Recently I have been wondering about a detail of typical tail patterns. I know that many tail makers ask for measurements at different points, along your body, and the distance of each point from the floor or ankle. Normally those distances are measured along your side. Just for fun I also measured the distance from my ankles to my waist at the front and rear, in all cases holding the tape against my body, to capture the actual distance taking into account my shape.
I found that the distance was 2 inches shorter in the front than the side measurement, and 3 inches longer in the rear. But tail makers do not seem to take this into account. The result is that tails seem to ride high in front, and low in the rear.
I would think that to account for this you would want to not cut the waist as a straight line, but curved. For the front half, cut it arced down, and cut it arced up in the rear. Also, as a curve is longer than a straight line, you would have to reduce the distance between the side seams making each tail skin half about an inch narrower at the waist.
Anyone else thought about this?
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