How Do You Hem Pants While Keeping The Original Bottom?
Many people have experienced the frustrating problem of having to buy their jeans and other pants too long, as commercial clothing is not made to fit specific bodies. This generalized sizing has resulted in people roughly cutting their jeans off, ordering expensive custom jeans and even simply wearing unflattering, overly long jeans. However, there is no need to put up with clothes that do not fit, spend money hiring a tailor or resort to unflattering amateur hemming. You can achieve the pant length you want by hemming your own pants on your home sewing machine and leaving the original bottom edge intact. Determine how much shorter your existing pair of pants should be. To do so, put on the pants with the shoes you will normally be wearing with them, and have a friend help you measure where the hem should fall. You may want your hem to fall several inches above the bottom of a pair of sneakers, just at ground level or an inch or two above the bottom of a pair of heels, depending on the
