pants are still weird

I've been poking away at the trousers over the past couple of days, and now they're almost done, except for hems...mainly because I was too lazy to go find the boots I'm going to wear with it to make sure I hemmed them the right length.

I find them extremely amusing; I put them on today and just started giggling. Probably doesn't help that my butt is stuffed with my chemise! Not uncomfortably stuffed, but definitely ridiculously stuffed.
 
(I have managed to cut off my feet in photos but as the trousers aren't hemmed anyway, that's no great loss.)

Please admire that none of my plaids line up anywhere, including the seam that I needed to get a piece long enough for the pattern shapes! Ummm, non-matching plaids are period?? xD (I really do actually match plaids on modern skirts and stuff, I swear.)
 
Does this make my ass look big? (yes. definitely.)

Admire the lovely totally-period (not) green cotton broadcloth lining...

And the somewhat-improvised lacing. The pattern called for a buckle and tab, of course...but the only little metal buckles I can get at work are the shitty vest buckles that don't have any real teeth, so there would be zero point in hoping one of them would hold my trousers up. Needle and Thread, of course, sells them, but I don't want to order a bunch of stuff I don't need just so they'll ship a buckle to me, nor do I want to wait til I actually go to Gettysburg to get it. So. Lacing and rings it was! At least I know linen tape will keep my trousers up. ;)

I'd like to get the trousers and short skirt hemmed tomorrow, then that'll leave me Friday and Saturday to finish a modern lemon-print skirt (another thing that's been laying around unfinished for waaaay too long) and figure out my bedgown pattern, which I think is what I want to bring to the stitch-n-bitch this weekend.