Since receiving my bodysuit I’ve been wracking my brains for how best to install the tail zip, since upon closer inspection & despite excellent communication with the suit maker, the tail port circumferance is 9cm too long (aka was cut oversized compared to info/replica tail base I provided).
The best & easiest solution I could come up with was repatterning a piece to close the tail port, reinforce that new seam which will overlap the zip, & recutting the port hole according to matrices zip on tail tutorial. Behold, the plug piece pattern, that took forever & stole my sanity!