Pants

[parasitegirl]

The difficult part about hemming jeans is not the actual sewing. It's my need to distress the hemmed edge until it doesn't scream "HEMMED!"

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[daphnep.livejournal.com]

It wears down pretty quickly...I just figured that out. I took in the seams of two pairs, and then a few weeks later looked at them and couldn't tell if they were the ones I'd sewn. Just wearing them and washing them had "erased" the crisp edges, in no time.

[parasitegirl.livejournal.com]

You're right. But there are some jeans that I do insist on slightly bleaching the edge on so they match the other lighter seams.

[arovd.livejournal.com]

omg you are brilliant! this is why i never hem my jeans... duh, it never occurred to me that i could make the hemmed edge match.

[divarenee.livejournal.com]

I've read somewhere about getting tailors to re-attach the original hemmed edge so it looks like they came that length, but I can't figure out how the seam from the re-attachment wouldn't show. Weird.