How do you break in a pair of jeans?

Question

I've seen so many Jeans that cost 70 bucks that are ripped, bent, and have fade. How do I accomplish the fade and those special wrinkles that only the top designers have the ability to make?

how do i fade specific areas?

i'll give the best answer title to the person with the most detailed answer. i haven't hear anything about how to get those wrinkles.

Answer 1

wash a couple of times and wear them

Answer 2

What I have seen being used is Bleach and a razorblade. Depending on how much fade you want you can just add bleach into the wash, or for more intense fading with the worn look, you can apply the bleach right on the jeans. Let it sit for about 1 hour, rinse. Keep this up until you acheive the look. The razor to fray the area, be very careful when using a razor, and for that matter the bleach also. Bleach should always be used in a ventilated area. For the wrinkles, use a rubberband or string. Bunch up a section and tied it off with the rubberband or string before washing, keep the bunch until the jeans or dry.

Answer 3

To get that suave look of ripped jeans, my friends use cheese graters on certain areas. It might sound skeptical, but it really works. First, lay the jeans out flat with a flat surface in the legs so it's easier to work with. Then select an area, maybe the knees or something, and grate. It's a little difficult at first because you're essentially breaking jeans down. Just keep going though.
Another good way would be to brick them. Get two normal bricks and basically hold the jeans in between the bricks and scrape, or lay them flat and mark them. This might also add some color, but if you don't want that, just wrap the bricks in paper or something. The jeans will get worn and flat and maybe tear in some places if you do it the right wear. I wouldn't recommend buying already ripped jeans because that is just a waste of money. Wear the jeans long enough and eventually they'll break down.

Answer 4

First, take a pair of scissors and open it. 'shave' both sides of each pant leg a little bit with the edge of the scissors and wherever else you want them to fray. Then wash them. Then, wear them a lot with sandals or really flat sneakers so they drag on the ground. If you do it while it's raining or muddy on the ground, etc, they'll get worn faster. Then wash them some more. I think the wrinkles look silly. And the fade...you can get that just by buying an old pair of jeans at a thrift store or dab a TINY bit of bleach with a paper towel on areas you want faded. Sounds sloppy, but I was sort of a neo-hippie in highschool and those are some of the things we did to mar our jeans. Mostly it was wearing long jeans with small shoes and the fact that they drug on the ground that got the bottoms worn out. We walked a lot. :)

Answer 5

Breaking them in: wash and dry over and over like 30 times, preferably in a big, industrial washer like at a Laundromat.

Fade: Don't use bleach, it will eat at the fabric. Try folding them or covering them so that only the areas you want faded are exposed and leave them in the direct sun for a few days, maybe even a week or more.

Rips: Just use scissors and make small cuts. The edges will fray in the wash.

Wrinkles: I have no clue. You could try leaving them wet and bunched up for a day or so (not too long, they'll get mildewy and smelly). Or you could bunch em up real small and put something hravy on them for like a month. Also, use double the amount of fabric softener for a few washes - softener eats away at fabric and it will make the jeans more pliable.

Answer 6

well this is me but if i was going to pay almost 100 bucks for jeans i dont want holes,rips,bent or faded or even wrinkles because im thinking this is almost one fourth of a pay check but i know it is the style now i use to wear the wide bell bottoms with patches all over them and holes and that was in the seventies and i loved my jeans like that lol,but you can wash them a few times and wear the hell out of them and sit on them and walk and stomp on them just treat them like you would a old boyfriend that you are pissed off at and you will probably get some of the effect that you want i dont know really how they do the things they do it is probably very simple to do but i dont know how and i have never tried to answer a question on here like this before,you could call a dry cleaners and they might could give you advice cc

Answer 7

The fading done by designers is done by airbrushing bleach type solvents in specific areas. You can can use a spray bleach on dry jeans to get a similar effect. Try buying used jeans at the Salvation Army, they're cheap and already worn in most cases.
The wrinkle look comes from crumpling or folding up the area and spraying it with bleach.

Answer 8

The "wrinkles" are accomplished through a special dying process that is similar to tie-dying. It is hard to do it once the jeans have already been dyed. But you could try wrinkling them and then dying them even darker than they are already (get a pair of really light jeans to do this with). Or you could very carefully paint bleach in lines on them. You can fade them by rubbing something on them (like a sander) and then washing it and drying it. But jeans will naturally fade. To accomplish the rips and make them look real you can cut a small hole and then pull at it and fray it with your hands. Good luck.

Answer 9

Wrinkles are accomplished by not washing the jeans and keeping them thrown in a drawer when not wearing them. I mean, don't fold them right, don't hang them. The fade is like from constant activity. The look comes from scruby people. It's meant to be laid back and easy going, like not washing clothes. For real.

You can try also dropping the jeans on the floor and piling heavy stuff on top. For fade, try rubbing something on them over and over again.

I guess the point of selling them that way is so they won't stink like unwashed clothes do.

Answer 10

you can wash but dont dry them just yet. after the washer gets done then you pull out the jeans and bunch them up. you can do this however many times you want to. the more you bunch the more wrinkles you get.
for the fade, you could put the speciffic spot on a window seil. on a hot day the sun will shine through the window and on to the spot if you leave it for long enough it will fade out to a lighter color that the designers get.

Answer 11

Wear them, and wash them. Not sure why you're so worried about the jeans being faded and wrinkled. I mean, that fashion is sooooo overrated. I can't figure out why people like their jeans to bee faded. I mean, you can buy jeans that have holes in them already. Am I the only one, or do other people think that the present day youth fashion is a little backwards. I'm 21 years old, and I still don't get it. lol. Any comments?