Ultimate Pants

Get 48 of Dress Shop's "Best Pants I've Ever Worn" patterns. With 48 versatile pants patterns and endless combinations of options and adjustment alternatives, you can make whole wardrobes of perfectly fitting pants, tailored to fit anyone you sew for!

Patterns included:

Fitted, Semi-Fitted, Loose, Leggings, Culottes, Pleated, Jeans, Warmups, Baggy, Princess Line, Hip Huggers, Skort, Tap Pants, Panty, Bikini Panty, Palazzo, Slim Fit, One-Seam, Bell Bottoms, Slacks, Trousers, Flared, Tapered, Fitted Boot Cut, Tapered Boot Cut, Slim Fit Boot Cut, Tights, Bike Pants, Pajama Pants, Sweats, Scrubs, Drawstring Pants, Painter's Pants, Low-Rise (3 versions), Cargo, and Smooth Front Pants.

A description for each of these pants styles is listed below.

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  Pants style descriptions.

Items with parentheses have variations based on those other styles. For instance, (l,s,f) would include loose, semi-fitted, and fitted variations. When looking up a full description, look up the variant too. That is, look up loose pants as well as hip hugger when looking for the Loose Hip Hugger ease amounts.

Name Description
   
Baggy Loose fitting pants through the body and through the leg. Very comfortable, suitable for casual styles in a twill or medium weight fabric. Can also be used with drapey fabric to create a dressier pant.
Bell-Bottoms A classic that’s back! Close fitting to the knee, then flaring to 5 inches wider than needed for ankle size, with a slight curve to the hem. 
Boot Cut (f,s,t) Carefully tooled to provide that extra width from knee to ankle to allow room for a boot underneath, but not so much to counter the slim line of the pant. These come in fitted, tapered, and slim fit styles. Each fits as their namesake to the knee, but then drops straight (essentially), staying knee width to the hem. The hem is raised in the front and lowered in the back to fit properly over a boot.
Bicycle Pants
*PP		 Very close fitting, intended to be made from stretch fabric. Actually smaller than the body measurements.
Cargo
*PP		 Loose, wide, dropped crotch and lots of pockets of all kinds. The signature pockets on the side are large and square, but you can mix and match pocket styles as you like. Comes with an optional hem-band at the ankle. 
Culottes (s/a/f) Traditional pant with a skirt-like look. Lower crotch and longer crotch extension, plus fuller legs all contribute to the look.
Drawstring Looser pant with casing for a drawstring. Sew entrance and exit openings either side of the center front – the most common way to create the openings is with a simple vertical buttonhole.
Fitted Fitted to waist, ab and hip, with a straight taper to the ankle.
Flared A gentle taper toward the knee, then a flare to the ankle on both inseam and outseam, distinguishes these pants. Suitable as a casual or dressy pant, depending on the fabric.
Hip Hugger (l,s,f)
*PP(f)		 Loose, semi-fitted, or fitted styles that come to the hip level, below the waist by the difference between your Floor To Waist Side and Floor To Hip measurements.
Jeans Close fitting in the waist, ab, hip, and crotch, these pants also contour the buttocks, pulling in more at the upper thigh than the fitted pants do.
Leggings Very close fitting, intended to be made from stretch fabric, but not intended to be stretched to fit.
Loose Loose fitting pants have ease through the ab and hip, and a wider leg than most other pants. There is a small amount of taper in the leg on the pattern, but the visual effect is that of straight-legged pants.
Low Rise (l,s,f)
*PP(f)		 Loose, semi-fitted, or fitted styles that come up to the abdomen level, below the waist by whatever your Ab Depth measurement indicates.
One-Seam (l,s,f)
*PP(s)		 No outseam! These loose, semi-fitted, or fitted styles have a wrap-around leg that sews together at the inseam and crotch only. Easy to sew, forgiving in the fit, and with a distinctive look, the one-seam pants can be dressy or casual, depending on the fabric. Optional hem-band to pull the ankle in snug if you like.
Painter's This traditional pant is straight-legged with pockets, and is most commonly made from denim.
Palazzo Palazzo Pants flare from the hip. Mostly used for dressy pants, in drapey fabric.
Panty (s,l,b) Options for stretch-to-fit (make with stretchy knit) or form fit (silk or satin). The panty patterns also include waist level (waist, ab, or hip) and legline (boy cut (flat leg) to French (very high on the hip).
Pajama Very loose and comfortable, with lots of room at waist, hip, crotch and legs. Elastic waist only.
Pleated (l,s,f) Pants with one pleat, in loose, semi-fitted or fitted styles. The pleat may be adjusted for width, and may be designed to pleat just through the body of the pants (which adds very little extra width to the pant leg) or the pleat may be designed to travel the length of the leg, in which case some width is added to the pattern through the leg.
Princess (l,s,f) Loose, semi-fitted, or fitted pants with princess seaming down the front instead of darts or other shaping mechanism. Darted in the back.
Scrubs
*PP		 The pattern for all our medical professionals. Loose but not sloppy.
Semi-Fitted Some ease added through the ab and hip of this pant. Straight taper to the pant hem which is moderate. Suitable for dress pants, or for individuals who want only a small amount of contouring in their pants.
Skort Shorts with a wrap piece across the front. Gives the illusion of a wrap skirt, but with the security of shorts. Very popular with teens.
Slacks
*PP		 Semi-fitted silhouette, with a slightly lowered crotch. The classic style for dress pants.
Slim Fit
*PP		 Fitted through the waist, ab and hip, with virtually no ease. Contoured leg gives the slimmest fit with the least ease, short of the leggings pattern.
Smooth Front Pant with all front contouring in the side seam, no darts, pleats or other seam interruptions from side seam to center front. Individuals with significant differences between waist and ab measurements will get a strongly curved side seam which is difficult to sew to the back pant, which retains the dart shaping and will have a more flat hip curve to the pattern.
Sweats
*PP		 Elastic waist and cuff, straight legline. Partially fitted waist. Loose crotch. Intended for comfortable fit and to be made from stretch knit fabric.
Tap Pants Very short shorts. Designed as lingerie, to be worn under street clothes or as intimate wear at home.
Tapered Fitted through the waist, ab and hip, with virtually no ease. Contoured leg, with more contour than the fitted pant or jean, but less contouring than the slim fit pant.
Tights Stretch to fit, this skin-tight garment should to be made from a knit with 100% stretch factor and recovery, such as lycra.
Trousers
*PP		 Some ease added through ab and hip, for a looser fit (but not baggy). Increased crotch length and crotch depth from the standard pant silhouette. Sometimes used as a dress pant for those who like a looser fit than the slack offers. Pant leg is slightly tapered on the pattern, but the visual effect is that of a straight legged pant with no tapering.
Warmups Very loose, hangs straight to the floor. No leg shaping at all. Elastic waist. Optional elastic cuff. These are meant to be baggy and non-binding.