I don't think I've ever bought a pair of dress pants that didn't have to be hemmed. Jeans yes, but dress pants, no. I don't know if that's because I'm short, or because they make them long for the taller girls and we just have to adjust, which would make sense, but for whatever reason, they're always 1 to 3 inches too long even in heels.
I remember when I was younger my mother would put on her
new slacks and stand on a small stool so I could pin them to the right length for her to hem. I watched her hem many a pant leg in her day! Interestingly enough my grandmother was an excellent, professional seamstress and did hems for people on her sewing machine like a pro. But I don't' remember her ever doing my mother's - I imagine she figured Mom could do her own. Or Mom didn't want to ask her, I don't know which! Fortunately, Mom taught me early on how to do a decent hem so it's not a huge job, although I do them by hand and not on the machine.
On a rare occasion I've taken new dress pants in to the seamstress to be hemmed for me. If they're for a special occasion, like a wedding, and I want them to be sturdy hems that won't snag or pull, I take them in. I always feel like its a luxury to have someone else actually put a professional hem in my pants. Sometimes the smallest things can seem like a wonderful extravagance, and having my pants hemmed is one of them.
I just sat now and hemmed two new pair of cotton pants for the summer and wondered how long they'd last. My patience with this job is slight and I tend to make big stitches where smaller ones would be more advisable.
My grandmother would not have been pleased.
I remember when I was younger my mother would put on her
new slacks and stand on a small stool so I could pin them to the right length for her to hem. I watched her hem many a pant leg in her day! Interestingly enough my grandmother was an excellent, professional seamstress and did hems for people on her sewing machine like a pro. But I don't' remember her ever doing my mother's - I imagine she figured Mom could do her own. Or Mom didn't want to ask her, I don't know which! Fortunately, Mom taught me early on how to do a decent hem so it's not a huge job, although I do them by hand and not on the machine.On a rare occasion I've taken new dress pants in to the seamstress to be hemmed for me. If they're for a special occasion, like a wedding, and I want them to be sturdy hems that won't snag or pull, I take them in. I always feel like its a luxury to have someone else actually put a professional hem in my pants. Sometimes the smallest things can seem like a wonderful extravagance, and having my pants hemmed is one of them.
I just sat now and hemmed two new pair of cotton pants for the summer and wondered how long they'd last. My patience with this job is slight and I tend to make big stitches where smaller ones would be more advisable.
My grandmother would not have been pleased.
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I think I have the world's shortest legs. Guess what that means? Shortening everything. I'm good at it, but don't like doing it at all.
That reminds me...a skirt of my Mom's awaits my shortening.
PS...I suggest that you don't ever try that iron on tape that is supposed to make the job easier for you. It doesn't work.
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