As you may or may not have seen, distressed denim is making it's way back! I have loved the distressed look for years and am so glad that it's easy to find at the moment. So ripped jeans may have been in shops for years but it was big last year and I have a feeling this year too . From the Kardashians to Rhianna, celebrities have been seen sporting this trend and it's one I hope will stay in forever.
Buying ripped jeans can get a bit pricey so todays post is going to show you a few simple steps to distress your denim.
It's time to start cutting up those jeans you have had hiding in your wardrobe for months or years.
Some of the things you will need:
Jeans of course, my two pairs were some old ones I had found in a bag that I was chucking out that was full of clothes. I hadn't worn them since last year or maybe even the year before that. Yikes! They are both from New Look and are just plain skinnys in a black and a light wash denim.
Next on the list is a good pair of fabric scissors.. or some sharp kitchen scissors will do.
Then tweezers, every girl owns a pair so they shouldnt be too hard to get hold of. A pen to mark where you will be cutting. And finally a nail file, this is optional but I find it helps rough up the look.
The first step to do is try on your jeans to mark off the points you want to cut, I wanted to rip up the knees and cut them a bit shorter because you can probably tell they are long on me.
Step two, now this picture looks a bit dangerous so if you are a child I would ask for an adults help. You want to now cut the slits that were marked on the knee but be careful and dont cut through the back of the leg too. Unless thats the look you're going for, of course! The scissors have been photographed like that because once you have cut the slit, according to how big you want it, you take the scissors split apart and rub it along the cut denim. If that makes any sense then congratulations. If not then you can always do the same thing with a nail file, much simpler and safer.
Strep three, this is where the tweezers are used. You want to pul the individual threads so they become loose like the picture above. These are the threads going across you jeans not down.
To finsh off I wanted to shorten my jeans so I cut along the bottom of one leg according to where I had marked it. To make sure both legs were even I flipped one leg on top of the other and cut along the line. All that was left to do was repeat step two and three.
Jeans are complete, told you it was simple!
At this stage you can also rough up certain parts of the jeans with the nail file and add more rips. I added one more on the back pocket.
To loosen up the threads and make them ready to wear, just throw them in the washing machine, dry them and you're ready to rock your new distressed jeans straight off the catwalk!
Really sorry about this but I completely forgot to take a final photo of them, styling them up however there is plenty of inspiration online.. This is mainly because I seem to have lost them!
XOXO
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