A Unique Pair of Pants

I whipped up a toile of the re-issued Unique pants pattern. At the risk of being in fitting denial (a phrase coined by internet friend and sister sewist Lori), they look pretty darn good. Unique re-drafted this pattern to reflect my asymmetrical hips and the result is nice. There still is some bagginess in the back of the thighs; however, at first blush it doesn't seem too bad--perhaps because I used a less drapey fabric for this toile.

A look through the pattern catalogs brought these 2 possiblities for my size 14 princess-seamed shirt experiment:

4922 and 4780

Comments

Huda Ba'haroon said…

I love these type of blouses. :)

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