How To Pull In The Waist Of Jeans

Spray down the area really well.

How to pull in the waist of jeans. Dress shirts jackets up to 6 total 3 off each side. Spritz the waistband and surrounding area with lukewarm water. I did find that the second method works better with some pants and especially if you are taking the pants in quite a bit. Lie flat on bed to pull the jeans all the way up and zip them.

Adjusting the back of the jeans. With the jeans unbuttoned hold part of the waistband in each hand. You can certainly adjust the legs though on both types as well to narrow the hips or to skinny a boot cut. You ll need it later.

Stretch the waist with your hands. Pull the waistband snug from the back and pin it in place. In the image above the measurement is 1 out of each side for a total of 3. Move around as well by bending over etc.

Use warm water to get the waist band wet after you have put the jeans on then move around i e. Pull the waistband snug and secure the excess with an extra large safety pin. Alterations by phyllis 286 758 views. Most of the time except for jeans you want to resize the sides for proper symmetry and drape.

Stand on part of the waistband and pull. Pin put on your jeans and pin the center back seam so that your center topstitching falls to one side. Make a note of the measurement. Get up and do some squats to loosen them up a bit.

How to take in the waist on a pair of jeans method 1 of 3. Taking in the sides of the jeans. Walk do squats etc. Jeans trousers no more than 2 off of the back.

Easy way to take in the waist of pants no cutting no machine how to take in jeans at the waist. To help stretch the damp material and wear the jeans until they dry. 10 minute diy side stripe jeans refashion. Fold the back of your jeans at the center mark then measure how much you ll be taking out of either side of the center back waist.

I love that in the first video you can do it by hand with no machine. Continue to pinch out the excess fabric down the center back seam until there s no more excess left to pin.