Next, mark the hem on one leg, making it about a 1/4″ off the floor, or shorter if they like. You can use chalk if you’d like, but if you use pins, be sure to put them in parallel to the floor. Mark each pant leg at the 12″ mark on a ruler. It’s important that they don’t look down at you to see what you’re doing or they won’t be marked correctly. Have the person who is begging and pleading with you to have their jeans hemmed put them on and and stand facing away from you. Instead, put them on and walk around or sit down in them so you’ll have them hemmed where they’ll actually sit when you wear them out. Second, don’t pull them down so that they’re straight on your legs if they’re really tight and will gather behind your knees when you walk. They’re either going to be long or short, so buy a second pair. If you want to wear a pair of jeans with both flats and heels, too bad.
One of the keys to making sure your hems will be long (or short) enough is to wear the right shoes with them and take a look at the fit. I did a few hundred of this type of jean hem in my last job doing alterations. To fix that, you do what’s called a “tricky hem”, where you put the original fancy hem back on your jeans.
It’s annoying to say the least, but cutting off your jeans and turning them under gives them the “oh-look-I’m-vertically-challenged-and-my-mom-hemmed-these” look. I’ve walked on the back of countless pairs of mine, so that it looks like something took a huge bite off of the back of my pant leg. At one point or another, we’ve all needed one basic thing- to have our jeans hemmed.
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