How to Slim Down Dress Pants

Oversized pants definitely have a space in my closet, but nothing beats a properly slimmed pair of pants. When it coming to tapering your dress pants it couldn't be easier to accomplish this alteration for yourself, for a friend, or for clients. If anything in this video needs more Elaboration let me know on any of my social channels!

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[benalze]

Perfect, thank you very much!
Update: Altered my pants for the first time and they came out pretty nice. I love when clothes fit how they should. Thank you for showing how it works :)
Next step for me: Altering a shirt, shortening those sleeves.

[creationsbylorraine]

Your videos are great. My husband is 95 and I find that I still want him to look nice IF we venture outside of the home. All of his suits are really large on him now. Your videos helps me to do better with men's clothing, only his clothing. I'm a seamstress of long ago. I use to deal with adult clothing but not any more. Just sticking to Novelty items for my Grand Daughter. Thanks again for your easy to follow videos they are so, so easy to follow. You make every alteration look soooo easy. Lorraine Washington - Handmade Creations by Lorraine.

[tanjowil]

Most helpful, thank you. I managed to follow the steps to take in my 2y old grandson white dress pants for an upcoming wedding in 3wks. The steps were easy to follow but working with 100% polyester fabric was a pain, but I got the job done well in the end, big thank you from Brisbane Australia 🌻

[anisazada]

Very helpful. Thank you very much for excellent and clear presentation 👏

[katepowlus]

super helpful video for tapering my husbands dress pants from Goodwill!

[shushuyu]

wow looks so simple. im definitely going to try this with my next pair just for fun. BTW would you be willing to make a how to video for attaching a zip hood to a wool jacket? i've been eyeing this wool jacket for a while but i want to attach a hood with zippers to it. zip on, zip off. just to be more versatile but i have no idea how to start it. maybe this is something on your radar in the future?

[piccolobella]

Hi Louis ! I'm a new sub, just found you a couple weeks ago. Thoroughly enjoy your vids; lots of great info that is actually useable(!!). My grandpa was a tailor in NYC in the 30 - 40's; used to work on Lady Bird Johnson's gowns, grandma said. You know, these Sicilian old school tailors...mad skills! I'd love to know what fabric your jacket is made of? It's a perfect choice for that style, I think. The fit & workmanship is impeccable, btw...translates beautifully across the screen. Well, my dear, I will continue watching you & growing in my skills. Thx for making these vids. God bless you & yours.

[AneeshMistry]

Your content is brilliant! Such a great tutorial thank you!!

[michellecaesar-jeffrey]

Excellent instructional video. Thank you soo much.

[adamnarat]

These videos are amazing. I'm enjoying learning and sewing so much. Say, is there any chance you might be able to do a crotch gusset video?
Thanks

[SuperNeo]

Great vid. Are you against taking in from inside seams as opposed to outside seams?

[rovpiss]

Fantastic video as usual.
I am not sure if you take requests but I would love to see a video of you removing/decreasing the amount of shoulder padding in a jacket and putting it back together.

[ricardoandresgonzalez]

Amazing tutorial! Does the same process apply to denim??

[gracielamarquez]

Great video. I saw that you pressed open the seams, did you just leave them that way? Did you cut them? Would you use a serger?

[Limitlesssewing]

Nice project. thanks for sharing this useful video.

[limorbeautified]

So. Doing this for my own woman pants hope it works out!

[rdelacruz]

Amazing demo. Thank you. Maybe you could help me how to shorten tapered trouser. There’s many on how to slim/tapered jeans/pants that it’s saturated on Youtube and none yet did how to shorten tapered trousers yet. It’s difficult to shorten tapered trouser and it’s common to find that the new hem allowance has a shorter circumference than the pant leg it needs to be sown to. If the trousers are significantly tapered, you’ll need more than easing to prevent puckers along the stitching line. Looking forward to your demo.

[frankjoseph_]

Very helpful. I am guessing you do the same for the rear end and crotch? I have a pair of dress pants that Fit perfect that I am using as a ‘go by’

[SheldonSFCA]

Great information. How would you taper a tux pant with the satin ribbon?

[kwamenacann]

You've helped me do my alterations