I made the brown twill barrel leg pants I was thinking about at the end of September, because what else am I doing with my time now that I don’t have a senior cat to take care of?
I used the Coe Trouser pattern from Daughter Judy and some Ventana Twill I’d had in my stash since before the pandemic.
I should have made a straight size 12 but graded to a 10 at the waist…and then had to let the seams out at the waist as much as I possibly could, so the onseam pockets are less integrated into the seam line than they’re meant to be.
But they weren’t hard to make and they fit, especially now that the twill has broken in. But how do I feel about them? Brown trousers, fitted at the waist but big in the hip, tapered at the ankle, hmmm where have I seen this before? OH WAIT:
I might just be too old for this style? I saw this the other day about Pant Fashion and it’s extremely accurate: 