shrinking jeans?

you know my purple skinnies?

they're not skinny enough >.,

and

i want to shrink them... any ideas?

i wasn't sure if this should go in DIY or in fashion...

Do you mean take the leg in or literally make the whole thing smaller?

I remember my dad telling me about his sister making her jeans skin tight. Put them on, get into a bath tub of hot water and sit in it for a bit, then get out and let them dry. Repeat until tight enough.

I don't know if this actually works, but that's what my aunt did when she was a teenager.

Lol yes as above, I have heard that story from my mum too. Apparently it was very common practise!

Yeahh apparently in some big american Levi shop they have an in-store bath you can do that in!

If you pinch the outer side of it, is it skinny enough??
If it is then you could turn it inside out/rip open the seam with a seam ripper and just sew further in than the old seam.
If it's anything that needs the inner thigh to be resized though, then it gets complicated.

Also if you only want the calf to be thinner then thats easily done too, and you CAN do the inner calf. Basically the same as what i said up there ^^ Except you can pin/chalk/whatever while its on so that you have the shape you want.

And last note, if you do end up sewing rather than bath-tubbing, apply the golden DIY rule for clothing.. better to have it slightly too big when you resize and just resize again, than end up with it too small. That's a nightmare!

just wash your pants in hot water, and dry them on really high heat. thats how my clothes shrink [except I never want them to!].

Put them in the tumble dryer!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, with most jeans, they are "pre-shrunk". So drying them doesn't make them shrink in, they shrink up about an inch (at the hem).

excelent. dad even has a bath i can use

Do they have stretch in them? Because the bath "trick" was used when jeans used to have no stretch at all. I don't think that would work so well on "modern" jeans. Unless of course, no stretch.

go to www.craftster.org
there are tutorials for making jeans skinny-er aplenty

i decided to rip out the seams on the calves and put zippers in

i cant do it right now but eventually

thansk girls!

tutorial fo joo!!!

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=129855.0

awr thanks!

no problem!

im gonna sew contrasting coloured zippers in muahaha

like bright yellow on purple

although thatd make matching clothes really hard