Can You or Should You Hem Your Own Pants and Jeans?
Buying a pair of new pants or jeans for yourself, only to realize the length is just not right, is undoubtedly among the most frustrating experiences in life for most
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How to Hem Jeans
Savvy Sewists Use these Kinds of Threads for Hemming Jeans
You’ll need two kinds of thread to hem your jeans correctly. One is for construction. The other is for topstitching. Both threads can be polyester or cotton wrapped polyester fiber.
Construction thread is the kind
What Size Needle Should You Use to Hem Those Jeans?
You should choose the needle size according to the weight of the fabric you'll be sewing.
To hem lightweight stretchy jeans, for instance, a size 90/14 needle should work just fine. In contrast,
Why You Shouldn’t Hem Pants or Jeans Before You Do This
To get the best return on the investment of your time and money, you'll want to get the shrinkage out of that great-fitting pair of pants or jeans before they are hemmed.
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Where does the word ‘denim’ come from?
It's a simple derivative of a few words describing a kind of fabric that was made in a town in France. A serge fabric of Nimes, France.Check out this site for more about
Where does the word ‘jeans’ come from?
It's derived from two words describing a type of fabric that was made in Genoa, Italy called fustian.
Genoa in old French is Jannes, in modern French is Gênes. Check out this site for more
Designer Spotlight: Denim, Rock & Roll, and John Varvatos
In the book John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion, John gives us a window into his life experience with denim . . . so far.
Chapter 11 opens with “Denim is sexy." As