Ripped jeans have repeatedly entered the fashion since the 1980s and recently became even more popular.
However, sometimes such jeans can be quite expensive. In addition, not everyone can immediately find a suitable pair of jeans with holes and losses in the right places and the desired size.
Good news: You can make ripped jeans yourself at home so that they match your personal preferences.
How to make ripped jeans?
You can make torn jeans from any couple: either from old jeans that you no longer wear, or buy an inexpensive pair of jeans in the store.
Slightly worn jeans look a little advantageous and more realistic than absolutely new or dark jeans.
If you want to give jeans slightly done, let's post them several times in hot water with a bleach, before proceeding to work.
You'll need:
· Jeans
· Scissors
· Emery paper (pumice or grater for cheese)
· Pinzet
· A piece of chalk
· A piece of cardboard or wooden bar (optional)
1. Put jeans to determine in which places you would like to create scuffs or holes. With the help of chalk or pencil, mark these places.
Tip: If you want to make slots in the area of the knee, try to make them slightly above the knee, since during walking the slot can get more.
2. Put jeans on a flat surface and put the wooden bar (cardboard, old book or magazine), so as not to spoil and do not cut the back of the pant.
3. Using emery paper (pumice or grates for cheese) Start to wear places where you want to create a ribbon effect.
4. With scissors, crush along the edge of the slot to create a corrugated edge.
Tip: If you want to limit ourselves to the rubbing, you can not use scissors, but wipe the place using sandpaper until you see white horizontal threads under the surface.
5. If you want to make holes, then make straight horizontal slots in the area where you make holes. The slits are better to do at a distance of 1.2-2 cm from each other, which will facilitate the next step.
6. No need to make big cuts. You can always make them more, but risk spoiling them.
With the help of a tweezers, start pulling out the vertical threads where you made cuts. Nothing terrible if you pull out not all the threads - the effect will be more natural.
How to make holes and losses on jeans?
This is how scuffing and holes on jeans look like when using different methods.
1. Cheese grater
Make a few parallel cuts and with a grater for cheese and pull the surface of the cuts, giving them the texture.
2. Pinzet
Make parallel cuts on jeans and start removing vertical (blue) threads, leaving white threads.
3. Scissors
Cut pieces of jeans desired size or cut the bending.
4. Emery paper
This method is best suited if you want to create an easy and natural scoring effect.
A source