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Make Jeans Tighter

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tighten those jeans in 4 easy steps

Shopping for jeans is extremely frustrating. Finding a pair that perfectly accommodates your hips, waist, and leg length is next to impossible. And the thousand trips to a fitting room that has no locks don’t help the quest to find the ideal pair.

Because I’m short, I always have my jeans shortened at the mall. Yes, I could buy smaller, (hence, shorter) jeans, but my butt, hips, and waist have an aversion to size 24 jeans. Often, I end up buying a pair that’s perfect on the waist but baggy everywhere else. This is the case for the last three pairs I bought.

So I did some research on making jeans tighter. It seems that a hot wash and long drying time combo works perfectly. I have no access to a drier or washing machine. I turned to Lorelai (my sewing machine) for help.

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  1. Step 1

    Step 1

    Fit your jeans. Estimate how many inches tighter the legs should be.

  2. Step 2

    Step 2

    Turn jeans inside out. Sew the inseam, starting from one leg. If you need to make your jeans an inch tighter, sew the inseam a half inch from the edge.


  3. Step 3

    Step 3

    Sew all the way to the crotch and turn to finish the other inner leg. You may choose to stop at the crotch to see if your new pant leg is tight enough. Or too tight.

  4. Step 4

    Step 4

    DONE! Fit your jeans.

    NOTE: When you lay down your new jeans, you will notice some bunching on the crotch area. Do not worry, this will not affect the overall appearance of your jeans. In fact, I think they help lift your butt when you finally wear them jeans.


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Kittytenshi

Kittytenshi

Jul 9, 2008 5:04pm

I never ever thought of that before! Very cool idea!

Myam

Myam

Jul 10, 2008 12:48am

Thanks to everyone who faved :)

Sugarlishes

Sugarlishes

Jul 10, 2008 1:33am

you know i was just thinking about this myself the other day on how to make jeans tighter, woot you are my hero! :D

DIS.AR.RAY

DIS.AR.RAY

Jul 10, 2008 3:24am

UGH, thank you! I'm a [much] bigger girl, with a very large backend area :D and it doesn't really matter to me... its just that I can never find pants that pit perfectly. This is going to help so much! Thank you :D

kermit

kermit

Jul 10, 2008 6:18am

Good job!! Thanks a lot!

Cat Morley

Cat Morley

Jul 11, 2008 1:08pm

Great how-to!

Carli

Carli

Jul 15, 2008 6:37am

Thats great! Thought about this before but without reading your tut i probably would have forgotten this part >> "If you need to make your jeans an inch tighter, sew the inseam a half inch from the edge" and ended up with teeny jeans!
Thanks! =)

Nanie

Nanie

Jul 18, 2008 11:11pm

i love thrift store shopping and resizing my el-cheapo jeans like this but i have a terrible problem with the crotch fabric getting reeallly paper-thin :[ which obviously leads to holes and stuff :[ :[