How To Hem Jeans — Original Hem & Euro Hem (Video)
Steven and Chris
An original hem is THE way to hem your jeans properly. It keeps the store-bought distressed hem of your jeans in tact, and it doesn’t look like you’ve done a home-sewing hack on your pants. (Hello Grade 6 flashbacks when my mom used to do a topstitch hem on my cords. OUCH!)
Some people call this hem a Euro hem, but no matter what you call it, it looks great and it’s easy to do! I showed Steven and Chris how to hem jeans with an original hem.
Watch here…
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Denise Wild:
So you’ve bought a pair a pants, you’re going out tonight–
Host, Chris Hyndman:
Yep.
Denise:
—and your pants are too long; you have to hem them, you don’t have time to go to the tailor’s.
Chris:
Yep.
Host, Steven Sabados:
Perfect.
Denise:
So I’m going to show you how to do what’s called an original hem — it’s sometimes referred to as a Euro hem, and it preserves this destressed edge of your jeans.
Chris:
Okay.
Denise:
That’s the one you want to keep so it doesn’t look like you hemmed your jeans.
Chris:
Yeah.
Steven:
Yeah, because nothings worse than just you– you hemmed them under and you get that little–
Denise:
Right.
Chris:
I just need to know who owns these jeans?
Denise:
Those are actually my husband’s jeans.
Chris:
I’m five-eleven. How tall is he? Because these go up to my boobs.
Denise:
He’s got very long legs.
Chris:
He’s got long legs. Wow! Okay.
Denise:
Ridiculously long legs.
Steven:
Wow. Okay.
Chris:
So I’m going to ruin his jeans. Okay. He looks like a big guy. Maybe I should use yours and you can do his.
Denise:
We can swap if you want.
Chris:
No, I’m okay. Okay, sorry.
Denise:
So what we’re going to do–
Chris:
Yeah.
Denise:
—is turn our– the hem of our jeans right sides together.
Chris:
Yeah.
Steven:
Yeah.
Denise:
We’re going to take off two inches off the bottom of these jeans. So we’re going to use our sewing gauge to actually measure up one inch from the fold–
Chris:
Okay.
Steven:
Oh, okay.
Denise:
—to the top of the– this groove in the hem right here.
Steven:
Right.
Chris:
Right.
Denise:
So you’re measuring one inch from the fold–
Steven:
Okay.
Chris:
Okay.
Denise:
—to that groove, and what that will give you is two inches, because you’ve got the one inch on this side –
Steven:
Yeah.
Denise:
—and the one inch on the other–
Steven:
On the other side.
Denise:
Exactly.
Chris:
Perfect. Okay.
Denise:
So–
Steven:
We need to then just pin that all the way around, right?
Denise:
Exactly.
Chris:
Yeah, okay.
Denise:
We’ve going to pin that in place. I’ve got the pins in front of us here.
Chris:
Yep.
Denise:
And the wrist pin cushions if you want too.
Steven:
Okay.
Denise:
Because I know, Christopher, you loved the wrist–
Chris:
Oh, where’s my watch? I loved that one. Where is it?
Denise:
It’s right here.
Chris:
There I got it. Right here. And it says “love” on it.
Steven:
Okay, so and um, before–
Denise:
So we’re going to measure all the way around one inch, around here–
Chris:
Okay.
Denise:
—and then we’re going to sew it in place.
Steven:
Okay.
Chris:
Alright, sweetheart, we have thirty seconds left. So-
Denise:
So I have some–
Chris:
Can we do this in thirty–
Denise:
—that are already pinned.
Chris:
Can we do this in thirty seconds?
Denise:
Absolutely.
Chris:
Okay, let’s motor.
Denise:
So we take this off the extensions.
Chris:
I’ve got my watch on. I’m timing you.
Denise:
Okay.
Steven:
So where do we sew it from? That’s important.
Denise:
We’re going to sew about two millimeters away from that groove–
Chris:
Okay.
Denise:
—or even a quarter– a sixteenth of an inch.
Steven:
Okay.
Denise:
And you’re just going all the way around; taking out your pins as you go.
Steven:
Okay.
Denise:
So just doing this straight stitch.
Chris:
Yeah.
Denise:
And don’t forget your back stitch and then just go around.
Chris:
And then just shhhh. Fire around. Okay.
Steven:
So let’s just pop that out and let’s see quickly how that’s going to kind of look–
Denise:
You bet.
Steven:
—so we can see before we have to run to break.
Denise:
So once you’ve got it all the way around–
Chris:
Yep.
Denise:
—when you flip that over–
Chris:
Oh, you’ve got a perfect hem.
Denise:
You’ve got a beautiful finish.
Chris:
And you’ve got that nice finished look.
Denise:
Yeah.
Chris:
Awesome job!
Steven:
That’s amazing.
Denise:
Yes.
Steven:
All the instructions will be on the website as well–
Denise:
Yes.
Steven:
But this is a classic quick fix. That’s brilliant.
Chris:
And I’m going to take my watch home with me. We’re out of time. I can’t believe it. Thanks so much for being here.
Denise:
Thank you for having me.
Steven:
Thank you, Denise.
Chris:
Nice job.
Steven:
Everybody, we have to take a quick break. When we come right back, we’re going to find out which oil will help you lose weight.
Chris:
Nice.
Chris:
Thanks so much.
Steven:
Thanks so much!
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