These were some ill-fitting Brooks Brothers pants, part of a suit I found at Housing Works last January. The suit was $20 and the jacket fit great, so I set the pants aside as a future project.
Today the future arrived. It would be an internet crime to post the before picture, but this is a photo of the initial alterations I made: I brought in the outer seams by an inch and tapered the pant leg (originally, they were wide and straight). I left some room in the hip which I think gives a playful, yet put-together appearance to the cut.
I also took in the waist by an inch, and fussed with the rear seam to tighten up the behind. So far, the fit is good. The next phase will be to trim the remaining fabric and decide on a nice finish for the edges of the seam.
