Pants hemming

 Did you ever had a pair of faded denim trousers, that were too long, and wished, you could shorten them, while keeping the faded edge?

Though I like to think, that with my 164 cm I am pretty average height, I often find myself with pants that are too long. 

And while I am generally in the camp that would gladly wear this:

However, when we are talking about MY trousers, things are somewhat different. 

I got a pair of soft, wide legged denim, with which simply turning up the hem would not work, it needed to be cut, but simply cutting it, would result... in a hemline that is... to clean, to new, I think. 

I dived into youtube, and come up with my own solution at the end.

Opened the hem's stitchline.

Cut off the excess (only left about 0,5 cm extra at the bottom). 

Then trimmed off the bottom hem, just about 0,5 cm from the original stitchline.

Turned out the leg, and sew the prepared edge to the wrong side, about 0,5 cm from the edge of teh pants and the edging as well.

Turned the edging around the cut edge, and pinned, carefully. 

From the right side I sew down the edging where the original stitchline was.

Ironed and steamed the new stitchline and edging. This is how it looks like from close up.

And this is it on me: