I think these are my 4th or 5th pair of Persephone Pants by Anna Allen clothing. I’ve lost count – which is a good sign! You can see previous versions here and here.

And they are probably my favourite pair of pants I have ever worn!

Woo-hoo, I have finally achieved my personal pants perfection.

Now, it’s no secret that I love the silhouette of the Persephone Pants, but there was still something that seemed to make them a little unflattering on my body. After my last pair, I resolved that I would try to lower the crotch on my next pair.

That was my intention here, but I was somehow feeling a bit lazy and didn’t actually want to google precisely the best way to do this. So I did a cheat version and added in an extra 2cm length to the rise.

Well, this actually worked!

They still sit overall just lower enough, compared to previous pairs, to address the dreaded appearance of a munching crotch that I’ve seen in so many pairs of Perspehone Pants!

If you want construction details, go and check out my previous posts, I’m not going to bore you here with a repetition. The size of these is a weird custom “I-don’t-know” size and, like all my other pairs of Persephone Pants, I have substituted in a Ginger Jeans waistband and a zipper fly. If any of those topics interest you, my previous posts linked above cover it all in detail.

Where’s your pockets at?

I have always found the pockets on the Perspephone pants to be a bit of a dilemma. (For any newbies to the Perspephone Pants, there is no side seam, so the pattern included a hidden interior pocket attached to the waistband).

I have tried the front pocket as designed and I found it bulky and unflattering on me. Until now, I have been going for jeans-style back pockets for my Persephone Pants but I’ve found that to be a less than ideal solution.

First, it’s tough to get back pocket placement perfect on such high-waisted pants. Second, I find back pockets less practical. More vulnerable to theft, as well as to phones falling out and smashing on hard floors when you pull your pants down to pee.

Yeah, ask me how I know that!

So I feel like this single front patch pocket is a great solution and I’m loving it. It’s pretty darn cute too!!!

I’m also loving the 70s vibe it gives in this fabric!

Corduroy from The Pretty Mercerie

This fabric is a non-stretch corduroy that I bought from The Pretty Mercerie last winter and it doesn’t seem to be available anymore.

I’m really happy with the quality of it and it has come together into this vision of wintery cord pants just perfectly. The only thing that I discovered is that using my sewing machine’s automatic buttonhole on a thicker corduroy is like trying to punch holes in a snowball.

My automatic button hole function kept getting stuck on the ridges in the corduroy and changing directions all over the place.

It took me about an hour to sew one single ugly-as-all-hell buttonhole.

Which is actually about five crappy weird-direction buttonholes sewn one on top of the other. Oh well, the button covers it.

Mostly!

I will never sew anything requiring more than one buttonhole in thick corduroy – an important less has been learned!

Ummm, so I guess the joy of sewing a pattern for the 4th or 5th time is that even someone as long-winded as myself doesn’t have all that much more to say about this one.

Not sure if that’s going to be a relief or a disappointment to you!

So short and sweet (and striped) it is today – I’ll do my best to be back to my overly verbose self next week!!!!

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