Kick your tailor to the curb and hem jeans yourself!
If you aren’t 5’11” you will appreciate this little tutorial. Women’s jeans nowadays seem to come in one length: Supermodel long. If you cut the bottom off and hem them traditionally, you loose all that funky stitching and distressing. Lets face it, a pair of badly hemmed jeans screams fashion victim.
Simply follow these easy steps from DaciaRay and you can alter your own jeans with confidence.
A few extra tips:
-Wash your jeans a few times, so they do not shrink up on you!
-It helps to have a full-length mirror and a friend to pin the hem for you.
-Remember the seamstress motto: “Measure twice, cut once.”
-You can also cut the extra fabric off the inside of the jeans, so you don’t have to worry about it flopping around. Leave a 5/8″ seam allowance and zigzag the raw edge to prevent fraying.
Oooh! I so needed this! I finally broke down an paid a seamstress to hem my Chip and Pepper’s, and now I’ll only be able to wear them for a couple of more months b/c I’m pregnant.
Right now I have two size twelve jeans for my second trimester, but I”m growing out not longer, so of course I’m going to have to hem them. But I don’t want to pay a ton of money to hem $30 jeans that I’m (hopefully) going to use for only a few months, so this is going to come in totally handy.
Though, don’t be surprised if I call, asking for step-by-step guidance.
oh, and great chuck norris pic