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  1. Tomorrow I am going to start on my initial prototype unitard, and I have been thinking for a little while now about construction. In my first post, I mentioned trying to eliminate the vertical center back seam from the unitard. After spending a lot of time thinking about how to do this and sketching it out (see images below), I am now thinking this may not be the best course of action. Here's why: 1. To eliminate the back seam, I would need to cut the back piece of the suit on the fold of the fabric. When the pattern piece is laid out to do this, the low back curve is lost, and space is added here. This alone is a big problem for me, with my understanding of how clothes normally fit me. Even on form-fitting t-shirts, I have loose fabric in the low back area. If I were to cut the back pattern piece in this way, I would probably have the same problem with the unitard fit. 2. Laying out the back pattern piece as described above puts the inner thigh area outside the fabric fold, so this would need to become an additional piece, which would be sewn on as an inner thigh gusset. Therefore, if I remove the back seam, I would add two additional leg seams to each leg. After considering these two points, I think I'm going to move forward with the version with the vertical center back seam, per the pattern. I think this will fit my body better, and the added inner thigh seams will be more noticeable than the back seam. I can't claim that either is more true to the comic images, as no seams lines are shown (it's a comic, so no need to show such things!), so if anyone feels that the alternate construction minus the back seam, plus the inner thigh gusset would be better, please let me know! I have enough practice fabric to make a second prototype if needed.
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