Re-working a Badly Designed and Costly Pattern

Three Pair of Vintage Pants

Those pants I made and then modified a couple weeks ago, don't really fit right, and they are awful. So here I go again. The pattern, as so many are, is completely mis-sized (Very Expensive to find out they can't get a pattern right!! A brand new pair of jeans tossed in the trash!) So I am adding to both sides to bring it into a more correct size. It's a zipper fly pattern, but he wants button fly, so I am modifying that too. I am making them big enough to put a some elastic in the back, to make them easier to get on and off (like, leaving the button fly buttoned) and adding interior buttons so that he can use his beloved suspenders, and look like a character from 'Little House on the Prairie'.

1" bigger on both sides

Cut down the crotch to the pins

Beginning sewing 1 of 3 pairs

To add button fly, you need an additional fly set

I put the fly in (and out) 3 times..

The waistband is bigger than the pants

Putting in the pocket

They are starting to come along

Waistband is really thick!

I haven't added buttons or elastic

One pocket is a little wonky.

Made 2 right fronts, time for ripping

Waistband, hem and all the buttons...

The suspender buttons going on

With elastic, is it strong enough...

They are a bit too big, more elastic!