How To Take In The Waist On Your Jeans

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How to take in the waist on your jeans. Lucky for you tapering the legs of jeans to make them slimmer is a pretty straight forward alteration for a good tailor as long as you re not drastically changing. How to take in the waist on a pair of blue jeans. If you must. Measure how much you re taking out.

The further down you go the less noticeable the transition from original thread to diy topstitching. Start by cutting a 5 inch piece of 1 inch elastic. Once the fabric is fixed in place carefully take your jeans off and use a sewing machine to sew a straight stitch along the pinned lines. Cut a piece of elastic.

Set that aside since you ll replace it after you. Take in the rest of the back side of the jeans. Then secure the excess fabric with straight pins. Use denim jeans thread as a first choice.

Or maybe you ve got an old pair of straight leg jeans and skinny jeans are more your style now. Cut out the excess fabric on the waistband so it doesn t bulk up and look unnatural picture 10. Really pin as far down the seat as you can. Sometimes you ll find a pair of jeans that fit well through the waist and hips but the thighs are a bit too baggy for your liking.

It can be longer if you d like a. Cut slits in the waistband. Undo topstitching at the. Remove the back stitching.

Now we have a waistband that is smaller than the rest of the jeans in the area of the yoke picture9. My local shop only had blue in stock so i found a matching heavy duty thread.