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Skinny Jeans

Resize your baggy jeans in to a pair of skinny jeans!

Skinny Jeans cost so much in the stores, why spend $$$ when you can make them yourself :P

I go to thirft stores/good will stores and buy jeans then just sew them up myself!

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Turn your jeans inside out then put them on.

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Sit down, make sure your legs are flat and that the pants legs are straightened out.

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Draw a line from the bottom of the pants leg to the thigh (I usually just go all the way up to the crotch area). What your doing is your drawing the line your going to sew on, so make sure it isn’t too close too your leg (so that its not too tight) or too far (so that it‘s not too loose). Make sure you can get your foot in and out of the pants hole too.

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It should look like something like this after you‘ve draw the line (just pretend the jeans in the pic are inside out :p)

Once you’ve got your lines drawn, you can start sewing along them. One leg first, then the other.

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If your sewing by hand be sure to check (try them on) every now and then to see if they fit okay. If they don’t you’ll have to redraw your line and possibly start over.
When you finish sewing up both pants legs try them on.
If they fit then you can take some scissors and cut off the excess jeans.

After cutting them: To keep the parts thats left from fraying, you can stich them up. (thanks tama_sempai!)
Turn them back out. They should look something like this:
YAY you made some skinny jeans! Now wear them!

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'Gemyz

January 16th, 2008 03:13

i love skinny jeans
great idea :]

Cat Morley

January 16th, 2008 17:30

Wow this is a great idea and much cheaper than buying.

Arko

January 16th, 2008 18:10

It's good if you can get Jeans with a little stretch in 'em before you sew in my experience.

Awsome tutorial :3

ramonehead187

January 16th, 2008 23:22

i've made these before. they totally rock.

dee j.

January 17th, 2008 20:44

I don't get instruction numbers 2 and 3...

O___o

Mia

January 17th, 2008 22:00

Hmmm, if it helps any, I'll take pictures of what I meant and put them up tomorrow :)

michaelasaurus

January 18th, 2008 12:17

I am attacking my jeans as soon as i get home. =D

Nessah.

January 22nd, 2008 23:55

mm heck yesssss..this makes me wanna sew more jeanss. butt im too lazyy blehhhhh. =]

Sari

January 25th, 2008 01:30

Thanks so much! I just did this on a pair of my jeans today and it worked very well. :D

TL H.

January 25th, 2008 15:56

YES!
Finally - buy for your own hips and waist and do the alter yourself. Even the skinny jeans in Canada aren't meant for size 12s!

Kendra P.

January 28th, 2008 01:23

Freakin great tutorial. I was wondering how to modify non-skinny pants into skinny pants but was too nervous to try messing with it on my own.

tarrah.

January 28th, 2008 09:35

thank you soooo much this is uber rad and it only took me 1 hr!

tarrah.

January 28th, 2008 09:35

thank you soooo much this is uber rad and it only took me 1 hr!

Joni

January 29th, 2008 21:22

excellent, much better than buying new ..x

Manda Z.

February 4th, 2008 19:21

I tried this yesterday
it works! and its super easy!

R0oster

February 9th, 2008 16:55

SucH a Good IdeA! I Heart SkinnY Jeans , I'm soo Gonna Do this!!

OX____SARAH<3

February 13th, 2008 21:23

if i wanted to buy Skinnys from New Look it ud cost me £20! this FOR FREE! (somewhat!) :]

Alexa S.

March 7th, 2008 21:28

(Hyperventilating) OMG! (Runs to her closet for some old worn out jeans)

MIHO

March 27th, 2008 14:52

I love this how-to! <3 Thanks for posting this!

Brendon L.

April 21st, 2008 03:02

this is way smart and who ever came up with this idea is a genius

b0neshaker

May 19th, 2008 19:39

This is fantastic !
I can finally tailor some of my baggier jeans now, thanks !

awesome idea
just did them last night and my "new" jeans look great for the cost of pretty much $0!
one tip though, from my mum lol, when you cut off the excess jeans, in part 7, you might as well sow together the little excess flanges together using one of your special binding stitching patterns on your sowing machine, that way it makes the inside of your jeans more comfortable and will prevent those flanges from fraying
but other than that, thanks so much! i have new jeans!

Mia

June 18th, 2008 19:35

Oooh! Riiiight lol!
I'll add that, mucho thanks to your mom! :]

Fashionista Baby

July 5th, 2008 18:31

great idea i love it! im gonna try that one day =)

DIS.AR.RAY

August 12th, 2008 03:51

Thats awesome! I've got to do that when I get my sewing machine [I would have hand sewn that a few years ago... but now... I am TOTALLY not that focused :D] and thanks for the tut. I've been looking for some white skinny jeans to tie dye, but I can just get some old baggy white jeans ! :D

LibertySavage

August 22nd, 2008 18:21

I love skinny jeans but I just got a pair thats baggy on me.
I know what I'm going to do :]

JennyFish(:

August 26th, 2008 03:57

sweeeet:D
i had baggy jeans
and this shall help mee((:
thanxx
:D

amber s.

November 22nd, 2008 18:12

this was awesome, i usually cant find jeans my legnth
( 5ft11)
so this was a awesome idea:)

KellyGalactic

November 23rd, 2008 14:58

:DDDD

Gabby.

December 2nd, 2008 02:52

thanks for the great idea!!

KiLLA KEE

January 18th, 2009 16:06

this is realy cool :D
i tried this and
did this with 3 pair of my jeans

Cosmical Sage

January 24th, 2009 19:45

I tried it and as a novice it was sooo easy and fast! I messed up on the left leg (my foot wouldnt go all the way through because I have some big feet -eyeroll- but it took 55 mins (timed).

Tip:I found that it was good if I sat down and used pins to test the comfortability and I hope that others would think to do that because they could look great and feel great when you're standing but sitting could be a #&*@! if you arent thinking about these things :D

10 thumbs up! 5 stars!

Cosmical Sage

January 25th, 2009 20:42

Update: Okay, I'm a boy--rough and tumble boy who happens to like sewing. Anyway, I ripped the pants in several places because we started jumping around on coaches and whatnot... But I'm going to redo them with JEANS as they were intended. But I found out that you can use the skinnies as a stencil for the new jeans.

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