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 across the knees and swings out the back, it's because the run at the waistline is wrong. In the reverse case, where the skirt pokes out in front, the slant at the waistline needs altering on the pattern.

If a skirt pattern was made for a woman whose waistline ran straight around, that is, was parallel to the floor at all points, and then