how to alter pants
How to Alter Pants
Do you have oversized pants and want to learn how to alter pants? Read on...
- Take a pair of pants which fits you right to use it as a reference while resizing the baggy pants.
- Turn both the baggy and the good-fitting pants inside out.
- Keep the baggy pant on a clean floor surface and overlap the good fitting pant on it properly. Match the front and back of both pairs of pants properly.
- Now according to the alterations you want to make draw the marks on the pants.
- If you wish to reduce the length of the pants, then make a mark on the bottom of the baggy pant but make sure you always keep a seam allowance of 1 and a half inch.
- If the pants are loose at your calves and thighs, then you will have to consider marking the inner leg area too, but remember to give a seam allowance at this area of the pants too.
- If the crotch of the baggy pants is larger than the old pants that fit you right, then you might also want to make marks under the crotch area with the seam allowance. Make sure that the marks for the seam are an inch below the zipper area. As the zipper can't be altered and even if you try to alter the zipper it will be tedious and you might mess up the zipper completely.
- Now using scissors cut out the marked excess material out of the baggy pants.
- Using the sewing machine, start sewing the areas which have you cut with the scissors. Try on the pants and check if they fit perfectly.