Another thigh hole rubber here. I have this same problem with my scrub pants at work. I was tired of throwing the pants out when they were otherwise perfect except for the small holes in the uppermost inner thigh. At first I tried to just even up the edges and resew the center seam. The only problem with this is that you really shorten the rise. If you have pants with a good amount of slack, I would try to just trim up where the edges are worn and sew them back up. If no room then you can patch them.
I have devised a relatively simple way to patch them I am willing to share. I only hope I can explain it in a way that makes sense.
To make a patch you need matching material. I usually save a pair of otherwise worn out pants to use for patching material.
turn the pants inside out, lay flat with inner leg seam straight on the table. Determint the farthest point down the leg from the crotch where the fabric is worn and make a dot on the seam. From that dot draw line at an approximatly 30 degree angle to the center seam. (front to back seam) use these measurments to cut the corresponding wedge out of the other upper leg of the pants. This will cut out the worn out circles and you will be left with a roughly diamond shaped cutout in the crotch of the pants.
You will use this cutout for the pattern for the patch. Lay the cutout along the lower seam of the leg of the previously saved worn out pants. The material there will still be perfect. Add 1/4 seam allowance.
fold the patch in half right sides together seam to seam and make a row of running stiches about 1/8 inch from the folded edge. What you are doing is making a seam to match up with the center seam of the pants. You should now have a kite shaped piece of material with seams from point to point.
Match the seams and points of the patch to the cut out area and sew together with a double row of stiches. If you want you can iron on a patch on the inside of the leg to reinforce all the seams.
This may sound a little complicated but it is really an easy repair. It will double the life of your work pants yet really looks neat and undetectable.
Featherlou’s comment about Teflon isn’t far off the mark- I found that a squirt of ScotchGard sprayed on the crotch (about every time you wear the pants) helps them slip more easily at the crotch. Be careful, as this will NOT work on all fabrics, some fabrics are discolored, etc. I save my pants with a combination of the spray and crotch liners and boxer briefs. Seems like a lot of trouble but big/tall sizes aren’t cheap.
[hijack] I had a sleep study a couple months ago, and while I rarely wear pajamas I had my one and only pair on, due to rules of the hospital. After the study was over, I went to the bathroom to shower before leaving and found that i had an unknown wear hole in the crotch of my pajama bottoms through which my testes were hanging. They must have been that way most of the night, as the examiner came in repeatedly and adjusted electrodes, etc, and I was so embarrassed I couldn’t speak to him afterwards.[/hijack]
A tailor once suggested to me that adding a piece to the crotch when the pants are new will extend their life.
I have tried this and it works.
What the tailor does is to open the seam at the top of the crotch down about 6-7 inches each side. Then depending on how the pants are made either he resews the seam to allow more room at the top, or if there is insufficent material adds a triangular piece to give more room.
This process coupled with a linning will stave off the dreaded hole syndrome.
One other option if you are buying dress pants is to buy custom made. I had a suit made a couple of years ago and it wasn’t much more than ready to wear and the damn thing fit!
I love you, billy, you know I do, but I think you’re full of it. How could this embarrass you after the stuff you’ve already said/done/seen/blown out your hind end?
Cranky, farting is one thing. Hell, I consider farting to be one of the great undiscovered arts of this century. It should be an olympic sport. Farting never embarrasses me.
Inadvertently showing someone your nads when they clearly were not there to see your nads and you had no desire to show them your nads is another thing altogether. It’s like the difference between breastfeeding in public, which one might do under perfectly normal circumstances, or giving birth in public, which one might try to avoid at all costs. Clearer now?
Of course, it could be that I need a check-up from the neck-up. Like that should surprise you. LOL!
