trousers sides folded

Look slimmer in trousers every day.   Have you ever noticed how some days you seem to look bigger in the trouser leg than other days?  It's not your legs that are changing shape, but the trousers you are wearing and how they are pressed or folded.  If the trousers have been folded over a hanger with the outside seams to the outside, then you the fabric is forced out at the outside leg and out on the inside leg.  So your legs look bigger.  Some people iron them this way with a fold on the outside and inside legs, because they do not want cress in the middle.

This can also be true when a person buys a pair of trousers and comes to have them altered.  The trousers are folded flat with outside and inside seams at the folds, and when they put them on, they say something like "Do you think they are too wide in the leg?"

After explaining the reason they look this way, I get them to take the trousers off, and either iron a cress down the centre front, or if they don't want a cress I at least iron the outside and inside seams without a fold in them.  The bagginess has gone.

Look slimmer in trousers

How can you look slimmer in trousers everyday?  Create a permanent cress down the front, and the best method is to iron the trousers so that the cress is in the exact middle of the inside and outside legs from the crotch down to the hem.  Fold the fronts so that wrong sides are together and you have the cress at the fold.  Now sew down the cress as close to the ironed cress as possible, all the way from the crotch to the hem.

This will hold the cress in place on a permanent basis, and will give you a more flattering look.

Happy altering

Judith Turner