Shortened LOGO Top and Lisa Rinna pants

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

I have two LOGO tops from easily 6/7 years ago that were a bit too big and too long.*

I was going to donate them, but loved the colors. I don't want to spend the money for someone to shorten them and don't feel like hemming them myself .... so .... I decded to use the pinking shears** and just cut off a few inches and leave a zig-zag edge.

I took five inches off the first one ... and I'm wearing it over a big longer tank top. The other one - I think I'll just cut off 4". Fraying doesn't appear to be an issue .... yet!

It doesn't look too big now that it's shorter.

I also shortened Liza Rinna's pants with the pinking shears and I like them much better. There is no longer the "weight" of the hem and they hang really well now.

I plan on doing the same "operation" on all my Bob Mackie and SG wide leg pants. The weight of the hem was bothering me because of the way they moved when I walked.

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*.. (I gained some weight when I retired, and then lost it so some clothes are just a bit too big.)

** ... Got them at Amazon.

K9buddy · ‎03-09-2010

Pinking shears will limit the fraying but won’t eliminate it. Please wash the garments before you do any more.

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

@K9buddy wrote:
Pinking shears will limit the fraying but won’t eliminate it. Please wash the garments before you do any more.

@K9buddy

Thanks for that!

Andreatoo · ‎04-04-2014

@ALRATIBA

The embellished hem lines are in style now so why not right?!

Imaoldhippie · ‎06-10-2015

I hope you realize that cutting fabric with pinking shears will not keep the fabric from fraying. When the item is laundered it most likely with unravel a lot depending on the type of frabic it is.

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ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

@Imaoldhippie wrote:
I hope you realize that cutting fabric with pinking shears will not keep the fabric from fraying. When the item is laundered it most likely with unravel a lot depending on the type of frabic it is.

@Imaoldhippie

Yes, I'm well aware of that. I've sewn my own clothes since I was a teenager in the 1950s.

Actually, the goal is fraying. The clothes are really useless unless shortened, and if / when they fray - if they look okay - I'm winning. If they don't look okay - no loss since I was going to dispose of them anyway.

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ETA: Other than the LOGO tops - all the other items are poly microfiber knits ... just not sure if they can fray. The logo top is a cotton/span knit ... not woven. Knits fray differently than wovens.

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

@Andreatoo wrote:
@ALRATIBA
The embellished hem lines are in style now so why not right?!

@Andreatoo

Fraying is the goal.

DrakesMomma · ‎06-02-2010

@ALRATIBA - Run a line of stitching about half an inch to a full inch above your new hem. The fraying will stop at the stitching line.

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

@DrakesMomma wrote:
@ALRATIBA - Run a line of stitching about half an inch to a full inch above your new hem. The fraying will stop at the stitching line.

@DrakesMomma

They aren't woven fabrics. They are knits. I'm not sure that they will fray, and if so - how they will fray. What do I know - they won't fray like woven fabrics do.