I know I've left it late but I wondered if anyone could answer a question I have about boys school trousers from Marks and Spencer's.
My son will be 6 in September and will be wearing age 6-7 clothes. Every time he gets new bottoms in the next size up they are always a bit too long for a few months.
With his school trousers we get them temporarily shortened by a professional tailor so they are the right length for September, then we remove the temporary hem when we need to. However last year we found that towards the end of the academic year the trousers started to get a touch too short.
Anyway this year I've found trousers in M&S that say they have an adjustable hem, so the trousers can be lengthened a further 3cm. This would be ideal and hopefully solve the problem of them being too short towards the end of the school year.
However they will still need to be shortened now so they are not too long. My question is would trousers that already have an adjustable hem be professionally temporarily shortened? Then made back to full length by removing the temporary stitch done by the tailor when we need to? Then adding the additional 3cm further down the line?
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M&S School Trousers
happymummy12345 · 21/08/2021 02:00
It's my Son's first year at primary school and I have bought the trousers with the extra hem. I also need to have them take up professionally. Honestly, I'm not sure why I bothered because If we ever get to the stage that he outgrown the trousers before taking out the knees It will be a huge achievement 
Oh. I didn't mean professionally. Well she's not yet. 
I'm lucky to have a university daughter who's studying fashion and has a sewing machine. 
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