Hem Tape

anportiale — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:58:41 -0500

If you don't mind using an iron, they have this great stuff - hem tape. You just put it inbetween the fold & iron! It seriously takes only a minute. Although, I'll admit to masking tape in the past haha, and I'm a pro at hiding safety pins!

I wish I would have read this earlier

Joy Johnson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:22:00 -0500

I would have brought you fabric glue. One of the tricks I learned in Apparel Production -- and from Project Runway :)

-Joy

oh yes, the stapled hem

Skye — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:28:19 -0500

Works great on grey pants.

Agreed with the duct tape!

zchamu — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:56:30 -0500

You can even put it through the washer with duct tape on it and it comes back out intact. true story.

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Hemming a skirt, Elisa-style

Elisa Camahort — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:27:22 -0500

Since BlogHer is this week I have planned out my outfits scrupulously...does anyone else do that?

Anyway, today I pulled a new skirt out of the dry cleaning pastic to wear...as scrupulously planned. It's Calvin Klein, I got it on sale at Macy's, and I've worn it exactly once: At BlogHer Business last March.

Put it on to discover the hem is completely unraveling across the front! What to do?? Changing outfits just didn't seem an option. No, I had planned to wear this, and wear it I was going to do. So I went downstairs and grabbed some Scotch tape and taped that hem.

I'm classy like that.

Funny thing is when I tweeted this I got more @replies than I think I've ever gotten before. Seems lots fo women have had to do similar hacks in the absence of mad sewing skillz.

Some of their suggestions:

elleinthecity: @elisac I've been known to staple skirts. Heaven forbid I have to thread a needle and sew

JennaWoodul: @elisac I've been doing that since I was about 12 I think. Drove my mother crazy.

MaryTrigiani: @ElisaC You should try Hollywood tape. It's great for emergencies and holds better than scotch tape. PS: shame on that cleaner.

socalmom: @ElisaC I'm an old hand at Scotch taping hems. (5'2" -- too lazy to hand stitch)

hardaway: @elisac. I do that all the time. try duct tape

nominivan: @ElisaC you didn't use a stapler!!!?? :)

kalynskitchen: @ElisaC If I ever get there I have sewing stuff and will hem for you. (I'm former Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow and I can hem!)

lizhenry: @ElisaC I'll bring you duct tape, it works so much better for hems plus has a certain geeky aura to it

lauriewrites: @elisac Have done much worse clothing repair. Points for ingenuity.

Thanks for your support, tweeps!

BlogHer - Hemming a skirt, Elisa-style - Comments

Hem Tape

I wish I would have read this earlier

oh yes, the stapled hem

Agreed with the duct tape!

Hemming a skirt, Elisa-style