Another Little job that has been waiting around for me to complete for a few weeks now was altering this pair of Topshop jeans.
These were a great pair of high waisted jeans, that over a few years lost quite a lot of stretch in the waistband. This led them to be super baggy and not very flattering to wear. I finally got round to doing it.
Here's how.
These are what the jeans loo like now. I wasn't going to take a picture of what they looked like before, not the most flattering. I began by separating the waistband from the legs about 3" long at each side seam. While wearing the jeans I pinned them to get an idea of how much I needed to take out.
I then transferred this through to the inside and pinned the line that I would sew.
As you can see here, after I stitched the side seams the waistband is much bigger than the legs. If you were altering something with a simple waistband that is easy to put on and off you could take the whole thing off, make it smaller and put it back on again. But with the button and button hole, I decided to alter the waistband instead (The lazy option!)
I turned the waistband inside out and took the same amount out of it as did the side seams.
Before I stitched the waistband back on, I cut down and over-locked the extra seam allowance that I now had.
I stitched the waistband back on.
Super easy and saves me having to buy a new pair of jean. Now I can finally wear these great jeans again.
