“Body Positivity” Highs and Lows with the Persephone Pants and Shorts

I tried my hand at, arguably, one the most popular indie patterns of the moment: the Persephone Pant and Short Pattern by Anna Allen.

As I’m sure you know, positive reviews of this pattern are a plenty. It is a trendy sailor pant wide leg cut, with a high-high waist and without a side seam. The pattern (one with a decently inclusive size range) seems universally flattering on all sorts of body types–except, as I currently feel, mine.

Now, I bring this up not as a way to ask to be reassured, but to acknowledge one of the harder sides of making ones own clothes. I seek to achieve a good fit with the garments I make. Even if this doesn’t always work, my homemade clothes fit in a way my old RTW garments never did. I’m aware of this as I write this post. However, the process of…