Garments, such as pants, skirts, and shirt sleeves, are generally adjusted by stitching or cutting. Adjusting hems on pant legs, for example, requires manual alteration of the garment by cutting the stitches, unfolding the cuff, resetting the cuff to a desired length, and re-stitching the hem. Traditional manual stitching operations are time consuming and prone to errors. Moreover, alterations of garments as described above are permanent unless the garment is altered again.
Unfortunately, such permanent alterations do not address the many different contexts in which a garment may be worn. For instance, trousers or slacks may be worn with different types of shoes (e.g., high heels, flats, boots, sneakers, etc.). The particular shoe to be worn will, in turn, dictate the desired length of the trousers or slacks. For example, the length of a pair of trousers or slacks will need to be longer for a shoe with high heels than for a flat shoe with little or no heel. A user may have to have the trousers or slacks hemmed by a tailor to the desired length dictated by the particular type of shoe the user intends to wear with the garment. That length, however, may not correspond to the length dictated by a different type of shoe.
There have been previous attempts at facilitating garment hem adjustments, which generally included systems embedded in the garment. Some of these attempts were not aesthetically pleasing and/or were difficult to use, while others were uncomfortable for the person wearing the garment.
It is, therefore, desirable to have a system for readily adjusting the length of a garment that is efficient, aesthetically pleasing, and comfortable to wear.