Jeans Fix: reattach the original hem
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010I always hate the way jeans look when I get them hemmed — as if they were a pair of office khakis. It just never looks right. A piece of All-American Cool is suddenly Squaresville, USA.
One alternative is to actually reattach the original hem — with its distinctive stitching, thread color, and marks of distress intact. Here’s a pretty extensive forum thread about original/frankenhems.
I’d read about it be never tried it until a week ago. I was at my local tailor in Queens, and he asked me if I wanted to give it a shot with a new pair of jeans. They’re neither the best tailors nor jeans in the world, but: What do you think? I’m not so sure how well it turned out…
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