Altering a pair of pants to shorten the rise is not much less work than making a new pair of pants.
Adding fabric onto the legs was fashionable for a few years, and I'm far from a fashionista, but I don't know that I'd do that now. 
I'm so glad that low rise jeans are staying in fashion for the time being. "Superlow" jeans are more like low, "low rise" are more like normal on me. I HATE wearing pants that come up over my ribcage.
Last edited by OakLeaf; 07-20-2010 at 12:05 PM.
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