Stressed Jeans (Part 2)

Here is the follow-up to let all you thrifty, hipster, do-it-your-selfer types that are interested in knowing how to make AWESOME looking faded and worn jeans for a fraction of the price and a lot more fun.

Aside from getting to know the sensible and money wise side of Teresa, this is what I learned from her and our digging around on the internet, I found there are lots of sites with really great tricks and there are even videos that explain it step by step:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKY7AwWZybQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fi7QqB9N-Y 

You will need some of the following items,

depending on what you want to do:

• Rubber gloves
• A crayon or chalk
• A little bleach
• Cotton swabs
• A few drops of paint, any colour
• A piece of sand paper, even a worn out piece
• A nail file
• A cheese grater
• A pair of scissors
• A garbage bag to stuff into the leg to stop bleach from soaking through.

You need to put the jeans on and actually chalk out the natural areas where they crease up and where your knees bend with the jeans.  Teresa explained that this is how you make them look real and not fake like the store bought ones cause they actually have scuffs where your body would normally wear scuffs over time. Then Teresa and I randomly went over each pair and applied some of the cool tricks we learned on you tube to the seams and pockets and some minor wear to a couple of knees (I like the slightly worn not totally destroyed look).  We applied the bleach to the crease marks with a cotton swab very carefully to match the chalk lines that I had drawn with the jeans on and I even did some experimenting with some drops of paint from a couple of old cans Dad said I could use.

I asked mom if I could do the laundry for the next few days so I was able to slip them in one at a time in with the family’s laundry so I could give them a few washes before I wear them. Teresa says they will just get better looking every time I wash them now that I have started the stress marks. I have to say they turned out great and I am really pumped about trying them out on Monday morning!

The idea is that everybody can express themselves and make their own jeans to their own taste and not have to blow their entire allowance on one simple thing and I thought the whole world should know this as well!  There really is a lot of information about this online.  Here are a couple more we found helpful but really, you just have to type: “how to stress jeans” into your search engine. 

http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-stress-jeans-bleach.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Distressed-Jeans

Good luck and have fun!