Video: Your Jeans Are Now Bell Bottoms

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Strut into the 70s with bell bottom flares! Learn how to inspect the final product when converting jeans into bell bottoms in this free clothing alteration video.

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smilingwoman Dec 29, 2009
Came across this series b just in time to make bell-bottom jeans for a 1970's New Years Eve party! Thank you Melina Piroso!
smilingwoman Dec 29, 2009
Came across this series b just in time to make bell-bottom jeans for a 1970's New Years Eve party! Thank you Melina Piroso!

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Hi, I'm Melina Piroso and welcome to Expert Village. In this series we're going to talk about turning regular, boring old jeans into funky bell bottoms. So the final step of the bell bottom project is to flip them inside-out and inspect the outer edges of your sewing. Once we have sewn around the hem of our bell, you want to make sure that you have everything sewn everything correctly. So, kind of check along all of the edges, make sure everything is perfect, and you've checked to see that everything is even, that it is not pulling or puckering in any area. We're going to go ahead and flip our bell bottoms to how they normally should hang. And you want to check along the sides of your bell. If you pull slightly and you see a whole bunch of thread that means that you did not sew it correctly. That means that you're going to have to take a seam ripper and you're going to have to pull out all of that thread and you're going to have to re-sew it. Because if you don't, eventually it's going to unravel. Make sure that your seam is, you know, relatively even and your hem is even. So here we have our completed bell bottoms. We have taken regular, ordinary, boring, eighties-looking jeans and we have made them a more interesting style. Bell bottoms never really go out of style, you know, they're kind of sixties and seventies inspired but you could get away with it now. And you can see here our two triangles that we put in on each side. And again the importances of making sure that you do, do both sides. Because, like I had explained at the beginning, if you only do one side, which a lot of people do, you end up with kind of a weird look. You know, it kind of just pokes out this way. So it's really nice to do both sides, and then you can decorate them in any way that you see fit, these are just some home-made patches and you can add patches, you can do a screen print, you can do anything that makes them interesting.

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Your Jeans Are Now Bell Bottoms

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