What’s an “Original” Hem?
Last week after buying a pair of jeans I decided that puddling on the floor just wouldn’t cut it. I took the jeans to the dry cleaners to get a hem put in. The gentleman asked me if I wanted the “original hem” put back in. Of course I said “yes”.
An original hem is the same look that is on the denim as when you purchased it. Of course I wanted “original hem”. I picked them up 4 days later happy to wear my now hemmed jeans just skimming the floor.
While wearing them the next day, I crossed my legs only to find out their definition of “original hem” did NOT mean taking the old thread out but taking a “tuck” in the hem. I paid $15 dollars for someone to put a “tuck” in my jeans??? I don’t think so.
Needless to say, I went back to the dry cleaners to ask for my money back.
He began to argue with me that this is what the “industry” calls an original hem. Let me tell you, that may be what the dry cleaning industry calls an original hem, but true alterations experts DO NOT consider a fold and a tuck original hem.
Lesson learned, even hemming (which you would think would be a simple request) needs to be done by a qualified alterations person.
“Look Good, Feel Great and Have FUN Doing IT!”
November 12th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Great blog! I can sense your frustrations with the way you bolded and italicized words and I think that is great! Sounds like you turned an everyday chore into a cute blog. Way to go!
(PS- I’m from the Blog Class)
November 13th, 2009 at 3:21 am
My dry cleaners charges just as much to just iron my blouse as to dry-clean AND iron it. It makes me want to have a wardrobe made solely of polyurathane. I think dry-cleaners is probably what pushed Catwoman over the edge.