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Technical Help / Palmer Pletsch and trousers.
« on: July 16, 2023, 13:52:49 PM »
I have spent an enormous amount of mental energy trying to figure out the diagonal wrinkles I get on the backs of my trousers going from hip to inside thigh/knee. I tried the tissue fitting technique of putting a pleat in the pattern up the back and while it works on the back of my leg, it makes the hip and the waist band far too small. Just for completeness, does anybody know what I’m doing wrong?
(Incidentally, I have found that by unpicking the inside seam to the knee of each leg and part of the rise, I can pull part of the back leg through enough to remove the wrinkles. Basically, I am shortening the rear crotch length if that makes sense. (A tip from Pamela Howard in Threads magazine). It doesn’t mess up the hip or the waist either.)
(Incidentally, I have found that by unpicking the inside seam to the knee of each leg and part of the rise, I can pull part of the back leg through enough to remove the wrinkles. Basically, I am shortening the rear crotch length if that makes sense. (A tip from Pamela Howard in Threads magazine). It doesn’t mess up the hip or the waist either.)