https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:16:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-2069142 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:59:25 +0000 Wendy 2069142@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hello! I realize this is an old post, but when I try to download the pictures it says "pictures are unreachable." Is there any way to make them "reachable?"<br />Thanks!<br />Wendy </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57792 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:51:03 +0000 Angie 57792@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh Tam and San, we could start a thread in those types of words. My nerves are jolted every time people say that their child “bonked” their head” , or that they had “bangs” cut. But the use of the word “fanny” really cracks me up. Never a dull moment! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57689 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:05 +0000 Anonymous 57689@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am having many laughs over the use of that word. We have another "f" word and if it was used openly I would about die too. Funny!!! What we learn here!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57664 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:52:00 +0000 yublocka 57664@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>San the pants you are working on look so intricate. Good on you for learning to do something like this - its exciting!!</p> <p>Hehe Angie I have to side with you being horrified by the "f" word. Every time I hear "fanny pack" I just about die! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57614 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:53:05 +0000 marianne 57614@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>San, thanks for sharing this! It makes a lot of sense, especially with the pictures and it's definitely something to look for when shopping for pants. Sounds like a great class, I hope you post more about what you learn! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57601 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:20:13 +0000 tarzy 57601@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How fascinating. I am coming to understand how important tailoring is. What fun to learn about it, although I'm not sure I would have the patience to measure carefully. Hemming my jeans is the biggest challenge I take on! Can't wait to hear more. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57590 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:51:18 +0000 Angie 57590@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You are clever San! I’m impressed with your creativity and tenacity. I see the perfect white button down shirt in your future :0). And then you'll have us all begging for orders. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57479 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:26:04 +0000 Anonymous 57479@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Maya. I'm glad you are enjoying the post. I don't want to sound like I know it all because I am just learning, but I love it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57476 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:21:01 +0000 Maya 57476@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shiny is definitely right about that. Curved waistbands are for curved figures. No one here ever believes me when I say I have a bubbly butt but it must be true because most rises are too low for me...not just in the front but in the back too. When I had less of a tummy, the comfortable difference for me was about 7"! Now it's down to 5", but not because my butt is any smaller--only because my tum is bigger.</p> <p>That's why I gave my Matchstick jeans away. The front rise was 7" and the back was 11". Both were way too low, and the difference was only 4". </p> <p>San, it's great that you're learning this. Not only does it seem like you're having fun, but the way you're dissecting jeans, you'll probably solve a lot of fit mysteries. Let us know what else you learn! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57475 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:18:59 +0000 Anonymous 57475@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ya you girls with the good behind are very lucky. Unfortunately mine keeps going south. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57473 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:17:31 +0000 Ariadne 57473@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is too funny! I never knew what fanny was slang for in the UK etc...!</p> <p>I have the opposite problem; jeans like your husbands with lots of "swoop" or a higher waistband in the back are much better for my generously shapely behind (which I love, btw). Otherwise I end up with a lot of show when I bend over! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57472 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:12:28 +0000 Anonymous 57472@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>As for this not being a terribly complicated alteration, I agree with you Shiny. Now that we know to take out the extra fabric horizontaly rather than vertically as Joy mentioned earlier.<br /> Also the instructor said that when she says take out a quarter of an inch she is not mistaking. Sometimes it only takes that minute amount to do the trick.<br /> In Orange County her job as assistant to the teacher at the college was to fit an average of 5 people a day all week. After that she became the teacher when the other retired. She is really fun to watch in action because she has seen it all. I'm sure after a while you see all bodies as good, just needing skimming in some areas with fabric. Gotta love it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57470 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:06:14 +0000 Anonymous 57470@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh Lee I envy you having a ba-donk-a-donk. You are so lucky.<br /> As for the classes, these are being held at a sewing/vacumn store where they really want to draw people in for more sales. The teacher is retired from a college in Orange County CA, so I feel extremely fortunate to have her here at our local hangout giving classes. If you are interested you might check a community college to see if they have tailoring classes. It is awesome to learn their secrets.<br /> Shiny I am so glad to have a compatriot in the slim hip club!!! It sounds like you have figured alot of this out on your own from trial and error. The jeans made by Tommy Hilfiger that the instructor brought in as a bad sample were severely swooped from front to back. She said, "We are not built like that, if anything we are built so the waistband should be a little lower in the back". She said, "It's like a recipe that gets handed down from generation to generation that just keeps getting repeated, right or wrong." </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57467 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:24:55 +0000 Lee Hovey 57467@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL what a great thread. And your practice pieces are wonderful! I can't imagine having sewn something together like that. I am very envious!