how can i sew my jeans to make them tighter?

Answer 1

It sounds like it should be simple, but if there are pockets, they will end up in your new side seams. And you could end up with skinny leg pants but a crotch down to your knees.

Take them apart, lay on a purchased pattern for the right size jeans, and re-cut. You'll have to re-cut the pockets too.

When you re-size pants, it involves the outside leg, inseam, crotch slope and waistband.

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Answer 2

You can try an old method. I had to peg my sisters pants and they would put them on inside out. I would use safety pins and pin them close to the body then take them off and make a sewing line with some chalk and sew them up. Worked every time.

Answer 3

sew the inside leg seams up tighter, the outside leg seams are flat felled and a huge pain to put back together.

Answer 4

When you re-sew something, you risk losing the look the item originally had. Have you thought of shrinking them instead?

Answer 5

turn them inside out and remove the side seams and then resew them to be tighter