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How to Make Your Own Designer Jeans

Would you like to own a pair of designer jeans but can't afford to pay designer prices? Follow these instructions to make your won pair of stylishly ripped and faded jeans. Buy a pair of inexpensive new jeans, or use a pair that you already own. Find the direction of the line in the denim fabric, and rub a knife back and forth in the opposite direction. You can also use a cheese grater or a nail file. Keep rubbing until white threads appear. If you want the white threads to stay there, don't cut them. Dip an old toothbrush into bleach, and run the old toothbrush around the edges of the back pokets and over the belt loops. Mix a little bleach with water in a spray bottle, and spray the thighs and seat of the jeans. Rub sandpaper on the hems of the legs to fray them, and rip on corner of a back poket. Wash and dry the jeans several times after your new jeans will look stylishly old!