How To Lengthen Pants

There is no way to lengthen the rise of pants unless you add a piece of fabric.

How to lengthen pants. Hold your jeans tightly with one hand at the waistband side and one hand at the end-of-the-leg hemmed side 3. To make it easier and so that I dont lose part of the pattern I join the pieces with a piece of tissue paper. I have been doing this method for years and it has never failed me but i am bad at tutorials so i hope it was easy to.

A cut is to be made between the lines then the pieces adjusted according to the measurement the garment will need to be lengthened. The surged edge will be tucked under and fused to make the hem of the pants. When you dont have enough hem to let down you can lengthen your pants by adding a fabric cuff to the bottom.

Add More Fabric Mid-Leg. Of course you would have to put in a new zipper too. If your pants are just a little too short to wear with your best combat boots heres how to alter them.

Fold your jeans in half 2. The original hem is a 1 inch double fold hem which means I can lengthen it about 1 inch. Then measure the exact width of the bottom of your pants.

Use a seam ripper to open up the original hem. For pants I like to add 2 to the length. Pin in place ensuring that the folded edge of the cuff extends about 05 cm 14 past the seam joining the cuff to the pants.

This is a fun and stylish option and can work for jeans or for dress pants. Have a partner pin the pants to the desired length. You will want to be sure the edges line up with the pencil markings you made on the pants.