Jeans are perhaps the most versatile piece of clothing that has never gone out of fashion for decades. Only the forms change, but nowadays you can successfully wear a 20-year-old model, you just need to slightly transform it.
These 17 cool ideas for reworking old jeans will really give the old thing a new look.
1. Braid
To quickly freshen up the look of old jeans, black lace with pom-poms will help. Sew it neatly along the side seams and along the front pocket stitching.
2. Small detail
Carefully rip out the corner of the back pocket and grab it with a thread. Decorate the opened area with metal rivets. So insignificant, at first glance, will transform old thing and give it a new trendy look.
3. A scattering of beads
Beaded jeans are one of the fashion trends of the season. However, do not rush to spend money on buying another pair of trousers. You probably have a pair of plain old jeans in your closet. Gently sew a couple of dozen beads to the legs and voila - you are already the happy owner of brand new trendy pants.
4. Bag
A very old shirt or jeans can be used to create an original handbag. Of course, to implement such an idea, you will need a sewing machine and the skills to work with it.
5. Lace
Stylish trousers with a spectacular black lace insert on the sides - an idea that anyone can implement, armed with only scissors, a needle, thread and a piece of guipure fabric.
6. Short vest
Give a plain denim jacket a new look. To do this, you need to shorten it by about half, rip off the sleeves and fasten beautiful ribbon ties at the bottom.
7. Patches
Extend the life of kids' jeans by decorating knee holes with colorful superhero patches, or transform rips into fun monsters.
8. Mickey Mouse
Classic plain jeans can be turned into a unique trend piece by embellishing them with Mickey Mouse images. Moreover, to implement this idea, you will not need special artistic skills, only a special stencil and felt-tip pen for fabric.
9. Glamor fringe
Glamorous fringe ribbon, bright patches, sequins and half an hour of free time - that's all it takes to make a simple denim jacket look fantastic.
10. Leather inserts
Do you want to add a touch of audacity and sexuality to your everyday look? Decorate a pair of classic skinny jeans with eco-leather wide panels.
11. Plaid patches
Flashy red plaid patches look great when paired with classic blue denim. Therefore, if you have a pair of these jeans available, it makes sense to pick up scissors, needles and threads and start their fashionable transformation.
12. Gradient
Unusual painting will help to update an old vest. To do this, dilute a little special fabric paint in water, dip a thing into it, so that the water covers it a little more than half and leave it for a while. After removing the vest from the water, put it in the bath and carefully rub the border of staining with a stiff brush. After doing all these manipulations, rinse the vest well in cold running water.
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13. Bright pockets
With the help of shreds of bright fabric, you can transform summer shorts in no time. Such a bright detail will undoubtedly attract the attention of others and become the highlight of the image.
14. Unusual divorces
Bleach your shorts with bleach or dye them with fabric dye. Despite the fact that these methods are as old as the world, they have not lost their relevance even now.
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15. Embroidery
Embroidery is as popular as ever this season. So, if you have the appropriate skills, feel free to take a needle in your hand and start decorating the legs of old jeans with bright flowers, leaves and birds.
16. Patches
Worn but beloved jeans can be revived with bright patches. Decorate worn parts with them and do not be afraid to overdo it. In the end, you will receive a unique item that no one you know will definitely have.
17. Crossbreeding
A stylish denim jacket with jersey sleeves and a hood is a perfect example of crossing an old denim vest and a worn jersey sweater.
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Jeans are perhaps the most versatile piece of clothing that has never gone out of fashion for decades. Only the forms change, but nowadays you can successfully wear a 20-year-old model, you just need to slightly transform it. These 17 cool ideas for reworking old jeans will really give the old thing a new look.
1. Braid
To quickly freshen up the look of old jeans, black lace with pom-poms will help. Sew it neatly along the side seams and along the front pocket stitching.
2. Small detail
Carefully rip out the corner of the back pocket and grab it with a thread. Decorate the opened area with metal rivets. So insignificant, at first glance, will transform the old thing and give it a new fashionable look.
3. A scattering of beads
Beaded jeans are one of the fashion trends of the season. However, do not rush to spend money on buying another pair of trousers. You probably have a pair of plain old jeans in your closet. Gently sew a couple of dozen beads to the legs and voila - you are already the happy owner of brand new trendy pants.
4. Bag
A very old shirt or jeans can be used to create an original handbag. Of course, to implement such an idea, you will need a sewing machine and the skills to work with it.
5. Lace
Stylish trousers with a spectacular black lace insert on the sides - an idea that anyone can implement, armed with only scissors, a needle, thread and a piece of guipure fabric.
6. Short vest
Give a plain denim jacket a new look. To do this, you need to shorten it by about half, rip off the sleeves and fasten beautiful ribbon ties at the bottom.
