How to decorate jeans?

Every modern person in the wardrobe has at least one pair of jeans trousers, because these are really the most comfortable clothes for everyday use. Fashion trends are constantly changing, therefore, the style of this clothing also acquires some new features and features with every season. Once flared jeans were worn, today there are more narrowed, cropped and decorated models. The most popular modern jewelry of these products are beads, holes, rhinestones and embroidery. And the more decor on the jeans, the more expensive they cost. Naturally, not everyone can afford such novelties, but everyone would like to wear such fashionable and stylish things. Therefore, today we will learn how to decorate jeans with our own hands, so as not to overpay the extra money. Of course, not everyone has sufficient needlework skills, but there are some decor ideas that can be implemented on one’s own, even without them.

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How to decorate jeans with lace on your own?

You can make your own jeans decor with the help of an original and beautiful lace. If, for example, your old pants are torn or short, you can trim them and make shorts, and then decorate them beautifully. Moreover, no one will even guess that you did it all yourself. There are several options for decorating with lace, and now we will consider them in detail.

Lace pockets decoration:

1. You need to take jeans or shorts that have pockets on the back.
2. Depending on the color of the product itself, it is necessary to choose a shade of lace. It is desirable that they be transparent, but the main thing is to include your own imagination and not be afraid to experiment.
3. Now take a transparent film or a plastic bag, attach it to your pocket and circle it around the contour.
4. Then cut the lace on this stencil so that they resemble a pocket in shape.
5. In the store you need to buy a special glue web. It is with its help that the lace is glued to the pockets, you just need to iron them on top with an iron.

Dressing lace ripped jeans

You can get a beautiful jeans design if you use lace in a contrasting shade:

• If initially there were no holes in them, you can make them yourself. And for this you need to cut the pants in those places where you planned to insert lace with scissors.

Important! Cuts can be made not only in the form of geometric shapes, but also in the form of stars and hearts. The guipure looks gorgeous on the lap.

• You can also create a transparency effect, that is, rub the material itself with a razor or grater. It is a great idea to interpret this kind of jewelry.
• Then you should sew the lace on the inside, so they will hide the holes as clearly as possible.

Important! In this case, a cobweb can also help if you do not want to mess with a sewing machine.

How to decorate clothes on the sides with lace?

How to decorate jeans with your own hands if they have no pockets or holes? Very simple! There are two options:

• You can glue or sew the guipure from top to bottom along the side seams. Here everything will depend on your ideas, shape, design and format of the lace.

Important! White decor will be great to combine with light blue jeans. But black lace - on the contrary, will originally complement the dark models of clothing.

• Side seams can be spaced a couple of centimeters below.Then, gently outline the edges under the arc and cut off. Laces are sewn in this case from the inside. But before that, you need to process the bottom, which was trimmed.

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Dressing jeans with rhinestones

Now we will get acquainted with another fashion trend and consider how to decorate jeans with rhinestones. So that everything works out efficiently and quickly, it is better to buy hot fix rhinestones. They are glued to the fabric with an iron. Moreover, this method is also considered the most reliable. You can also decorate things with rhinestones in different ways in the form of a picture, along the contour and even arbitrarily, so it will be appropriate to familiarize yourself with each option separately.

Decor with rhinestones in the form of a picture

Perhaps you have already seen similar models somewhere, or you have your favorite cartoon character, animal or figure, and you want to bring this idea to life on your favorite pants, then for a start you will need to make a stencil.

You need to draw your drawing with a chalk or pencil. Then lay the pebbles strictly along the lines received. It remains only to walk on top of them with an iron.

Important! Here already decide for yourself whether you will decorate only the edges of the picture or lay out rhinestones and its inner part.

Contour Decoration

You can spread purchased rhinestones along the contours. For example, along the contour of a belt, pockets, side seam or bottom of trousers. You don’t have to draw anything here. The pebbles are simply laid out at the seams at the desired interval, then glued.

Important! The design of rhinestones of different sizes and colors looks quite original.

Custom layout

In this section, we will look at how to update old jeans with shiny and shimmering rhinestones in the sun in any order. There are two options for this decoration:

• You can decorate dark blue or black pants with rhinestones laid out in the form of sun rays.
• Imitation of web or starry sky on fabric.

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Beading jeans pants

You can also decorate jeans with your own hands using beads in the form of pearls. By the way, now such jewelry is at the peak of popularity. The main thing is not to sew large beads on the back pockets, because they are quite fragile and can easily be deformed:

• You can originally twist the product from the bottom and decorate with such beautiful details. To make it easier to work, you can make small marks with a pencil at the place of attachment of the beads, so as not to overdo it with their number and not to overload the jeans with decor.
• High-rise models can be decorated with pearls on the belt, which will be visible if you tuck a blouse or shirt inside. To do this, it is better to buy colorful parts, so that the decoration looks more stylish and bright.

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Popular options for decorating old jeans

In addition to the above methods of decorating this wardrobe item, there are several quite successful and original options. Do-it-yourself jeans decoration today is often done with all kinds of stripes, appliqués, drawings, even artificially created spots. And now in more detail.

Decorating with drawings

DIY drawings on jeans can be done using prints. It can be various figures and plants, even portraits. It looks very nice and small individual drawings, and decoration with several pictures with a small interval. Separately, you can place drawings with small and large plants, leaves and flowers around the edges. Using the illustration, you can completely color the product.

In order not to bother much, you can buy ready-made stencils or print a picture from the Internet and cut it out, and then circle it on the fabric with chalk.

Important! The cheapest and easiest idea is to translate the pattern through the lace with the most common marker for working with fabrics. And so that the picture does not slip, you must first attach it with a pin. Color patterns are created using aerosols and acrylics through a stencil.

Jeans Appliques

A great option for decorating is an application for jeans with your own hands.Perhaps you have pants in the closet that you don’t wear due to deformation, for example, tearing them in a very visible place or accidentally staining them with resistant paint. Re-breathing life into them is easy! It is necessary to take a piece of colorful and bright fabric, sew it to this place. You can run them in the form of patches and geometric shapes.

Patches as decoration

In any fabric and accessories store you can buy ready-made, original, beautiful and interesting stripes for jeans. It is very simple to attach them to the fabric with your own hands - in this case either a needle with threads or the previously mentioned adhesive mesh will help. The principle of working with them is quite simple. The patch is placed on the fabric in the right place and is attached to it by one of the proposed methods.

How to decorate jeans with scuffs and whitening?

You still have not decided how to decorate ripped jeans with your own hands, having considered all of the above options? Then, perhaps, you will like options such as whitening and scuffing:

• In the case of whitening, you need to be extremely careful, because the result can be quite unpredictable. You just need to wash your pants in water, into which the clarifying agent is added beforehand. Or spray bleach jeans in a chaotic manner.
• Scuffs also have not gone out of fashion for a long time. But the main thing is not to overdo it. To make them, you will need the most ordinary sandpaper or a hard-coated file. Just lay the jeans on the floor and rub them well in the right places.

Everything is ready!

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In this article, we have offered you many different ideas on how to decorate jeans. We hope that among them you noted for yourself a really convenient and effective option, therefore, already in the process of decorating your pants.