A new customer walks into our Cedar Rapids tailoring shop with a pair of jeans fresh off the rack, tags still attached. They have a classic problem: their new jeans are too long.

Since the beginning of mass manufacturing, customers have been finding new pants too long and ultimately need to either embrace the cuff-life, or visit the tailor.

The Merci’s Tailoring family is all too familiar with this problem. A majority of us are on the shorter end of the bell curve, and therefore can not ever find pants in our correct length; even petite sizes!

So with a sense of kinship, we happily measure and pin up the altered length for our customer and start to prepare their order. Once out of the dressing room, we ask, “What kind of hem would you like on your jeans today?”

Huh? What kind of hem? I don’t know… a shorter one?

So join us in today’s blog post where we go through those jean-hemming options, and how you can choose the hem for your next new pair, or currently cuffed pair, of jeans.