Parting with old clothes is almost always painful, especially when it comes to your favorite jeans that have become unusable. However, the presence of imagination and a certain amount of decorative materials can prolong the life of worn "Wranglers", "Diesels" or "Livays".
The most relevant styles today are grunge and casual, which means that newly worn and torn jeans are in trend. With a little effort, experienced needlewomen will be able to transform a second-hand item into trendy pants.
To update boring jeans, you will have to familiarize yourself with the most original trends, flip through fashion magazines or look for interesting ideas on portals dedicated to hand-made art and needlework.
Before you start reworking, you need to wash your jeans and remove any stains that go against the design intent. After the jeans are dry, you need to carefully examine them, carefully circle the dirty or damaged areas with soap or tailor's chalk. Then you need to put on jeans and carefully examine the chalk marks. Perhaps they will fold into some original pattern.
New look for old pants
Assess the condition of your jeans soberly. If they look quite solid, then special tweaks are not needed, it will be enough to come up with a creative finish for the pants.
Jeans that have small, non-washable stains can be decorated with small thermo-appliques. Pants covered with small hearts or flowers look very romantic and cute. If you want to add a casual outfit to your wardrobe, give your pants a casual look by stitching on them with different-sized, multi-colored patches.
Girls who want to look bright and impressive should try updating their jeans with rhinestones. It is not difficult work, but it requires patience and accuracy. You can transfer some original pattern to the legs along the side seams and lay it out with rhinestones of different shapes and sizes. Pockets, wide cuffs or cuffs, completely decorated with multi-colored sequins, look interesting.
Global redesign
If you think that a high-quality branded item does not need additional decor, but it's time to radically change the look of your old pants, you can repaint them. By staining with an ombre (or gradient), you can achieve the fact that the color of the product will evenly transition from a dark shade to a light shade or vice versa. To achieve this effect, light-colored jeans should be placed in a dye solution, and dark jeans with a bleaching agent and then dried vertically.
You can radically change the look of jeans by using the knot dyeing technique - batik. To do this, they need to be tied up with rubber bands, twisted, dipped in dye, rinsed in cold water, and then rolled up to dry. As a result, fancy stains will appear on the pants. If you use several different dyes, alternately drying and curing each layer, you get real impressionistic compositions.
The author's painting on jeans looks great, which can be done with bleach or special markers for the fabric.
Well-worn jeans can be turned into a chic bohemian outfit by making them ripped. The holes in the legs are cut with a blade, then their edges are rubbed with sandpaper or pumice stone, the threads are pulled to break the holes and give them the desired effect.
