How to hem pants manually?

Very often we are faced with the need to hem pants. Classic situation: bought pants, they fit well, but do not fit in length. For children, during their intensive growth, parents try to buy pants with a margin in order to at least slightly delay the need for another purchase of clothing for a grown child. There are no situations to consider, but the solution is one, or rather two: either you take the trousers to the atelier or try to solve the problem yourself. Learning to do this once, you will be spared the need to use the services of the studio every time. So, let's figure out how to hem pants correctly?

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Fitting

To begin with, of course, we need to determine the length of trousers we need, how much to cut, so that instead of trousers we do not get breeches. The best option is to put them on the future owner, it would also be nice with shoes for greater clarity.

When trying on, consider the following points:

• If the pants are of a classic cut, then the back panel of the leg should be lower than the middle of the heel on the shoes.
• For jeans, you need to leave the length of the leg, slightly extending beyond the heel.
• For women's flared trousers, the leg should be up to the middle of the heel.
• Skinny pants should be ankle-deep.

If there is no way to try on pants directly on the owner, then you can take other pants of this person and make a mark on them. The mark can be made with soap, chalk, well, or something else, for example, stabbed with pins.

Important! Having measured the desired length, you need to leave a few centimeters for allowances:

• for men's trousers leave 4 cm;
• female - 3 cm;
• for children, you can leave 5-6 cm.

There are several reasons for this:

• Be sure to need a stock, suddenly after washing the pants sit down a little.
• A small hem gives a visible seal.

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Leg preparation:

1. Cut the trousers as evenly as possible. It is best to fasten the legs with pins, combine the side and inner seams and trim with two scissors at once.
2. The cut points are best treated with an overlock, zigzag, or simply sheathed edges with a looped seam.

Important! This is done so that the threads do not fray and the edge is neat.

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Hem pants manually

There are a lot of ways to properly sew men's trousers; each craftswoman can choose the option that is most convenient for her. Here is one simple one:

1. You can use a special adhesive tape at the bend, but it must be duplicated with a blind seam, since after the first wash the glue will come off and the tape will fall off. It is used rather for fixation, so that it is convenient to process the seam.
2. The torso, turned inside out, is bent 3-4 cm, the fold is smoothed through gauze, then an adhesive tape is laid along the edge and ironed.
3. Then, the bent part is sewn with a blind seam. The product is turned out and the hands are ironed with a steam iron or through gauze.

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Hem pants on a sewing machine

Many use trouser tape, which keeps the fabric in place of its fold. Such a tape is sewn only on men's trousers. How to hem pants on a sewing machine? It would seem that it’s complicated, I took the tape and sewed it. But there are tricks here:

• It is not necessary to twist the edge of the tape at the point of its connection, then the joint will be very rough. Maybe on tight trousers it will not be very noticeable, but on the light tissues the hem will stand “stake”.It’s better to do this: singe a cut section of a pants tape to singe it and sew a lap.

Important! The band for trousers is usually synthetic, so it melts well.

• When adjusting the tape, try to precisely align its edge with the hem line. The top stitch must be sewn exactly 0.1 m from the edge of the tape so that the tape looks a little in the finished product. This is done in order to protect the pants from rubbing along the seam of the hem.
• The color of the tape is best chosen for the color of the pants.
• When adjusting the tape, try not to pull it very hard and make sure that neither the fabric nor the tape sits under the foot.

Important! It is advisable to simultaneously tension both the fabric and the tape, but do not pull too much, otherwise your needle may break.

• Buy tight weave pants. It is a bit more expensive, but over time, “shaggy” areas will not appear on it.

Important! It is possible to hem trousers on a typewriter with a hidden seam. To do this, you need a special foot for a blind seam.

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Hem jeans

There should not be any difficulties with jeans, it is very easy to hem them. In this case, the leg is tucked in two turns to a width of 1.5 cm and sewn with a straight line. In order that it does not differ in appearance from the factory, you just need to pick up the threads by color.

Important! It is not necessary to take a special thread for jeans, it is not possible to work with it on every machine, many do it simply: make a double seam with an ordinary thread of a suitable color.

It also happens that the pants have an original design and it is necessary to preserve the factory decorative seam in order to preserve the model features of the product. Then you need to consider the option of properly hemming the pants while maintaining the factory edge. For this:

1. First you need to determine the desired length of the trousers and put a mark.
2. Then they measure the factory edge, transfer the mark to the desired distance.
3. Next, the trouser leg is folded so as to combine the offset line and the base of the factory edge, then make a line on a sewing machine.
4. The resulting excess part is cut off and tipped with a zigzag or overlock.
5. The lapel is attached to the trouser leg with adhesive tape and an iron.
6. At the end, a line is laid along the very edge of the combination of the leg and the factory design of the bottom of the pants.

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Now we have completely dealt with such a seemingly simple question as how to hem pants with our own hands. Do everything as described above, and then the problem of properly fitting things to your height without paying the services of masters from the studio will cease to exist for you.