How to Cut Jeans into Cut-Off Shorts
- 1). Find a great fitting pair of jeans! If you love the style and can't bear to part with them, make sure you buy another pair for use as long jeans.
- 2). Decide how short you want the shorts. Put on the jeans and mark where you'd like to cut them with a pen or marker.
- 3). Take off the jeans. Using a flexible measuring tape, measure from the inseam (crotch of the jeans) to the mark you made. Note the measurement.
- 4). Once you have the measurement. Lie the pants flat on a hard surface. When you fold them, fold as if you were creating a crease in the front.
- 5). Look for the mark you initially and use the measuring tape to make sure that the length is what you want. Now take a yardstick, hold against the jeans and make a long line with a marker according to your notations. Cut the pant leg.
- 6). Turn the jeans to the other side and repeat step 5.
- 7). Try the jeans on to make sure they are they way you like them.
- 8). Place the jeans in the washing machine, then dry in the dryer for a cool frayed look.
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