How to hem pants 🥝 with a hidden seam

Modern men, when choosing new clothes, often encounter such a common problem as improper length of trousers. Particularly affected are men of short and medium stature, who find it extremely difficult to choose normal clothing in all respects. Fortunately, this problem is easily solved, and you can even do it yourself. Today we will learn how to shorten trousers at home. Of course, the masters of any atelier can help in this, but why pay someone extra money if everything can be done efficiently and quickly.

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How long should the pants be?

Before learning the technique of shortening trousers, it is necessary to determine what length is considered normal. To find out how long your pants should be, try on them with the boots with which you plan to wear them.

Important! Remember that even flat shoes without a heel, although slightly, but raise the foot. That is why it is so important to try on trousers with shoes.

Then you should tuck the legs, and you get the right length. You just need to fix the bottom of the legs with pins, so that it is easier to work with them. In such a case, it is advisable to find an assistant so as not to make a mistake with the measurements.

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What tools do you need to shorten your trousers?

Do you decide how to shorten your pants at home? Then first prepare all the tools that you will need during the work:

• Adhesive for working with fabrics. If you did not find this, then you can use the most ordinary PVA glue. But remember that the main goal is a reliable attachment of the material, so the glue should be of high quality. By the way, after washing, it may dissolve if it is selected incorrectly.
• Carnations or pins for fabric. With their help, you can produce high-quality ironing of the legs. But first, the pants will have to be laid out on a hard plane.
• Threads in tone and needles.

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How to shorten your pants yourself?

Now we will consider several options for how to shorten trousers at home without a machine using glue and ordinary hemming.

Adhesive shortening

In the course of work, the glue is not squeezed out immediately, but applied with a clove. It must be extended from the original edge on both trousers to one side. Then fold like a cuff on a shirt. In other words, the legs must be rolled inward. Then, carefully press the place where the fabric is glued so that the glue works and fixes it. Do the same with the other side of the trousers. As soon as both sides are processed, you need to put something heavy on the legs and fix it in a stationary state until the glue dries.

Important! If soon you decide that you need to shorten the pants a little more, you can again roll them up and glue them using the same technique. But at the same time, a noticeable and rather thick layer of fabric is formed that will not look very nice. It is better to make wider cuffs, but keep in mind that thin stripes look much more interesting, especially if these pants will be low and medium guys.

Shortening trousers with hemming

Hemming occurs as follows:

• First you need to flog the old seam. This is done using the most ordinary clerical knife. As a result, you should get a completely embroidered hem.

Important! If you don’t have such a knife, then use manicure scissors or a regular sharp knife.

• Fix the bottom line of the legs with pins, iron the trousers. If you attach them unevenly, you will have to correct the situation immediately, otherwise - then you will get an uneven seam.
• Try on pants again to double-check whether you measured the correct length or not.
• Remove the pins, cut off the excess piece of fabric along the line. To use for this you need not ordinary scissors, but a zigzag. They are designed specifically for treating tissues so that then it does not crumble. Do the same with the second leg.
• Fold the bottom of the trousers so that they can be sewn, but at the same time leave an allowance of 1-1.5 cm. Using a needle and thread to the tone of the pants, hem the bottom.
• Go to the end and fasten the thread so that it firmly fixes the fabric. Repeat the same with the second leg.

Done!

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In principle, the same actions can be performed on a sewing machine, but it is not always at hand. And the listed shortening options are considered the simplest and fastest to execute, not requiring any special skills and knowledge.