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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Kittytenshi
09 Jul 17:04
I never ever thought of that before! Very cool idea!
Myam
10 Jul 00:48
Thanks to everyone who faved :)
Sugarlishes
10 Jul 01:33
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
10 Jul 03:24
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
10 Jul 06:18
Good job!! Thanks a lot!
Cat Morley
11 Jul 13:08
Great how-to!
Carli
15 Jul 06:37
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! =)
ani-mals
18 Jul 23:11
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 :[ :[
charbie
08 Jan 14:09
this is like exactly what i want but i don't have "Lorelai" to turn to :'(
but really cool idea :)
kiddo
10 Jan 12:23
If I could use a sewing machine I would have like 100 pairs of jeans that would actually fit! I've lost the junk outta my trunk . . .
Connie D.
11 Jan 01:31
OMG! im also short and have a serious problem with jeans. i loath shopping for them, so this will work wonders for me. thank you, thank you, thank you!
Leila
25 Jan 00:14
I have always had problems with jeans and pants fitting. Although I did not try your particular "How To" I altered 3 pairs of pants and I love them now! My biggest problem is that they have to be too big in the waist in order to fit my thighs. I'm sure this is a common problem for all us girls.
Eszti
22 Feb 19:31
this is soo cool :) thanks!!!
it can be so frustrating looking for jeans!!
Sara J.
25 Aug 17:06
Very cool! I have some Jeans I'm going to try that with! Thanks!