How to make ripped jeans with your own hands?

Ripped jeans are one of the most controversial pieces of fashionable wardrobe. Some holey pants delight, while others they cause only bewilderment and irritation. However, both supporters and opponents of torn jeans would agree that today it is one of the main trends in clothing.

Ripped jeans do not go out of fashion for several seasons in a row, so more and more girls and young people are thinking about purchasing such a thing. But the prices for such pants are not at all lower, and sometimes even higher than on whole clothes, and not everyone is ready to overpay for an impractical, albeit fashionable thing.

The solution to this problem is obvious - to make fashionable holey jeans with your own hands. For detailed instructions on how to do this at home, read below.

It is more correct to make fashionable ripped pants out of old, but favorite jeans, which have already managed to get worn out, but it is a pity to throw them out. These jeans usually have scuffs and gaps in the right places - we just have to increase the effect a little.

You should not give a second life to pants that are already worn out and are in a state of “ejection”, because our task is to look stylish, but neat. Therefore, jeans with indelible stains, holes between the leg and other defects that can not be corrected, it is better to throw.

If you do not have suitable old jeans, you can try to modify the new pants. It is not recommended to buy good, expensive jeans for these purposes, because the result may disappoint you.

For the first experience, we recommend to buy cheap jeans on sale at a discount center. The main thing is that they are of acceptable quality and fit well.

To make a truly stylish thing and look flawless in it, it is important to know the right places in which to make gaps.

Usually holes are made on the following parts of jeans:

• pockets - back and front;
• belt - in this place it is better to do a neat mahr and scuffs, and not through holes;
• trouser legs - the most convenient and most popular place; holes can be made everywhere except in the knee area: in this area the fabric is very strongly stretched and the gaps quickly increase in size, so the holes should be located a few centimeters above or below the knees.

You can get beautiful fringed holes only by using a special set of tools and materials.

If you just cut jeans with a scissors or a razor, the effect is not at all what you would expect.

Therefore, to work you need to stock up:

• a small piece of plywood or cardboard;
• a sharp knife, for example, a clerical;
• small wax or remnant;
• sewing machine;
• fine float, file or piece of sandpaper;
• You may also need a set of safety pins, tweezers and a vacuum cleaner.

1. First, decide on the future appearance of jeans. For convenience, you can even draw a sketch, which will mark the location of all decorative elements: holes, scuffs, patches, etc.
2. After that, transfer the sketch directly to the jeans. Apply the markup directly to the front of the pants with a piece of soap or chalk.If you have a washable marker, it will be more convenient to use it.
3. Now you need to explore denim. Well consider weaving and determine the location of white and colored threads. It is important for you to understand which ones go vertically and which ones go horizontally. If it is difficult to determine this by eye, make an incision in an inconspicuous place and disassemble the edge along the threads.
4. Before starting work, put something solid under the place of the future cut, for example, a piece of plywood, so as not to damage the other side of the jeans. Plywood need to push into the leg, and not just put on her pants!
5. Start cutting according to the drawn markup. Do not make the incisions too long, as they will still gradually creep away. To make the holes “like in a store,” try to make the cut in one motion.
6. Now you need to give fresh tears stylish shabby look. For this we need a sewing rasparivatel. With it, gently pull the white thread, and color - remove. If you do not like holes, closed with threads, you can simply walk around the edges with a float or nail file.
7. Quickly remove thread trimming and dust left over from sawing with a special sticky roller for clothing or a handheld vacuum cleaner.

Even more interesting model can be done by adding jeans to the effect of wear.

To do this, you can use any available tools with an abrasive effect:

• kitchen graters;
• nail files;
• sandpaper;
• bars for sharpening knives.

Just pick up one of these tools and start carefully processing the jeans in the right place. Be careful: do not damage the white thread, otherwise rubbing quickly turn into holes.

To make the scuffs brighter and look more expressive, walk around them with a sponge dipped in a bleaching agent (remember that you need to work with rubber gloves, as bleaching powder is dangerous for the skin).

Those who just ripped jeans seem not effective, you can advise further decorate them with lace inserts. The combination of rough denim and delicate lace looks very beautiful and unusual.

For the decor, we need quite a bit of lace, so if you have trimmed lace ribbons, that's just fine. Light jeans are better to decorate with black lace inserts, and dark ones - white.

Sew lace should be on the wrong side. The “patch” should be slightly larger than the hole itself. Do not be afraid to cut too large a piece - after finishing work, you can easily cut off the excess.

Lace should be sewn along the contour of the hole with small, frequent stitches (for convenience, the patch can be fixed with safety pins). Choose threads in tone of lace - so they will be less noticeable.