Aghhh.
I was wondering if anyone else has tried
these?
I’ve read lots of positive reviews, the only criticism seemed to be they run big and some people find the crotch too low.
After struggling with the shorts version of these for 2 days I’ve come to the conclusion I’m the wrong shape for this pattern draft!
The front is made up of panels that you can tweek to fit. I used a Closet Core size 8 as the starting point for my toile.
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Not sure whether it camouflages or emphasises my rolls of chubby tummy (small hips, big tum!) but if this plus the slightly low crotch were the only niggles I wouldn’t mind.
It’s the back that I can’t get to work for my shape. It’s your basic ‘ 2 legs’ with a waistband for the elastic. They are designed to be very high waisted. The back pattern pieces just go straight up so the extremely generous amount of fabric over your hips is the same width as that for the smallest part of my torso! That’s a lot of gathered fabric! Unfortunately I wasn’t blessed with a bootylicious butt to pad out all of the excess ‘sticky out’ folds and the shorts looked terrible on me!
I unpicked the side seams and traced the smallest size I could onto the back pieces and resewed them to get rid of the swamping amounts of ease. As you can see they still look awful and extremely unflattering AND of course now the side seams are slightly off balance.
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So what next? I could redraw the back pattern pieces at the sides and centre seam so the fabric tapers above my hips? Or I could add darts to the back and a side zip?…. But then again if I’m going to start adding darts and zips then I think I may prefer to use a pattern that has been drafted to give a closer fit before I start attempting to tweek It?
The other alternative would be to use a pattern for elasticated waist trousers that I know fit and that sit on or just below my natural waist and redraft its front pieces to have similar design lines as the Pietra Pants????
What would you lovely people do?