Cutting out shape to include overlapping fills

I work with pattern pieces (garments). I have a pant leg with a pattern fill that has porous (wool texture). I want to put a solid fill at the back to have the solid blue come through the woven texture. I want to end up with a pant leg that has the overlapped fills, blue and woven to give me the effect of the blue coming through only so need to clip out the pant leg from the layers. I've tried soft mix, creating a compound shape, various tricks in pathfinder. I can certainly clip out the pant leg shape with and without either the woven pattern or the solid blue but how can I slip out shape with both fills overlapped? All three layers are
grouped.

nathay,
As I misunderstand it, you may:
1) Select the pant path (as in the screenshot) then Ctrl/Cmd+C+B to create a copy behind;
2) ShiftClick the rectangle path on the Artboard or in the Layers palette to also select that;
3) Object>Clipping Mask>Make or Ctrl/Cmd+7.
That should hide the rectangle part outside the pant path.

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