How To Hem Your Pants

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hey welcome to watchmojo.com this is
poorna i’m going to be showing you how
to cut the ends of your pants properly
now if you’re a woman and you like to
buy pants your average height or shorter
than average you probably know what I’m
talking about see pair of pants you love
try them on and they fit great around
the hips waist and even thighs but when
it comes down to the length it’s just
too long you don’t want to ruin the
style of it but you’re not sure how to
go about cutting it short I’m going to
be showing you how to do that for jeans
and dress pants both from the inside as
well as from the outside so we’re going
to start off with the jeans and how to
fold them over from the inside now
normally for jeans you need to cut off
to the six inches so this is how you do
it first of all these jeans need to be
got four inches so what you do is you
take your ruler make sure it’s marked at
four inches like so and then you draw a
line right next to four inch spot then
you go down halfway to the two inches
I’m mark another line now you do this
all the way around the circumference of
the jeans because you want to make sure
it’s equal all the way around obviously
you don’t want a longer and shorter one
side on the other now when you’re done
with that you’re going to fold the ends
just at the first line that you made
like so now it should meet the second
line that you did when you fold it over
but you’re going to fold it over one
more time
so once you get to this part all you
really have to do is double check make
sure it really is equal on all sides
because it can get fold it over a little
messed up if you don’t do it properly
then you take your needle simply pin it
down and just pin it down all the way
around as well then you just put into
your sewing machine and you make a line
at the bottom to make sure that it’s
sewn down and another line just on top
of it about half centimeter 21
centimeter above it and then voila you
turn your jeans back inside out and they
should be perfectly fine now if you want
to cut your jeans so that it folds over
from the outside the really cool thing
about it is that if you have a lot to
cut off like about six inches or so you
can really choose how much of the length
you want to keep on the outside I’ll
give you an example so over here we’ve
got a lot of extra material let’s just
say you want to fold it over yet about
six inches and I’m not measuring I’m
just giving you an example how high it
could be in length now if you had this
much you could keep it this way so you
have a thick length from the outside but
if you want it less than that because
you have the excess material you have
the choice to simply fold this over like
that and then sew it down so you can
really play around and choose how you
want to style your pants