FO: 1940s Wide Leg Trousers (EvaDress/Simplicity 3322

This year seems to be the Year of the Pants, which can’t be a bad thing. I feel like I’m taking baby steps towards tackling my dream project – perfect vintage jeans – and these wide leg trousers are just one step down that road.   The pattern is EvaDress 3322, which is a reproduction of Simplicity 3322 circa 1940, and I used navy gaberdine fabric from Spotlight.                               Overall, I’m really happy with how these came out BUT be warned, I made four muslins before I got the fit right. I’m about a 35 inch waist and 48 inch hips, and the pattern had so much ease in the trousers that I used a size 40 (to fit 34 waist and 43 hip). I was also expecting them to be rather long in the crotch but they were actually quite short and needed adjusting. MODS: used a back-zipper instead of side buttons lengthened the total crotch depth by 3/4 inch front and back added extra seam allowance to back seam for zip took in at the waist by half an inch removed excess width on the […]

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