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Posted by Gerald & Donna McIntosh on September 19, 2008, 3:55 pm
Hi,
My 12-yr DD loves skinny-leg jeans..she has 3 pairs of flair/bootcut jeans
that we want to change to skinny leg...does boths seams need to be taken
out or just one..and how far up the leg....either way, it will save me some
money
as I won't have to go shopping with her for couple weeks! LOL
Thanks for any/all advise
Donna in S. Indiana
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Posted by BEI Design on September 19, 2008, 5:58 pm
Gerald & Donna McIntosh wrote:
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> My 12-yr DD loves skinny-leg jeans..she has 3 pairs of
> flair/bootcut jeans that we want to change to skinny
> leg...does boths seams need to be taken out or just
> one..
Yes, and equal amount should be removed from both the inside
and outside seam. Otherwise the pantslegs will twist when
worn.
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> and how far up the leg....
Determine how much you want to remove and divide by 2.
Start at the hem (which you have unpicked), and draw a
chalkline, using a yardstick, up to about the knee, or
wherever the line naturally intersects the original
stitching. You will need to clean finish (serge or zig-zag)
the raw edges of the new seam. Be sure you don't taper so
much that she cannot get her foot through the new hem.
Re-stitch the hem when you are happy with the alteration.
HTH,
Beverly
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Posted by BEI Design on September 19, 2008, 6:00 pm
BEI Design wrote:
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> Yes, and equal amount should be removed from both the
S/B "...an equal amount..."
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on September 19, 2008, 6:42 pm
BEI Design wrote:
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> Gerald & Donna McIntosh wrote:
>
>> My 12-yr DD loves skinny-leg jeans..she has 3 pairs of
>> flair/bootcut jeans that we want to change to skinny
>> leg...does boths seams need to be taken out or just
>> one..
>
> Yes, and equal amount should be removed from both the inside
> and outside seam. Otherwise the pantslegs will twist when
> worn.
>
>> and how far up the leg....
>
> Determine how much you want to remove and divide by 2.
> Start at the hem (which you have unpicked), and draw a
> chalkline, using a yardstick, up to about the knee, or
> wherever the line naturally intersects the original
> stitching. You will need to clean finish (serge or zig-zag)
> the raw edges of the new seam. Be sure you don't taper so
> much that she cannot get her foot through the new hem.
> Re-stitch the hem when you are happy with the alteration.
>
> HTH,
>
> Beverly
>
>
This brings to mind the craze in the early 1960s for very narrow (14
inch) bottom trousers. At that time I was in the RAF, in my late teens,
6 ft 4 ins tall and weighed less than 160 pounds. Narrow bottomed
trousers were that last thing that I really needed but they were
"fashionable"...
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
"To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and
wrong"
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on September 20, 2008, 8:29 am
Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
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> BEI Design wrote:
>> Gerald & Donna McIntosh wrote:
>>> My 12-yr DD loves skinny-leg jeans..she has 3 pairs of
>>> flair/bootcut jeans that we want to change to skinny
>>> leg...does boths seams need to be taken out or just
>>> one..
>> Yes, and equal amount should be removed from both the inside and
>> outside seam. Otherwise the pantslegs will twist when worn.
>>> and how far up the leg....
>> Determine how much you want to remove and divide by 2. Start at the
>> hem (which you have unpicked), and draw a chalkline, using a
>> yardstick, up to about the knee, or wherever the line naturally
>> intersects the original stitching. You will need to clean finish
>> (serge or zig-zag) the raw edges of the new seam. Be sure you don't
>> taper so much that she cannot get her foot through the new hem.
>> Re-stitch the hem when you are happy with the alteration.
>> HTH,
>> Beverly
>
> This brings to mind the craze in the early 1960s for very narrow (14
> inch) bottom trousers. At that time I was in the RAF, in my late teens,
> 6 ft 4 ins tall and weighed less than 160 pounds. Narrow bottomed
> trousers were that last thing that I really needed but they were
> "fashionable"...
I has visions of airfoce blue daddy longlegs... ;)
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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> flair/bootcut jeans that we want to change to skinny
> leg...does boths seams need to be taken out or just
> one..