</p> <p>I have the opposite butt problem.. I have myself a ba-donk-a-donk.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57461 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:58:43 +0000 shiny 57461@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the visual!! This is exactly my issue too. I figured out long ago that jeans that were close to the same rise in the back as the front were best fitting and most flattering for me. The Huttons are indeed like this! </p> <p>This doesn't look like a terribly complicated alteration. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57456 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:33:34 +0000 Anonymous 57456@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><a href="http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr132/SJBD-2008/100_0133.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i477.photobucket.com/al.....0_0133.jpg</a><br /> This is a picture of the practice jeans with the tuck taken out for my flat butt, which I then transfered to my tissue pattern before cutting the denim.</p> <p><a href="http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr132/SJBD-2008/100_0135.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i477.photobucket.com/al.....0_0135.jpg</a><br /> These are my husbands jeans with alot of swoop on the waistband from front to back meaning alot of fabric in the butt.</p> <p><a href="http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr132/SJBD-2008/100_0134.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i477.photobucket.com/al.....0_0134.jpg</a><br /> These are my David Kahn and COH jeans which show much less swoop from front to back. However when they are folded this way I can see that the DK's have more fabric in the hip curve which is probably not best for me.</p> <p><a href="http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr132/SJBD-2008/100_0137.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i477.photobucket.com/al.....0_0137.jpg</a><br /> This is my practice shirt with wrinkles. The fit is good but I would add a dart at each back shoulder to add more room for arm movement. I can see that the button placement is bad too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57396 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:31 +0000 Anonymous 57396@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OH NO ANGIE. THAT IS TOO FUNNY. LET ME REPHRASE SOMEHOW. OLD FLAT BUTTOCKS! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57394 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:28:10 +0000 Anonymous 57394@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>To alter my pre made jeans, the instructor said the easy fix is to take off the waistband in the back and cut a half inch from the center to nothing at the side seams, then re attach the waist band. This is then supposed to pull the pants up in the back. I haven't tried it. The whole process is, well, a process. We make a pair and each pair we make after we might continue to fine tune the pattern.<br /> I will try to take some pictures and see if I come up with something that tells a story. I am not the pro by any means. This instructor really knows her stuff. She brought a pair of Tommy Hilfiger jeans in and folded them side seam to side seam to show that the back waistband rides much higher than the front, which she says is so wrong.<br /> With some of her other students who are built different than me she would have them cut the pattern and tape in tissue paper to add room where needed.<br /> Do you see the model to the right for pzi Jeans? I don't have anything to fill out that much fabric in the back like she does. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57391 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:25:04 +0000 Angie 57391@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fab info! </p> <p>This post had me on my back with laugher. A fanny in English-English is NOT your bottom. It’s the front part – the part that’s between your legs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57387 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:20:23 +0000 Elika 57387@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is great advice!</p> <p>My tailor did exactly the same thing recently with a pair of black slacks that was a little roomy on me, with excellent results. </p> <p>It was also very cheap, which gives me the impression that it shouldn't be too difficult an alteration? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57385 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:19:25 +0000 Anonymous 57385@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very interesting! As a fellow flat fanny, I hear you. It would be awesome to be able to make your own pants to fit. My tailor tried to take fabric out verically at the center seam. That doesn't work very well and I ended up donating those pants. What your instructor says makes sense but sounds like it needs to be done in making the pants, not an alteration. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57376 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:07:13 +0000 shiny 57376@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>San, I would love it if you could take some photos of this so we can visualize. I have a hunch I know what you're talking about (having analyzed "jeans that don't fit me well vs jeans that fit better"), but I am not sure if I have it right. This doesn't sound like an easy alteration to make on clothes though - more like something you have to start from scratch with? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/old-flat-fannie-here#post-57367 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:01:48 +0000 Anonymous 57367@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I learned something in my pattern fitting class that I would like to share. We are making a pair of jeans now. We start with buying a pattern and then making a mock up (called a sloaper) out of cheap fabric to try on. The instructor looked at my behind in my sloaper and said "We're going to have to take a tuck in your pants." I asked "why" and she said "flat fannie". Hmmm. I laughed. So this is why I have such a difficult time getting dressed and my $150 jeans have to be covered up in the back. I had to take my paper pattern and slice it across the back from within one eigth inch from the side to side, under the pockets, then overlap the tissue paper to take a half inch out of the amount of fabric in the middle of the butt.<br /> I thought possibly this story could help some of you other "flat fannies" understand the why of the fitting problem. Hope it helps.<br /> I asked the intructor about the pair of designer jeans I was wearing and she said they also needed to be taken apart and have the extra fabric taken out to fit properly. </p>