7. Patches
Extend the life of kids' jeans by decorating knee holes with colorful superhero patches, or transform rips into fun monsters.
8. Mickey Mouse
Classic plain jeans can be turned into a unique trend piece by embellishing them with Mickey Mouse images. Moreover, to implement this idea, you will not need special artistic skills, only a special stencil and felt-tip pen for fabric.
9. Glamor fringe
Glamorous fringe ribbon, bright patches, sequins and half an hour of free time - that's all it takes to make a simple denim jacket look fantastic.
10. Leather inserts
Do you want to add a touch of audacity and sexuality to your everyday look? Decorate a pair of classic skinny jeans with eco-leather wide panels.
11. Plaid patches
Flashy red plaid patches look great when paired with classic blue denim. Therefore, if you have a pair of these jeans available, it makes sense to pick up scissors, needles and threads and start their fashionable transformation.
12. Gradient
Unusual painting will help to update an old vest. To do this, dilute a little special fabric paint in water, dip a thing into it, so that the water covers it a little more than half and leave it for a while. After removing the vest from the water, put it in the bath and carefully rub the border of staining with a stiff brush. After doing all these manipulations, rinse the vest well in cold running water.
Video bonus:
13. Bright pockets
With the help of shreds of bright fabric, you can transform summer shorts in no time. Such a bright detail will undoubtedly attract the attention of others and become the highlight of the image.
14. Unusual divorces
Bleach your shorts with bleach or dye them with fabric dye. Despite the fact that these methods are as old as the world, they have not lost their relevance even now.
Video bonus:
15. Embroidery
Denim vest with knitted details.
A stylish denim jacket with jersey sleeves and a hood is a perfect example of crossing an old denim vest and a worn jersey sweater.
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Altering clothes is far from a sign of poverty. Although, of course, often such a need arises due to lack of funds for new things. Therefore, old ones are used: worn jeans are repaired or cut off, dresses are sewn from shirts, coats are converted into a jacket, and so on.
But turning one old piece of clothing into another new one is also a creative process. There may be a lot of interesting ideas. And not necessarily these clothes were in a sock. Perhaps the item was bought and did not fit in size. And what cannot be worn as is, can be remade completely into something else, or make changes, decorate.
If not everyone, then many have cut their jeans to shorts. Did you sew a dress out of trousers or jeans? No? Then you can’t even imagine what interesting models can turn out.
We sew a dress from trousers
Method number 1: patches or stripes
It is logical that the trousers are pieces of fabric from which a dress can be cut in the same way as from a whole piece of material. Only it will not be a one-piece model, because we are limited by the cut of trousers.
First, we wash the trousers, if necessary, after they dry, we cut the fabric at the seams without any flaws (abrasions, stains, hooks, holes).
The dress will have to be assembled from small parts. Choose a pattern with details that fit on the cuts from the trousers.
Skinny trousers alone are hardly enough for a dress, unless you are sewing one for a little girl. Therefore, you will have to combine two, or even more. In this case, the fabric should be approximately the same thickness and, of course, combined in color, texture or pattern.
Two-pants dress example
Trousers were used from the same monophonic dense stretch fabric of different colors: black and red. The dress was sewn, so to speak, at random, without a pattern. Other black stretch fabric is used for sleeves, neckline and hem.
1, 2. We cut the seams along the perimeter of the legs. We get 8 pieces of fabric: 4 black, 4 red.
3, 4, 5. We make the middle of the dress red. We cut a strip for the front and back. If the length of the whole piece is not enough, we make it from parts. You can do embroidery.
6, 7. Cut out the side parts of the front. We attach two side parts to the middle part of the front.
8, 9. Draw an armhole line on one side. Cut out. Fold the part in half, circle the armhole on the second part and cut it out. We correct the side line, cut off the excess.
10. Level the bottom.
11. Before the dress is ready.
12. On a black strip of fabric we put the middle part of the back (the edges overlap), circle around the edge of the middle part.
13. So cut out the two side parts of the back.
14. We sew the middle part of the back with the side ones.
15. We impose on the back in front of the front sides inward, along the front we draw a line of the bottom and armholes on the back.
16. Fold the back in half face inward, draw a side line.
17. The back of the dress is ready.
18, 19. We sweep the back with the front, folding the parts face to face, along the side seams. We measure. We plan surpluses, remove, correct.
20. We cut out the sleeve from unnecessary fabric, tack, measure, adjust.
21. We tear off, cut out according to the markup and get a sleeve pattern. According to these patterns, we already cut out the details from the prepared fabric (4 in total).
22. Sew along one side.
23. We attach to the armhole.
24. Sew the sleeves. Sew them on the bottom.
25. Sew a strip folded in half lengthwise to the neckline. We insert a wide elastic band.
You can also sew a strip of fabric to the bottom of the dress, which is used for the sleeves. Here is a dress made of trousers.
