How to Cut Jeans into Cut-Off Shorts

If you've ever been looking for jean shorts only to come up "short", why not cut a pair yourself? If you find a great fitting pair of jeans you are willing to make into shorts, here is how to do it easily!

Instructions

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.

Tips & Warnings

• If you do not want fraying, cut your jeans at least an inch longer than desired to have enough fabric to sew a hem.

• Many people the will fold jeans from left to right to cut and that creates an uneven line.