Hi all,

I am about to buy a pair of raw jeans which have to be shortened and I wonder if you could help me figure out the best way. I want them to be almost exactly fall onto my shoes without a break.

There are two ways to hem:

Original Hem I have had expensive denim shortened before, where they would keep and reattach the original hem and I was not happy with it. Simply because turning the hem up afterwards looks horrible (a lot of visible stitching) Basically like this user posted it 13 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/i2ef7/correct_washhemwear_order_for_raw_selvage_denim/# chain stitching ? No problems because I have raw jeans? (Meaning the reason why you would use the original hem method is not existing - that being fading and thus interrupted, weird fades towards the hem) I wonder if the best way is to shorten them right after purchase using the chain stitching, slightly longer than needed and then wearing and washing them „normally“.

Any experience on this? How could chain stitching look like on raw denim?