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I'm bumping this question since I'm still interested in a clean way to alter the waist in fishtail back trousers.
I apologise I'm resuming this old thread but I think this is the right place to ask.
I have a pair of (bespoke) trousers with fishtail back which I love and wear with pride. The problem is that they were cut for the days in which I was a 28, while now I am more like a 29-30. I can still wear them but not with great comfort. There is a sufficient amount of cloth in the seat to let out and moreover there are no pockets in the back but the fishtail piece doesn't have any allowance in the centre seam. Plus if I had someone insert a new piece, it would distort the fishtail shape, putting the two back brace buttons too distant each other.
I am not a professional and have almost zero tailoring knowledge, but I thought I could just have the new pieces inserted in correspondence of the sides, having the seat altered at the centre back with the existing cloth and then the whole waistband recut in the new position. Would be it crazy/too expensive?