Hem long pants

This week I wanted to share with you how long your pant length should be for different types of pants. There's a range of different lengths suitable to different cuts of pants.

Missy Luukkonen on Instagram: "Calling anyone who’s bought the perfect jeans only to find that the length isn’t quite right….or if you’re a short girl like me they are usually 5” too long! We all know that when you hem jeans the traditional way, the look like they have been hemmed. The way to avoid that is to keep the original hem. Here is how to do just that: Put them on and cuff them up to your desired length. Stand up straight and put on some shoes to make sure you like where they…

Learn how to hem jeans with your sewing machine and reusing the original hem. Shorten your denim pants and keep the same look!

I catch the train almost every day into the city to shop and on weekdays particularly I see hems sitting well past their intended length. Some are sitting crumpled around the ankle, others hugging the underneath of the wearers heel with a few grams of Sydney’s street grime on them and on the odd occasion I spy a little row of safety pins holding up a recently (or likely not so recently) fallen hem.

So, your pants are too long. We've all been there, where the length of our legs just don't match the length of our trousers, and we must decide whether we should shorten our pants, lengthen our legs,...

guide to pants lengths.

Tired of wearing jeans that are too long for you? This brilliant sewing hack makes it easy to adjust the length while keeping the look of the original hem! I…