Thank you for your suggestions - I also thought the opening must be way lower than the regular fly. I also examined carefully the sketch of the codpiece in pattern cutting for men's costume (great book, by the way) and I found the triangle is inserted just at the point the inner seam and crotch seam meet and is sewn between the legs - some inches after that it goes into the codpiece and opening or attachment of the codpiece is really 1-2 inches lower than the modern fly.
This arose another question - the triangle that's to be inserted between the legs actually adds more room. There can be more room between the legs for movement, but not extra room in the lower part of the front section - it would make the hose too loose at the hips. Am I right to cut off a bit of the front part to accomodate this? It would cause a small gap (equal the width of the triangle) in the front seam, but that's - I think - right. It will be covered by the codpiece anyway - the vidible "gap" part will be just about 2" above the codpiece: http://www.brodec.org/malesov_2007/slides/P1030813.html (The hose is really terrible, but I put it here just to show what I mean with the gap) The only thing that confuses me is that neither Thursfield nor E.Friendship suggest cutting off the front part because of the inserted triangle. What do you think? Zuzana _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
