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I love 3/4 sleeves... Long ones get in the way, short ones let my arms get cold! But you can chop them off where you like, or add as much length as you want...

It's a pretty style. Just be careful to make a toile first, as on larger ladies that under bust line can come too high up...

It will be well toilled and checked in every detail. I'm not in a hurry, I just like the style and want that one nice dress in the closet. It looks like a the one I'd grab when I'm just in the mood for something other than pants when we go out. I live in pants, Jeans, trousers and opera pants. I need to change my look a little. Juno

Juno, what are opera pants please?

Mary

Music while you work?

Lizzy

Hit a send when I shouldn't have. Opera pants are are very dressy pants, wide legs, lined inside and Georgette on the outside. Mine are black. I bought them 10 years ago for my DS wedding. I've worn them at least 30 times, probably more. Great for very dressy occasions. Put on a different top and your ready to go with a new outfit. I paid about $50.00 for them and have probably gotten $1000.00 worth of wear. I throw them in the washing machine on gentle cycle and hang them to dry. Love those pants. We're going to a wedding this Saturday and the weather is looking rainy, so I'll wear them then with a pretty top and be very comfortable. Juno

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Mirjam, Many years ago I had a coat dress that I wore to someones house for a fund raiser. The hostess greeted me with a hanger in her hand and asked for my coat. I smiled and told her at her own risk, it was my dress and I wasn't about to take it off in front of 100 people. She was very embarrassed, I laughed. Juno

LOL! I can't see Turandot performed in a factory canteen.

Mary

Thanks for that.

Do you know WHY they're called opera pants?

Mary

No, I can only guess because they are very dressy, Juno

Here people go to the opera in any clothes - even jeans. Shades of USSR in the 50s!

Mary

I think it's a matter of place. In Manhattan some people dress to the nines, some go in whatever they have. I also think it;s a matter of how much money you have. I don't think the name of the pants really have much to do with going to the opera per se any longer. Just very dress pants that sort of look like a long skirt. Juno

The RTW outfit I wore for DD's wedding was similar (at the time they were marketed as "car-wash-pants" - nasty name). Silky lining, with georgette over, and the georgette split up to the hip, so it moved nicely. I loved that outfit:

prefer to call that look "palazzo pants" although I'm unlikely to visit any palazzos any time soon either. Beverly

> I prefer to call that look "palazzo pants" although I'm > unlikely to visit any palazzos any time soon either.>

Great outfit, terrible name. I love clothes like that. They make you feel so elegant. That why my pants have been worn so many times. You always look good and feel good. The day DS got married I kept getting the same 2 compliments, "You look great and so comfortable" It's been that way every time I've worn them, and you know that's how they make me feel. There's nothing like clothes that make you feel good. Juno

Agreed! ;-}

I also have a pair of wide-legged velvet pants, I can pair with several different tunics and blouses, and I'm comfortable as well as styling. I wore them with the burn-out silk velvet top I made for my 50th class reunion:

was perfectly comfortable on a fairly warm evening.Beverly

Juno,

Where did you find the measurements for the pattern? I'm curious - a petite that usually has to alter a lot to shorten in the top especially and bring in (width-wise) along the top - - You've caught my attention for this dress - sounds like it might be a good pattern for practicing fitting adjustments. :)

Thanks!

-Susan

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> I prefer to call that look "palazzo pants" although I'm unlikely to visit > any palazzos any time soon either.>

Oh.,

Another question - what's a palazzo?

Sorry to be such a bore ...

Mary

>>> I prefer to call that look "palazzo pants" although I'm unlikely to visit >> any palazzos any time soon either.>>

Mary, the definition of palazzo Palazzo is more broadly used in Italian than its English equivalent ?palace?. In Italy, a palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown or of an institution, or even what the British would call a ?block of flats? or a tenement. Etymology

The words ?palazzo? (Italian), ?palace? (English) or ?palais? (French) and the other similar words come from the name of the Palatine hill in Rome. On this hill the patrician family Julia (?gens Julia? in Latin) owned some land and built their residence. When Octavian became Roman emperor after his succession to Julius Caesar their home and the name of the Palatine hill itself became synonymous with Imperial residence. Your not a bore and I'm glad you ask the questions. Pushes me to find out what words that I frequently use really mean. Juno