From the stripes, you get such a pretty sundress on a drawstring.
The dress can be sewn according to this principle: cut the pattern into strips, as shown in the figure, then cut these parts out of the trousers.
You can first stitch the canvas from the stripes, and then cut out the details of the dress.
Method number 2: use the top of the trousers as the original part of the dress
Wide trousers or, moreover, men's trousers big size give more options. The part with a belt can be used both on top of the dress and on the bottom. See original ideas.
Method number 3: pants and a dress
From very wide knitted trousers with an elastic band, just like that, in the leg of which you fit freely, you can sew such a stylish dress.
Everything is done very simply. Put one leg on the body, the other on the arm.
Mark the width of the bottom of the sleeve.
Model the line of the sleeve. Sew from the bottom of the leg to the lower convergence of the middle seams of the pants.
Cut off excess fabric, finish the edge.
We sew a dress from jeans
The simplest dress will turn out if the jeans have a crotch seam and unfold them so that the side seams are in the middle and the crotch seams are on the sides. From above we draw straight lines as in the figure. We sew the seams. Then we customize the figure.
You can also sew canvases from stripes cut from several pairs of jeans. Then, from these canvases, sew a dress.
An interesting dress or cape made of jeans, made using the patchwork method.
The combination of jeans with another fabric will look original.
From one pair of jeans you can sew such a sundress.
To do this, open the middle and step seams. Draw lines as in the photo. Cut along these lines. These pieces will be the middle seams of the front and back. The belt will be at the bottom of the sundress. You can add fabric in the middle.
You can also safely combine different colors of jeans, do not process the armholes and the neck of the dress, make scuffs.
Did you know that you can make a lot of useful things from old jeans for home, children, gifts for friends, etc. Let's see what original ideas you can bring to life with your own hands.
Every modern person knows such a wardrobe item as jeans. Looking in the closet, you will surely find a couple of denim items that are not used for their intended purpose. From them you can independently make a variety of interior items and more. "Cross" has prepared some ideas for you. Get creative and give old jeans a new life.
Denim interior
So what to do with old jeans? Let's start with the interior of your house or apartment. by the most easy option is, of course, creation. The design can be both the simplest and with decorative elements.
Jeans can also be used in the design of your workplace. A good solution to using jeans pockets is to make a wall organizer for storing various tools and stationery. Pockets can be sewn different ways: vertically, horizontally, chaotically or systematically.
You can also make desktop organizers using thick boxes as a basis. Again, the design is up to you!
Knitters and embroiderers will love these fun baskets for yarn, knitting needles and floss:
If you have a "large stock" of unnecessary denim items, then feel free to make denim furniture! You can start with a simple pouf or, and end with a whole sofa! The main thing here is inspiration and a furniture stapler)
Such updating of furniture will not require cash costs.
You can continue the denim interior with a stylish carpet.
And these can be placed in the bedroom by the bed or in the bathroom.
Jeans have a place in the kitchen. Sew cute mouse gloves, napkins with a cozy cutlery pocket, make hot coasters, and your kitchen will sparkle with “denim” colors.
For giving
The long-awaited summer is coming soon. Let's see what to sew from old jeans for a summer residence. A little effort and jeans turn into a great hammock!
Would you like to be alone? Quickly sew a denim screen and create your own corner in the garden. Pockets are useful for a book or magazine.
For a picnic, sew a denim rug or a lovely tablecloth with pockets for napkins and cutlery.
For gardening, denim aprons come in handy with plenty of pockets for tools or seed bags.
So that the tools of your husband, dad or grandfather are not lost, sew similar covers for them from their own jeans)
Old country stools can be easily updated with denim covers.
Jeans clothing
Now let's talk about reworking old jeans into new wardrobe items. Devote the evening to your jeans and voila! A new chic summer skirt is ready.
And from strips of denim, you can sew a sundress for trips to the river.
Adding a bright border to jeans, you get an elegant apron.
Well, for super-creative needlewomen we demonstrate such a miracle of cutting and sewing.
Jeans shoes
Not only clothes, but also shoes can be made using old jeans: from indoor slippers to boots! In this case, in addition to jeans, you will need ready-made soles.
Jeans for fashionistas
All kinds of decorations
We did not bypass lovers of various jewelry and prepared a selection of ideas: collars, butterflies, headbands, hair clips, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings. All this is made from jeans with the addition of various beads, buttons, metal fittings, etc. Stock up on inspiration and create beauty!
Bags and handbags
There are never too many bags! Therefore, hurry up to create a couple of new handbags from unnecessary jeans for the upcoming summer. As always, there are many options from simple to complex: with embroidery with threads and ribbons, with beaded handles, with various belts and chains, with fabric applications and much, much more ...
