Save me from the short tax!
September 7, 2014 6:11 PM Subscribe
Need new pants with a short inseam. Don't want to pay for hemming.
So I've been slowly but surely shedding the weight I gained post-divorce (yay fish, kale and excercise!), and all of the pants I seem to have saved in my current size are slightly ratty jeans. I want to get some nicer pants that fit, but at 5'5", with a long torso, nothing fits me off the rack. Even Gap's 28 inseam jeans need hemming on me.
Does anyone know of clothing stores in the Boston area that offer free hemming? Prana and Kuhl pants fit me well (inseam aside), and I like how they look, but I've mostly bought them online or at EMS. If I find them on sale, I'll probably get some and take them to my local tailor for hemming, but I'd love to find somewhere that sells comparable pants and hems for free.
So I've been slowly but surely shedding the weight I gained post-divorce (yay fish, kale and excercise!), and all of the pants I seem to have saved in my current size are slightly ratty jeans. I want to get some nicer pants that fit, but at 5'5", with a long torso, nothing fits me off the rack. Even Gap's 28 inseam jeans need hemming on me.
Does anyone know of clothing stores in the Boston area that offer free hemming? Prana and Kuhl pants fit me well (inseam aside), and I like how they look, but I've mostly bought them online or at EMS. If I find them on sale, I'll probably get some and take them to my local tailor for hemming, but I'd love to find somewhere that sells comparable pants and hems for free.
Nordstroms offers free hemming of full priced pants.
posted by tealcake at 6:38 PM on September 7, 2014
posted by tealcake at 6:38 PM on September 7, 2014
Any place that sells "unfinished" trousers will hem for free. J Press will definitely hem for free, and I believe Brooks Brothers will as well.
It doesn't sound like you're looking for dress trousers, but in my experience the only places that will actually hem pants without charge are the ones that sell them with the expectation that the pants will be hemmed; that restricts you a bit to the dressier styles that come unhemmed at the store. Uniqlo is the only exception to that I can think of - all of their pants come in a 36" inseam and they will hem them for free. However, they rely on you to mark where you want them hemmed too - the sales people will not help (or they didn't help me, anyway).
posted by backseatpilot at 7:39 PM on September 7, 2014
It doesn't sound like you're looking for dress trousers, but in my experience the only places that will actually hem pants without charge are the ones that sell them with the expectation that the pants will be hemmed; that restricts you a bit to the dressier styles that come unhemmed at the store. Uniqlo is the only exception to that I can think of - all of their pants come in a 36" inseam and they will hem them for free. However, they rely on you to mark where you want them hemmed too - the sales people will not help (or they didn't help me, anyway).
posted by backseatpilot at 7:39 PM on September 7, 2014
Land's End hems many of their pants to order. You can try them on at Sears stores that carry their line to see if they fit in the waist and hips.
posted by momus_window at 8:02 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by momus_window at 8:02 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
If you have a steam iron, hemming by hand with a simple blind stitch is really not hard.
posted by nicwolff at 10:01 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by nicwolff at 10:01 PM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]
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posted by kinddieserzeit at 6:14 PM on September 7, 2014