Hemming

Spider Canada hemming comes up most on sweatpants, the piece people most often want shortened, and on a printed leg that decision is not only about length. Read this before taking anything to a tailor, because a hem cannot be put back.

What Shortening Does to a Print

The Ponk bottoms carry lettering down the leg, and the drawing is spaced for the full length. Take a few centimeters off the bottom and the lettering still reads. Take considerably more and the balance of the leg changes, because the print was never centered on a shorter line.

The Open Hem Complicates It

Most pairs here leave the hem open and hold their width to the floor, so cutting higher up the leg means cutting at a wider point and the finished opening reads wider still. The is the exception, gathering into a cuff that a tailor has to rebuild rather than simply fold.

Check the Size Before Any Spider Canada Hemming

Most of the time the length is right, and the size is not. A pair that is too long is often one size too large everywhere else as well, and changing the size fixes the hem for free. Compare the measurements against a pair you already wear before altering anything. The numbers are on the product page and worth checking first. Each pair lists its inseam flat by size, and a step between sizes moves the leg by about an inch, so the pair that feels two inches long is often one size out rather than in need of a tailor. Where the hem should land is a matter of taste, but the open cuts here are drawn to break once on the shoe; anything above the ankle bone starts to read as a different garment. If the waist already fits and only the length is wrong, that is the one case where shortening is the right answer.

Where a Leg Can Be Shortened Without Touching the Drawing

Measure before anything is cut. Take the inseam of a pair you already wear at the length you want, and compare it with the garment figures in the size guide; the difference is what actually needs to come off, and it is usually less than people assume once the hem sits at the ankle rather than on the shoe.

Which pair you are shortening matters as much as how much. The quiet bottoms on this rail carry no lettering down the leg, so they can be taken up and re-hemmed without the drawing ever entering the decision. Anything with type running the length of the leg is the opposite case, and the honest answer there is often a different size rather than a shorter hem.

Keeping the Finish

The original hem on 380 GSM terry is wide and weighted, and a thin replacement hem changes how the leg falls. Ask whoever does the work to keep the depth. The full. sweatpants range lists its own measurements pair by pair.

When Hemming Helps

The sweatpants are cut for a straight or slightly stacked break, so a taller wearer gets the intended line and a shorter one may find the leg pools at the ankle. That is what hemming fixes. Measure your inseam against the figure listed on the pair before deciding, because a straight leg can lose its shape if too much is taken off the bottom. A cuffed pair is better left alone, since shortening it removes the cuff that gives the hem its weight. The full range with each inseam listed sits on. Spider Canada.

Keeping the Original Line

If you do hem a pair, ask for the original hem depth to be kept rather than a thin turn-up, so the leg still falls the way it was cut to. Dry the pair flat first; denim-weight fleece can shift a centimetre once it is washed.