topic Re: Alterations Cost For Hemming Pants in Fashion

Alterations Cost For Hemming Pants

ECBG — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:14:56 GMT

I can sew and have designed clothing.

I detest clothing repair as well as hemming; working, I really DON'T have time!

Denim is hard to hem if you don't! UGH!

I found an alterations person with 4 1/2 stars only 1 1/2 miles out of my way but has a parking lot where I can finally get out! AND $10.00 less! I can't believe it!

I Went from $25 to $10 if I heard right! Anyway, it will be less than what I have been charged!!!

Yeah!!!

What is the cost to hem a pair of ladies pants where you live please???

Re: Alterations Cost For Hemming Pants

Icegoddess — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:25:45 GMT

I can't remember, but $10 or $15 sounds about right. But, it might've been as much as $20.

I, too, can sew, but I despise doing hems or alterations on myself. It's really too difficult to get it right trying to pin things on yourself unless you have someone else to do it for you.

Jeans are one of those things that you can tell when they have been hemmed unless they use the right thread and a double needle.

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Sooner — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:31:44 GMT

I don't have to have it done because I shop at Talbots! Thank goodness for them!

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PickyPicky3 — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:56:52 GMT

I don't buy pants with an inseam I can't use. There are plenty of pants to choose from.

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ECBG — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:58:38 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I don't have to have it done because I shop at Talbots! Thank goodness for them!

@Sooner

As do I. I still have to have 2 inches taken off! If petite, I still have to have them hemmed!!!

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cody2 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:18:50 GMT

I pay $15 here in California. I am between a regular and a tall and I can't stand high water pants. My right leg is also shorter then my left. So sometimes I just have to have one leg shortened. And no ankle length for me either. So I buy the talls and have them shortened about an inch usually. Sometimes less.

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ALRATIBA — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:54:32 GMT

I'll do woven fabrics myself.

For jeans - I occasionally cheat - I baste - use iron-on hem facing and then remove the basting.

Sometimes I'll just turn under and use decorative lapel pins to secure. (Looks jazzy!)

Knit fabrics - won't touch. The tailor at the nearby dry cleaner charged $16 last summer. Haven't bought anything in since last summer.

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Tinkrbl44 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 01:03:28 GMT

Usually varies, but normally between $10 to $20. How much fabric being taken up really doesn't matter.

It's my experience that hemming costs depend on both the fabric ..... as well as the zip code of the tailor you use.

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drizzellla — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 01:18:19 GMT

When I was working, I frequently had my clothes altered.

And I will say that $10.00 IS A BARGAIN! Go for it. I was paying $10 and more 25 years ago. In fact often the alterations were more than what I paid for the item.

Run! With all the items that you want altered. Before she find out the going rate for alterations.

A few months ago my husband took a down sleeping bag and asked how much to get the zipper back on track. They said at least $50.00.

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layla2450 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 01:27:29 GMT

Basic pants hem - $7.95.

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ECBG — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 01:48:54 GMT

@layla2450 wrote:
Basic pants hem - $7.95.

@layla2450

Not here now.

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rms1954 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:49:53 GMT

I hem my own clothing. I enjoy it. Family members and neighbors used to bring me their things to hem. That was as a teenager. They never paid me a thing. LOL.

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millieshops — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:49:07 GMT

@Sooner I had no idea Talbots offered that service- I know Nordstrom does although I believe only on full-price items.

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CalminHeart — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:25:48 GMT

I've been going to an independent tailor for hemming for 20-30 years. His work is great and prices are so low that I wonder how he makes it. The last time I was there, he said he's thinking of retiring in a couple of years and my heart sunk.

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SoCal Bred — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:59:21 GMT

I like my pants longer than ankle length, if there is enough hem to bring it down, the place I go to charges $10.00, although I haven't taken any pairs in awhile since retiring he might be charging a little more now just like everything else going up in price these days.

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Shanus — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:08:16 GMT

@ECBG Good for you. That's quite a savings.

I'm always looking for a good tailor and a better price since most of my pants need hemming. Ankle pants...YAY! They're the perfect full length for me, but I want ankle length, capris in regular size (not petite) do the trick.

When I do need hems, my cleaners has a good tailor who charges $15 for a hem. For jeans, I like the original hem removed, then shortened and that hem put back on the bottom...think they look more authentic. That costs $25. I usually try to get my jeans on sale to make up for that expense.

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ScrapHappy — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:49:51 GMT

I don't know about ladies pants but 7 years ago my daughter's school uniform skirts always had to be altered. The skirts cost about $30 or so. Alterations were at least $20. So glad don't have to do that anymore.

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SloopJohnB — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:03:28 GMT

@ECBG I sew, also. I don't know what the going rate is as I do all my own alterations. But it sounds like you found a good deal there!

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Sooner — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:49:13 GMT

@millieshops wrote:
@Sooner I had no idea Talbots offered that service- I know Nordstrom does although I believe only on full-price items.

@millieshops I don't have to have Talbots pants hemmed. I get petite sizes and they fit like they were made for me.

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shoptilyadropagain — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:58:45 GMT

I've never had a pair of pants hemmed in my life. I'm tall but don't really have an issue finding pants that are too short.