Advice needed - taking up trousers with curved hems

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Hi, I would love some advice please, I have bought some new trousers which i love but they are three inches too long.

I am a reasonable novice sewer and have used machine to make curtains and cushions and shockingly wonky roman blinds

The trouser hems are curved. (They pool beautifully tho they are only cotton). I have only ever done a turn up hem before but this won't work here.

The trousers are not really hemmed at the mo - they have stitching on the end to stop them fraying if that makes sense. I think it's overlocking? So no turn up, the stitches seem to 'seal' the fabric.

I think I have an overlocking foot on my sewing machine. Please be honest - is it easy to master and am I likely to get a decent edge in this way? Or has anyone got any better ideas as to how i can lose the length?

Thank you, grateful for any help!!

Can you post a picture? I suspect that the finish on the hem will have been achieved using an overlock machine using at least 3 threads (if it is what I am thinking) so probably the 'overlock' setting on your machine won't do the same thing.

It's possible that you could take them up by hand? just catching a thread as your stitch so that the sewing doesn't show on the right side...or pay to have them taken up which really shouldn't cost too much.

Take them to a seamstress! It costs about £5 to have trousers taken up although these might cost a little more as it sounds more imvolved.

I'm a passable sewist but mist of my trousers I get taken up professionally as it's just so much easier than me messimg about.