How do you rip jeans and still make them look good? =D?

Question

you don need to kno! o(^_^)o ♥

Answer 1

1. Buy a pair of comfortable loose pants, or use a pair that you already have.

2. Prepare to cut them either while wearing them or with them off. It's easier if they are on you, but be extra careful to avoid cutting yourself.

3.Start with sandpaper (get a piece of the roughest cut you can from dad or your local Walmart/Home Depot) and rub hard across the front of your knees, thighs, and shins with it. If you sandpaper over folds of the jeans you will get "lines" of contrasting dark and light shades.

4. Find the way the lines are going and rub the blade of the knife against the lines. For example, if the lines are horizontal, do it vertically (and vice versa).

5. When you have created a slit, take the pointy end of the knife and rub it against the edges until you see the white strings going in the opposite direction. Keep doing this until you have the desired hole size. Repeat this until you have a good number of holes in the pants.

6. To cut a knee hole, it's best to sand down the knees the most. They will begin to fray and holes will begin to form. Spread apart the holes within the desired location as far as you want the hole to extend with the tip of a knife, then rub the edges with the knife so that they get fuzzy and messy.

7. When the jeans are finished, throw them in the water with a little bit of bleach to age them a bit. Then dry them. The washing will also fray the cuts and make them look better.

8. Voila! You have just created your own unique ripped jeans - take that, name brands!


Tips

* A cheese grater or wood file also works well for fraying and distressing the fabric. The different sizes of grain can be used to give the new marks a more natural look.

* Don't just hang them out to dry. It's the tumble drying which creates the natural-looking fluff.

* Most jean companies seem to place the rips in spots on the jeans where they normally wouldn't get ripped by day to day activities.

* Newly created holes should be reinforced with fabric and iron on adhesive. Turn the jeans inside out and cut the fabric to the appropriate shape and line it with adhesive. Press straight down on the fabric with the iron for several seconds before moving the iron around to let the adhesives set.

* Try not to make too many holes. That just looks tacky. Around 3-7 is a good number (depending on the size).

* Use pumice stone, too. It's mainly used to get dead skin off your feet, but you can use it on your jeans, too! Also, bleach pens create the bleach spots on the new jeans this season.

* If you are trying to rip your jeans in the region around your knee to your ankle, you might want to consider sewing a little bit near the tip of the "V". This will prolong the jean life and prevent it from ripping more.


Warnings

* If you are wearing the jeans, try not to cut yourself.
* Designer jeans are made to stay the way they look forever. Your own rips will likely continue to grown and fray and eventually the jeans will become too destroyed to wear.


Things You'll Need

* A piece of rough sandpaper
* A sharp knife with a pointy tip
* A pair of jeans

Answer 2

I'm not a don, but I'll make you some suggestions you can't refuse. You have to first iron the area of the jeans where you want the rip to make it really hot. Then start rubbing the jeans on a hard surface, such as asphalt or dried cement; try to have surface that's not too dirty. In time, the area you want ripped will start to rip. Any threads that are still connecting the area can be simply snapped with a knife, scissors, or even your hand.
A common method is to first rub the area you want to rip in order to see the threads more clearly with a strong sandpaper. Then rub your knife on the threads (if the threads are running vertically, then run the knife horizontally, and vice versa). Then, cut into the threads to snap them. Bleach the area, and the jeans are ripped.
Another possible option is to just lay the iron on area you want ripped until it makes a hole in the jeans. Be careful though, because you probably don't want the hole to be too big. There may still be some connecting threads, so use your knife or similar tool to snap them apart. (I paraphrased this from a link provided in the Sources section.)
That's basically what to do if you want to rip your jeans and make them look good. Usually, people just rip them a little bit at the knee area. It's thereby better to use the first or second set of instructions I provided.

Answer 3

Ripped jeans are actually out of style. You can make a worn look around the pockets but you should go with some nice slim fitting jeans. Thin is in !

Answer 4

well, you should probably soak them in hot water for 30 mins then dry them to make them soft and then rip a big huge hole and dry them for 30 mins and kabam you have good-lookin 2 cute 2 b true ripped jeans

Answer 5

over wash them and drip a few drops of bleach on them .... cut a small whole on the knee and then rip it to wear it is even bigger

Answer 6

Steel toothed brush

Answer 7

I'm not sure, but I've heard of people who use cheese graters.

Answer 8

sounds like an oxymoron to me

Answer 9

right across the knee

Answer 10

idk