The taiming of the pajama pant

Dear Simplicity Pattern Company

It’s not that I don’t understand the concept of wearing ease. In fact I think leisure wear should be a bit roomy, it’s more comfortable that way. But what I don’t understand is why you have to add around 13 inches of ease around the thighs of your 9499 pajama pant pattern. And why you add almost as much ease around the hips. Another thing that I don’t understand is why you couldn’t have supplied a XS in your pattern envelope, it’s not exactly as you exhausted yourself with the size range that you offer with this pattern anyway.

In total I had to cut away over 4 inches from your pattern, and yet the pants are still pretty baggy. I think it’s time that you updated your men pajama pant range and moved this pattern to your costume section, since the sizing is more for clown pants than pajama pants in my opinion.

Also can you please explain this to me?

I don’t think I can take this much design innovation in one sitting.

Regards
Johanna

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Alrighty, enough of the rant and over to the positive things. My boyfriend really likes his new pajama pants (it was a surprise gift) and he has already worn them a lot. And all in all I too like how they turned out. The striped flannel makes the pants look really smart and my eldest daughter (who offered me some feedback during the fitting process, since I had to try them on myself) gave me a great compliment when I showed her the end result “I don’t know how you do it, but the clothes you make doesn’t look homemade at all!”. That made me feel all happy inside.

I used a combination of elastic and drawstrings for the waist. The original pattern calls just putting elastic in a casing, but I prefer my solution since it makes the waist adjustable.

So yes, in the end I think the pajama pants turned out fine. But next time I’ll draft the pattern myself.