Modern Pants

[HenriettaMaria]

North of the border they're breeks!

[BrendaP]

Defiitely 'darn sarf'  in Kent.

[suburban]

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Defiitely 'darn sarf'  in Kent.

Edit:  Hello, I've tried to post this three times - with 3 different attachments JPEGs - and no joy.  I hope you don't mind if I reply to you specifically - because the board might accept a "reply" and not a new post etc.  Here goes:

           Hello it's me again.  I've forgotten how to reply to the right person.  I remember it being a bit counterintuitive last time I was here. I'm not complaining though, I'm very thankful for any responses.

OK,  I've read the label of the pants - they're Chinos - I had took them to my brother's to try for size. They are 98% cotton and only 2 % "Stretch" .  The word "stretched" troubled me y'see.  So, they've seen better days - they're Practice Pants. The first picture I'll post is the original hem.  It is a short hem and the stitch appears to be a kind of running stitch.  Is it also a Top Stitch?  The second is a very crude hem stitch I did - just to see if I'd got the length right.  I had, but it could do with further shortening by half a centimetre.

So, I'm between sewing machines and I'd like to try and replicate the original hem.  So I'd be sewing by hand - some sort of running stitch (?) on a fabric with a very slight stretch quality to it. Any advice?

[SewRuthieSews]

The original looks like its been machine stitched.
If you don't have access to a sewing machine then don't use a hand running stitch like that (it won't ever look right), do some sort of invisible stitching on the inside.

[suburban]

The original looks like its been machine stitched.
If you don't have access to a sewing machine then don't use a hand running stitch like that (it won't ever look right), do some sort of invisible stitching on the inside.

Thanks, I'd worried about that.  I'd watched someone on YouTube promising, "How to hand sew like a machine " and I looked at her efforts at a hem and wasn't entirely sold on the idea.  Still, she was talking at the same time as stitching so I thought...well I won't be compromised and can go at my own pace.  I think you're right and some sort of invisible stitch is the way to go.  Trouble is, that "just pick up a few threads from the outside of the garment" seems a bit risky on a pair of jean-like pants.  Would it be a weak hem?  I know I said the chinos were only practice sewing - but I'd want to get it right for other trousers etc. 

I looked at the images I attached and I'm sorry they're such monster sized!  My bad. 

[Catllar]

Buy some iron-on hem tape. Problem solved!

[Kwaaked]

In hand sewing, the stitch that mimics a machine is the back stitch...but only on the top.  The back has overlapping stitches.  A machine does a lock stitch which is why they are similar on the front and back and can't be replicated by hand as far as I know.

You can do a blind hem on jeans and have them hold, same as any other pant (or trousers for those that don't like it).