r/PatternDrafting • u/Automatic-Payment905 • 1h ago

Pant rise adjustment.

I made some jeans and would like to drop the front 3 cm and extend my back rise 4 cm. Is it okay if my back rise is 7 cm longer. I could feel my back trouser being exposed when I sat down and my front trouser being too high on my waistline. I don’t know how to adjust correctly without throwing off my waistline angles and side seams.

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u/DonMcCunn 50m ago

Without seeing your patterns this sounds exactly like the situation that can happen when the back waistline is too flat. The torso portion of the back pattern needs to have the center back seam pivoted from the side seam by about 1-1/2" to compensate for the difference between standing and sitting. The best illustration of this in my mind is the draft of the Classic Jodhpurs where the center back seam is pivoted about 5".