I can't believe I just did this....

Queen Mum

first of all I can't believe I spent $100 on a pair of WHITE jeans, and then after painful deliberation, putting them in the return bag, taking them back out of the return bag... I cut them up and made them into skinnies. I'm even more shocked that I didn't screw them up royally and I'm 98% happy with the outcome. I cant take a pic now, but I have a few "alterations" to show you when I get around to it.

15 years ago

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Beth

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LOL! First, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who dithers like this:)

Second, I can't wait to see your new jeans! Which ones are they?

And third, you'll have to share how you narrowed them down.

15 years ago

Queen Mum

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beth- they are 7 for all mankind... and they were straight legs. My beef with straight legs is that I can never decide on a hem length and when they scrunch at the bottom they look sloppy. But I loved the fit and feel of them so much that I decided to go for it.
I'll share later how I went about narrowing them, it wasn't hard at all, but because the side seams of jeans are sewn slightly forward, the back of the leg is wider than the front and you want to keep that. so it isn't just a matter of tracing the shape of your skinnies onto the ones you want to narrow because you would lose that effect. (am I making any sense?) I did a trial run with an old pair of bootcuts, learned the little tricks and then proceeded with much more confidence on my hundred dollar pair. I'll write up a tutorial and post it soon.

15 years ago

Beth

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A tutorial would be great!

I understand the scrunch issue...that's the reason for my post about denim length that you just responded to! The jeans in those pics are straight legs...any shorter and they looked weird, but any longer and they looked messy. Argh!

And isn't doing surgery on expensive clothes scary? It took me 2 MONTHS to hem my jeans. :O Are we just marshmallows or what?!

15 years ago

cciele

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You are a brave woman, Kim! I am so glad it worked out and am eagerly awaiting photos

15 years ago

Angie

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I like your daring spunk! You did the right thing. I'm very impressed :0)

15 years ago

MNsara

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Wow, queenie - I am seriously impressed!!
I have been procrastinating on altering a $7 pair of jeans. . .
Can't wait for pics and tutorial!

15 years ago

taylor

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My heart pumps and I break a sweat each time I alter something:) I am sooo glad it worked out well for you!!!.
I have great turnouts 90% of the time ... with a few fatalities along the way:)

15 years ago

Dusty

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You're much braver than me. I had a hard time cutting into my $2 Goodwill jeans, I can't imagine being brave enough to mess with $100 jeans.

15 years ago

Queen Mum

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I knew I was taking a risk, but I had just done a practice pair and so knew exactly how to proceed. I can't wait to show off my new skinnies to you all I actually bought them with the intent of narrowing the leg. The bigger dilemma was whether to keep them in the first place, but I had searched high and low for white jeans and these were the first pair that fit right and felt great-- their only con was the leg width.

15 years ago

tarzy

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Interesting! Just yesterday I was wondering if it would be possible to turn a pair of boot cuts into straight legs. The only jeans that fit me as far as rise are the DKNY SOHOs, but they only come in boot cut (or skinny, which are REALLY skinny.) I would love to have a pair of straight legs for variety. Do you think this could be done?

15 years ago

Queen Mum

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Tarzy- I think you can totally do that. I"m going to write out how I did it and post it later. (you want to be really precise when messing with a brand new pair of jeans from the store)

15 years ago

Katiepea

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Wow - I'm impressed! I'm looking forward to seeing them on (and the tutorial).

15 years ago

RoseandJoan

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Can't wait for the photo's Kim.

15 years ago

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