GENTLEMENS' BREECHES AND PANTALOONS.
Diagrams 6.
Measures: 39, 15, 17, 20, 27, 60, 36, 14, 13, 14, 10.
Style now fashionable close fitting at leg seam, very full at seat and thigh.
Finished at fronts either with fly or split fall.
0 to 1, side length plus 1 inch.
1 to 12, leg length plus 1 inch.
12 to 6, one-sixth seat.
12 to 9, one-fourth.
12 to 12¼, one-third seat plus ¼ inch.
Lower fronts at B 1½ inches.
A to 2, one-fourth waist plus ½.
Square down from 6 to 12, 12 inches.
12 to 1½, 1½ inches.
Draw centre line from 6 to 28.
6 to 16, 18; 21 and 28 leg length to knee; small calf and bottom; adding 1 inch in each case.
16 to 3½, 18 to 3, 21 to 3½, and 28 to 2½, one-fourth size of leg at those parts.
Measure towards side from centre line, from 1 to 2 inches, as buttons are now worn very forward at knee (see A).
Well round sideseams, making 12 to 1½ about 1½ inches.
This will serve as a guide for the round of sideseam.
UNDERSIDES.
9 to 7, one-sixth seat plus 1. Or by Registered Square, dropping angle line at B, 1 inch.
9 to 13½, one-eighth seat.
3½ to 4½, 3 to 4, and 3½ to 4½, 1 inch.
Draft leg seam as shown.
Continue down to K in harmony with the upper part.
Make leg 1 inch shorter than topsides. Make body 1 inch longer than topsides.
Allow 2½ over waist and reduce by fish.
Allow 3½ or more over seat.
Make up size of knee, calf, etc., to ensure at F, G, H, allowing 1 inch for seams; reduce size of bottom by a V mark at J, I.
Clear loose material from under knee by a fish from 4½ to F
Complete as shown.
B shows strapping shaped ready to put on.
