STRETCH KNITS only." NoooOOOooo. WHY? Oh, AND there's an ELASTIC WAIST? Ew. Okay, don't panic. This can work. Suggested fabrics include stretch wool/double-knit wool. Cool. Got it.
Hey, lady at Hancock, do you have knit wool? No? Oh. Off to JoAnn's. Hey, lady at JoAnn's, do you have any knit wool? No? It doesn't exist? What?! WHAT???!!!
So, apparently, many of the fabrics that these vintage patterns suggest don't really exist anymore unless you go to very highly specialized places that most certainly do not exist in any reasonable radius of my town. Sigh. No knit plaids. Nothing. I had to settle for the least sweatpants-like fabric I could find (which was a stretch...no pun intended) and I picked solid brown. It wasn't a difficult pattern. The elastic waistband isn't too vomit-inducing. But, like a dummy, I still lengthened them too much, had to do more hemming than I should, and threw off the proportion of the pants. I'm not too happy with them:
By the way, taking blog pics of garments is REALLY hard not to get a weird, unflatteringly gross angle.
I don't know. There's just something about them. They just don't lay right, I guess. And they still kind of feel like pajamas. Sigh. We'll see what I end up doing with them.
Garment Features:
Elastic Waistband
Hip-Hugger Waistline
Wide Leg Bell
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