I still hear lots of ladies groan every time I suggest using a seam up the center of the pants leg. For some reason or other, they must think there is some stigma attached to using a seam up the center of the leg of the pants pattern.
But when you have quite a flat backside, or when you have a large high hip or abdomenal circumference (meaning a large waist and stomach area) going to a flat backside or pencil thin legs, this center leg seam is truly a life-saver. With this seam, you can deepen the stitching curve under your backside and you can use it to help taper the legs. Those of you who have seen this process and the results being pants that fit so well, are true converts.
But have you thought of using this same seaming concept up the front of your pants leg? In this photo, you'll see pants front - with one 'regular' leg and one 'seamed' leg.
Please keep in mind these are 'test' pants - hence all the other wrinkles - but you can likely see the remarkable difference between the leg with or without the center seam. It simply fits so much better.
Here's the completed side and back views.
Do you remember my NY trip blog? Well, while 'shopping' those famous 5th. Ave stores, another design I saw
LOTS of was pants with seams - down the back
and front of the pants leg. Designer's simply know you can get a superior fit when you incorporate these leg seams for shaping. Here's a photo of the front of a pair of pants (sorry I wasn't holding them totally upright), but you can still see the front leg seam. By the way, these exposed zippers are very popular too. (FYI - These pants were priced at $249.00). How simple are these for us talented seamstresses!
Now, to make this happen, I suggest watching this video. This concept of adding seams to the interior of both the front and back legs of your pants pattern is significant enough to have made a video on the process. Please take a few minutes to watch.
(Well, this is crazy, but I'm having great difficulty accessing this video from YouTube and putting it in this blog. So until I get that figured out, please just click on this link and it will take you directly to the video on the YouTube site. It's called
Just give this a try to see how simple and effective the pants princess seam can be to help refine your pants fit.
Kindly,
Glenda
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