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Posted on: 7/8/09 6:53 PM ET
help.I made the Jalie jeans and the seem to fit very nice except i have one wrinkle right under my butt so I can hardly tell if its coming from tightness in the leg area or the crotch.i have made the crotch shallower, is that the word and deeper and its still there. do I just need to get a flexible ruler thing to get my crotch curve or is there somthing else i can do?I do have a rather flatter butt and just noticed my RTW jeans have this problem too.go figure i never saw that before.:)now I really want to know how to fix this so I never have to have jeans like that again.Please help:(
Posted on: 7/8/09 7:57 PM ET
In reply to Elizabeth Zacharias
Without photos it's hard to give advice or an opinion, but jeans are suppose to have wrinkles. It is part of the tight fitting style. If they are wrinkle free they are called slacks.
The wrinkle you describe sounds like the "normal wrinkle/fold" I would expect to see in jeans. If you want to maintain the tight fit and get rid of the wrinkle you probably won't be able to sit.
I would need to see photos to be sure.
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The wrinkle you describe sounds like the "normal wrinkle/fold" I would expect to see in jeans. If you want to maintain the tight fit and get rid of the wrinkle you probably won't be able to sit.
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Belinda. Melbourne, Australia
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Posted on: 7/8/09 10:06 PM ET
Thats so funny. Thats just what my husband said.Is that why most of the Jalie jeans reviews have wrinkles all down the back thigh?Also how do I know if the crotch is the right curve for my body?
Posted on: 7/9/09 0:35 AM ET
In reply to Elizabeth Zacharias
Hi Elizabeth
I did a Pants fitting class with Pati Palmer from Palmer Pletsch and normally when you get any horizontal lines - it's because you need just a little more fabric in that spot. Don't know if you've sewn the inseams already - but if you have not - take the back inseam and move it to the "inside" pin it together and fit the pant again - I had the same problem and I could not believe that this little adjustment made such a big difference - I hope this help - and if you could, get the pants for real people book by pati palmer
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I did a Pants fitting class with Pati Palmer from Palmer Pletsch and normally when you get any horizontal lines - it's because you need just a little more fabric in that spot. Don't know if you've sewn the inseams already - but if you have not - take the back inseam and move it to the "inside" pin it together and fit the pant again - I had the same problem and I could not believe that this little adjustment made such a big difference - I hope this help - and if you could, get the pants for real people book by pati palmer
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Posted on: 7/9/09 10:34 AM ET
Ok I dont have a clue what you mean by moving the inseam inside.Inside where?Im trying to figure this out by lookin at my jeans but its not clicking.Would you please explain a little more?I am far away from town so I cant get ahold of that book anytime soon.
Posted on: 7/9/09 10:59 AM ET
In reply to Elizabeth Zacharias
Quote: Elizabeth Zacharias
I am far away from town so I cant get ahold of that book anytime soon.
I am far away from town so I cant get ahold of that book anytime soon.
Have you tried the local or provincial library?
Mail order?
Pants for Real People at Amazon.ca
Here's the DVD...
DVD at AZ Canada
(Actually this seems to be for trousers and pants, not jeans...)
And I think you can buy them here at PR now too!!
PalmerPletch books/DVDs at PR
In spite of all these links, I think you should go with Belinda's advice...
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Posted on: 7/12/09 9:17 AM ET
In reply to Elizabeth Zacharias
Hi Elizabeth
This may be bias stretch. One trick often used in design is to make the back's inseam a centimetre or 2 shorter at the crotch, steaming and stretching it to fit the now-longer front inseam.
I do that routinely on my trousers, and I find it removes that mysterious wrinkle.
You can see a (very brief) reference to this in Helen Armstrong's Patternmaking for Fashion Design, on page 564 (in my copy), under figure 2 of 'How to complete the Pant Pattern.' It was also mentioned years ago, I vaguely remember, in Threads, in an article about deconstructing a pair of couture trousers (Chanel?), but I forget which issue.
Hope this helps!
Pen
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This may be bias stretch. One trick often used in design is to make the back's inseam a centimetre or 2 shorter at the crotch, steaming and stretching it to fit the now-longer front inseam.
I do that routinely on my trousers, and I find it removes that mysterious wrinkle.
You can see a (very brief) reference to this in Helen Armstrong's Patternmaking for Fashion Design, on page 564 (in my copy), under figure 2 of 'How to complete the Pant Pattern.' It was also mentioned years ago, I vaguely remember, in Threads, in an article about deconstructing a pair of couture trousers (Chanel?), but I forget which issue.
Hope this helps!
Pen
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Pen in Gloucestershire, UK
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