too new new jeans

[crisgal]

my teenage son has some favourite jeans. The kind that look old and worn, but are actually new. He loves them and wears them continually. I have bought him two pairs of jeans from asda but he's not keen on them.
I told him we could age them and make them look "cool" or "bad" or whatever the latest terminology is!
But now I don't know how to do it! Can I just slit them with a knife? Will bleaching work? I vaguely remember doing something similar in my youth but can't remember how!!

[boobesque]

pumice stones are what my mum used on mine years ago, they fade the colour and you can also rub a hole with them, looks more authentic than knife slits, or check out the gap sale as they do new, 1 year wash, 5 year, 7 year and 10 year jeans, made to look different ages.

[crisgal]

i wouldn't have thought about pumice boobesque, thanks.

[sophie_1003]

a friend of mine used a cheesegrater on his jeans

[tingirl]

Try sandpaper too & then washing them high heat..

[loukr]

Hi crisgal, try these sites:

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Distressed-Jeans

http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-Your-Own-Jeans

it's also best to plan where the rips etc will be, so draw out a basic jean shape on some paper, marking where the knee etc is, and draw in holes, rips, slashes bleached spots.

Also, check out websites with ready-to-buy distressed jeans to see which ones look best and where the rips look good!

Hope this helped, Lou xx

[loukr]

ooh and also, try different techniques on an old pair of jeans that you don't wear anymore to test out what looks good, it's a good idea to do this before getting carried away on your son's nice new jeans and then realising either the hole's gone wrong OR there's no denim left! xx