My girls needed shorts so they picked out some cute striped seersucker fabric at JoAnn's the other day. I debated about whether to make my own pattern or not but then decided to whipped up the shorts in Simplicity pattern 2711. Without thinking much I just followed the directions and sewed them together. Then I tried them on my daughter and noticed they looked weird. The stripes were all funky and it was a bit tight in the upper thighs and bell shaped in the lower thigh. The rise fit funny. I was about to toss the pattern in the garbage when I looked at the instructions. Sure enough, they instructed me to sew the rise up as the leg holes. It doesn't work so well that way. Pattern Review only has one review of someone sewing these shorts and they mentioned the pants were cut odd and the waist didn't fit well. I think I've solved the issue...
See what I mean? Awful. Thankfully I had bought enough fabric to still make two pairs of shorts sewn up the correct way. (The older girls both wanted the same shorts...)
Much better.
Now they fit well.
The only modification I made to these shorts was to lengthen them just an inch. With hot slides and swings, long shorts are a necessity.
Have you encountered patterns that tell you to sew them up incorrectly?
