Q. One question I've never seen asked or addressed by stylists is what the perfect length for pants/jeans/slacks is, no matter what the trend (floods, capris, etc.) is. Would you tell me whereabouts on the foot or ankle they should rest?
-Long & Short of It
A. Pants always look better than capris or shorts. As for length, the longer length is more flattering. Pants should cover the tops of shoes or pumps with just the front of the shoe showing. Unfortunately, we all wear different heel heights, so when you have pants hemmed you need to figure out if you'll wear a heel or flats/sneakers with the pants. Generally, we wear our dress pants with heels and we succumb to flats and sneakers with our khakis and casual wear. Jeans are the trickiest since we wear them with everything from flip-flops to 4 inch heels. Choose your best looking dark pair for heels and your favorite all-around pair to wear with sneakers, flats and kitten heel heights, then hem them appropriately.
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