Torn jeans have been in fashion for a long time. But there is one problem – when you wear jeans for a long time the holes become sloppy. Of course, there are completely torn pants which look great and the holes on them don’t spoil the whole look, on the contrary, they make it better. But what if stylish holes became sloppy? There are two options: continue to wear them and pretend that they were “born” so full of holes or, using our advice, make your clothes look beautiful.
We used to tell you how to turn your ordinary jeans into the torn ones. Now, using the torn shorts as an example, we’ll show you how to bring the holes back”to life” if they began to look sloppy.
Tools
We will need the jeans to work with where the holes need to be broght back “to life” (in our case – the shorts), scissors, tweezers, jeans (denim fabric), thread (it must match the jeans color), needle.
Make a patch
Make two cuts horizontally on your old jeans: at the top and at the bottom. They should be straight and correspond to the height and width of the hole on the shorts.
Carefully try to extract vertically one thread after another with the help of the tweezers.
Then make the existing horizontal cuts look 1-2 cm longer with the helpof the scissors and cut this piece.
You should get a patch as it’s shown in the photo.
Final stage
Take your favorite shorts where the holes look sloppy. The patch, which has just been cut out of your old jeans, is placed under the hole in the shorts. Stretch it on the sides to make the patch bands be in a tight (not too much). The patch can be fixed with the help of the pins. Sew the patch to the shorts using a thread of a needed color with the help of little stitches; they must be hardly seen.
Sew the edges of the patch, not the bands.
Denim shorts look like the new ones as if you’ve just bought them.
Result
Shorts before:
After:
Useful tips
- Choose the old jeans of a similar color. If your jeans are white and the old ones are darker, the bands can be darker. But if the color difference is little, they can be used. They will be the same color after washing.
- It’s better to use old stretch jeans. Their bands are more elastic. It’s good if the holes are located on knees and stretch when you walk. Then they won’t tear.
- It’s good to sew the patch using the threads for embroidery. They are thin and completely invisible on jeans (if your jeans are light). It’s better to do small stitches imitating the stitches on the jeans.
- Threads which were torn initially on jeans, must be cut if necessary.
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