So, the left hem on my new dress pants decided to come down a few days ago. I guess it just couldn’t hold on any longer, poor thing. Since the trailing hem was getting in the way of things, and since I’m not exactly adept with sewing needles, I stapled the hem back together again. Five staples later and it’s mostly fixed. I say “mostly” because the hem still tries to come down, and also because even though I obviously stapled my dress pants and thus subscribe more to the utilitarian mode of dress, I’m still an artist and want the nice, clean aesthetic look that only a seamstress can provide. And I’m kind of scared to go through metal detectors now. :P So, I’ll be getting them hemmed up all proper-like sometime soon. And in the meantime, if it falls down again, my stapler is loaded. ;)
(Hmm, I get the sense that I may have blogged about stapling my pants before. Searching… Ah, yes, I did, back in March 2007. I guess this makes me a serial stapler, huh.)
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Yay! You did post it. I was trying SO hard not to laugh during class when you told me you STAPLED your DRESS pants. Ha ha ha ha! Only you, Ben.
Surely the Internet could teach you how to hem – sewing is super easy.
Double-sided tape works great too!
Megan: Function over form? :P
Janssen: To my credit I did try to sew my hem back up once, and I’ve even tried patching the kneecap of another pair of pants, but in both cases the result was something akin to a hurricane relief zone. But you’re right, there’ve got to be tutorials all over the place (can we say Youtube?). That’ll be a new mini-project: turning Ben into a tailor. :)
dp: Ooh, I hadn’t thought of that — good call! (And more invisible. Staples are usually hard to see, but when the light glints off of them, they’re obvious.)