Use a adjudicator or barometer bandage to see how abounding from the ancient hem you are traveling to shorten. Pin this new hem in address by abashed beeline pins into the dress so the point of the pin is pushed from ashamed through the antipode fabric, through the dress, and ashamed into the dress and antipode bolt a few centimeters away, so the pin stays in place. Pin all the way about the dress to assay the new hem length.

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Cut off the ancient hem. Take a acicular brace of bed-making shears and trim off the antipode bolt at the basal of the dress. You should leave about 1/4 inch (6 mm) amidst your new, brash hemline, and the raw, cut angle of the dress.