You can adjust jeans to your figure, adjust the model of new trousers with your own hands. Having carefully studied the methods of how to take in jeans, the work will be done quickly and efficiently, and the money saved on the work of the masters will replenish the family budget.
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You can make jeans fashionable and adjust them to your figure yourself. Having carefully studied all possible ways of how to take in jeans and having selected the right tool, you can start working.
On the sides
You can quickly and efficiently take in jeans along the side seams by following a certain algorithm of actions:
- turn the trousers inside out, put them on, pin the places that need to be taken in. Don't forget to leave a few centimetres of fabric for allowances;
- take off the jeans and draw a seam line with chalk on the pins. Make a baste with threads. The experts recommend trying on the trousers with the baste again so that you can adjust the seam line if necessary;
- stitch the basting or sew by hand;
- try on the jeans again. If there is no feeling of tightness, the trousers fit perfectly in the hips, you can proceed to the final stage of work;
- cut off the remaining fabric, remembering to leave a few centimeters for allowances;
- Overcast or machine finish the edges of the denim and stitch the second line.
At the waist
Owners of an ideal thin waist and rounded hips are familiar with the problem of wide-waisted jeans. It is easy to solve. All you need is patience, needles and threads (or better yet, a sewing machine), and a clear algorithm of actions.
The first option for how to take in jeans in width is simple:
- we mark several darts along the waist line;
- in the marked places, carefully rip off the belt (2-3 cm);
- using your hands or a sewing machine, sew the darts;
- cut off the extra centimeters of denim fabric;
- sew on the belt.
When creating darts in the buttock area, you need to be extremely careful. Long seams will tighten the fabric, and the jeans will not fit the figure as they should.
The second method of how to take in jeans at the waist at home requires more time, effort and patience:
- carefully unpick the belt loop located in the center of the waistband at the back. If a brand label is sewn in this place, it is also removed;
- we unravel the belt, ten centimeters to the right and left sides from the middle seam of the trousers;
- carefully rip open the inseam by eight centimeters;
- We iron all the ripped areas thoroughly and remove excess threads;
- we fix the middle seam with pins (this helps to avoid fabric displacement);
- turn two trousers inside out, place them on top of each other and draw a new seam line at a distance of two centimeters;
- we stitch the new markings, process the edges using a machine or by hand;
- turn the jeans inside out and stitch the two central lines;
- we apply the belt to the jeans, cut off the excess fabric and stitch;
- additionally, we pin the ripped belt loop and make a second line;
- The bottom edge of the product must be hemmed by hand or stitched on a machine.
We narrow it towards the bottom
You can narrow jeans at the bottom using the method of narrowing the product on the sides described earlier. But there is another way to take in jeans at the legs, allowing you to quickly and effortlessly get the desired result.
Before you start working, you need to prepare jeans that fit perfectly. Trousers that require adjustment are turned inside out and jeans of a narrower model are pinned onto them. Two pairs of trousers are pinned together, after which you can mark the new seam line. Using a sewing machine or by hand (which is much longer and more difficult), a seam is made along the markings. Excess fabric from the trousers is cut off and the edges are overlocked.
The technique of using a second pair of trousers to narrow the jeans towards the bottom helps to reduce the time spent on fittings significantly.If you need to narrow several pairs of jeans at the bottom, you can take a pattern from the “correct” model and use it as a template.
How to make pants one size smaller
You can solve the problem of jeans that are the wrong size by putting several simple methods into practice:
- Washing at high temperatures is the simplest and most effective method of how to reduce jeans by a size. The washing machine is set to the washing mode at 95 C. Place the trousers in the washing machine and spin the clothes in this mode for at least thirty minutes. The rinse mode must be turned off;
- drying on a hot radiator. Washed jeans are laid out on a hot radiator to dry or the product is dried using a steam dryer;
- "shock therapy" method. Prepare two containers: one with very hot water, the other with cold. First lower the denim trousers into a basin of boiling water (keep for at least ten minutes), and then quickly into a basin of cold water. These manipulations must be repeated two or three times. Afterwards, the jeans are wrung out well and dried.
When using the quick shrink method for a denim garment, the main thing is not to overdo it. Otherwise, the jeans will be impossible to put on.
Making pants a size smaller without using needles and threads will probably only work for a short time. In just a week, the jeans may stretch back to their original size. The only way to fix the size discrepancy problem effectively and permanently is to take them in.
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