<p>I’m not sure who you think will be looking at the bottom of your son’s pants? I wouldn’t worry about any coloring/lines if you have to take the pants up or down. You can hem a pair of pants in, like, 10 minutes, right? (And I also don’t know about the ironing. The only things I iron at my house are my own linen pieces. The kids’ clothes are folded as they come out of the dryer and are fine like that.)</p>
<p>(P.S. Most of my kids’ clothes come from eBay. Great stuff at fabulous prices.)</p>
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<p>Dockers offer “no iron” pants. If you get them out of the dryer at the right time and hang them by the hem/cuff they may “pass muster” without ironing.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to show you the different styes. The clamp style means his closet has to have a rod high enough up to allow the entire pant to hang without touching the floor.</p>
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<p>I don’t know about hemming vs. taping, but I do know you shouldn’t call a 13 year old boy “Mr. Cutie Pants.” ;)</p>
<p>Not to his face, GA2012Mom!!</p>
<p>Thanks for all the tips. Most grateful! It will be a miracle if the boy manages to make it to school next month. Girls were so much easier.</p>
<p>Both of my girls were dancers and they learned to sew their pointe shoes at very early age. Maybe the son could learn how to hem his own pants. H is very good at hemming his own pants, as I am with mine.</p>
<p>I don’t know many 13 y.o. Boys who care if a line shows when the pants are let down. If they are blue jeans, I use permanent marker in blue and black and dot over the whitish line.</p>
<p>I don’t remember hemming my son’s pants because I kept having to get new ones during those years, 12-18. Not only did he grow but he got thin and fat; thin and fat. Then it slowed the upward growth, but didn’t stop…until about 24. The outward growth stopped when he got married. He went from being big to being svelt. I stopped having anything to do with it, after 18.</p>
<p>It is thus far not clear to me whether or how much my son actually cares about any of this.</p>
<p>Between all of the relatives giving him ties for his graduation and my over-indulgence, he now has over 30 ties, of which he has picked out exactly one.</p>
<p>Quite the stunning array of purples, blues, oranges and patterns by Jerry Garcia. (They can only wear pastel colored shirts with coordinating ties.)</p>
<p>I have 3 sons. My youngest, now a junior, has just about finished his growing phase. Can’t tell you how many hems I’ve sewn over the years. Just do it by hand. It’s easy–only takes a few minutes. Don’t worry about the stitch and wear lines. Seriously–who’s looking? All of the other boys are in the same boat now (or have just been/will be soon).</p>
<p>okay–with growing boy experience…I took a deep breath…longer dress pants can be hemmed up but don’t do ANY lasting deep creases with an iron on the hem. Tacking and a mere swipe with an iron is sufficient because next week you’ll be letting them out again and at some point it’ll be the perfect size!. Literally. Use tape for hemming if it’s a long time between wearings. The biggest problem is realizing how fast they are growing!</p>
<p>Oh man, just started reading all these answers for real! Too funny! Honestly ,the only ones who care how the bottom of their son’s pants look is the mom. Sons just want pants to wear and don’t care how they got there. as long as they didn’t have to do the work…</p>
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Exactly. That’s why I’m asking here. I’m not sure exactly how far the Precious Baby King will go in humoring me on this and my husband couldn’t possibly care less.</p>
<p>You don’t need an iron. But if you insist on getting one, get a Rowenta. Anything else is a waste of your money.</p>
<p>They make Dockers which do NOT ever need to be ironed. Seriously. They also make shirts that do not need to be ironed. </p>
<p>Re: sizes…I had a teen guy in my house at one time. We bought two pairs of slacks to start the year…and two more in January. Sometimes we had to get them again in March. Some years were better than others in terms of needing new slacks. </p>
<p>If you have gotten slacks that are too long, perhaps your dry cleaner has a tailor who will hem them. I know our did, and we occasionally used them. We found it easier to just buy slacks that were only a tad too long and didn’t NEED to be hemmed. Kid grew into them, then wore them a tad longer…then we just bought a couple more pairs in the next size.</p>
<p>Not a crisis.</p>
<p>I agree that you should just hand hem–a few, quick tacking stitches to keep the pants leg from dragging on the ground and NOT use the iron at all unless you absolutely have to to minimize the crease if you plan to take out the hem later.</p>
<p>Buy as few pants as possible–possibly only two or three pair, so that you won’t be so irritated having to purchase new ones as he outgrows the slacks is a good idea. You can even purchase his pants from thrift shop, which is where we got a lot of our kids clothes when they were growing like weeds (even buying the next size or two when we saw them at great prices).</p>
<p>WalMart has great prices on boys khaki’s, if he’s still wearing boys sizes. Selection & sizing is limited, but their prices are among the lowest I’ve found.</p>