Denim pants that are practical and fashionable at all times are an indispensable item in any wardrobe. It is only a pity that the cotton material is strongly stretched, as a result of which the product loses its shape and attractive appearance. How to wash jeans so that they sit down, and at the same time not spoil completely? There are tricks that allow you to narrow your pants by one or even two sizes. The choice of method depends on the type of jeans, color fastness, and the reaction of the fabric to high temperatures.

Types and features of denim

The need to "plant" jeans arises for many reasons:

• A person can suddenly lose weight and, having thrown off a couple of kilograms, notice that the panties are too big, hang out a bit - and tightening the belt can not fix the situation.
• Denim contains a large percentage of cotton, so it absorbs moisture well and conducts air. This determines the comfort of the product. However, like any other cotton, the fabric quickly stretches during wear, and there is a desire to reduce the width of the pants.
• It happens that expensive jeans, a hundred times tried on in the store, in fact turned out to be great.

In these situations, you can reduce the product by one size yourself by washing, drying, boiling and other ways of influencing the fabric. If the pants are large in two or three sizes, you have to grab the needle.

Varieties of denim

The first jeans were released in the mid-19th century. Pants, jackets and shirts sewn from dense coarse cotton of indole color were used as work clothes. Today, textile workers produce several types of denim, which differ in the technology of production and dyeing, appearance, methods of care, price.

• Denim  - high quality material made from raw materials collected on plantations in Mexico, Barbados and Zimbabwe. The front side of the fabric is blue, the wrong side is white. Denim jeans cost several thousand, but the quality is worth the price. Such pants sit like a glove, clearly fitting the contours of the figure. They can be washed in water heated to 90 degrees, dried in a typewriter or in the sun - the fabric will only become stronger.
• Jean - cheap soft cotton denim fabric of low quality, fully dyed in one color. Used for sewing budget clothes. The material is difficult to shrink. If the product is washed in hot water, the fabric will become rougher and shrink a little, but will soon restore its texture and the pants will stretch again. With shrinkage, not only the volume, but also the length of the product will decrease.
• Stretch  - extremely elastic fabric, from which narrow tight-fitting jeans models are sewn. The flexibility of the initially coarse denim is given by the lycra fibers that make up the weft threads. Stretched stretch pants look unaesthetically pleasing. To return the product to its original appearance, it is necessary to wash them in hot water in manual mode and dry them in the sun.
• Chambray  - light thin cotton from which summer shirts, dresses, tunics are sewn. The density of this type of fabric is half that of classic denim. Things from Chambray are short-lived, quickly torn and wiped, rarely survive until the new season. After washing or boiling, the chambray trousers tighten very long and wide.

Before experimenting with jeans, trying to reduce their size using hand or automatic washing, soaking or boiling, you need to study the composition of the material from which the product is made, and the manufacturer's care instructions. It’s not worth checking on expensive pants if they will sit down after washing - this way you can ruin the product forever.

Jeans shrink methods

Enterprising housewives came up with and tried a lot of ways to reduce excessively stretched jeans.

It is known that with a sharp temperature drop, natural fibers are greatly reduced. Wool, cotton, silk, linen will inevitably sit down after washing. And if you lower the product alternately in hot water, then in cold water, you can easily reduce jeans by 1-2 sizes.

Hand wash

Hand wash is the safest gentle technique for shrinking jeans. It is used for clothing made from stretch or chambry.

In order for a thing to shrink in size and forever retain a new look, the following work must be done:

1. For half an hour immerse the product in hot water (+ 60 ° C).
2. Wash denim trousers or shorts as usual, adding a little powder.
3. Rinse in very cold (preferably icy) water. To achieve a sharp drop in water temperature, you can pour ice from the freezer into the basin.

Dry the product on a horizontal surface in a ventilated area.

Machine wash

The method of shrinking jeans using a washing machine is suitable for durable fabrics, in which cotton occupies more than 70%. If it's synthetics or thin summer jeans, pants can stretch even further.

Wash the product as follows:

1. Set the maximum possible water temperature (+ 90 ° C).
2. Add gel and fabric softener to the detergent drawer.
3. Launch the cotton wash program.
4. Drying is best in an automatic dryer at maximum temperature. If this is not possible, jeans are hung on the street in a sunny place.

Slightly wet jeans so that they get a little hooked can be dried with an iron.

Hot water bath

To reduce the size of jeans, it is necessary to fill the bath with hot water and immerse the product in it in a flattened form. If you add gel or washing powder to the water, you can solve two problems at once: remove old pollution and reduce the size of your pants.

After washing, the dirty water is drained, and the jeans are rinsed without removing from the bath, and again filled with hot water. As soon as the water cools down, the thing is squeezed out and hung up to dry.

A simple and effective way to make jeans shrink is the alternation of cold and hot water. Pants are placed in a basin and filled with hot water. The water temperature should be as high as possible for the type of fabric from which the product is sewn. As soon as the water cools down a little, it is poured out and the basin is filled with cold. The procedure is repeated 5-7 times.

Boiling

Pure dense cotton can be boiled. The boiling method is suitable for denim and gin jeans.

After boiling on the denim, chaotically located stains and whitish spots appear. Lovers of plain and black jeans will obviously not like this treatment.

To weld the pants so that they become smaller, you can do this:

1. Turn the product inside out.
2. Boil water in a large saucepan and immerse the jeans in boiling water.
3. Cook over medium heat for half an hour.
4. Using special forceps, get out the product, wait until it cools down and hang it to dry.

Digesting fabrics with a high synthetic content is not recommended.

Shrink exactly in shape

An extreme way for those who want to narrow their jeans so that they sit like a glove. The essence of the method is as follows: put on pants and sit in a bath with hot water.

When the water has cooled, you can get out of the bath, but the torment does not end there, as now you have to dry your jeans on yourself without taking off. This is best done in a sunny meadow, substituting either one side or the other for warm drying under warm rays.

Decrease a specific area

Often jeans are stretched only in some places, for example, knees or a belt. In this case, it is not necessary to wash the entire product. To return the deformed fibers to their previous appearance by local processing. To do this, pour warm water mixed with air conditioning into the sprayer and spray it onto the problem area, trying to wet the fabric through and through. Then wet places are dried using an iron or an automatic dryer. When drying in the usual way, this effect is not achieved.

Proper drying methods

The faster the washed product dries, the more likely it is to decrease in size. The fact is that with conventional drying, which lasts more than 10 hours, the fibers have time to straighten and fully recover. With quick drying, there is a sharp reduction in the fibers and the space between the threads without the possibility of recovery.

Dry clothes prepared for shrinkage as follows:

• to hang near heating radiators or stoves, and in the summer - in a sunny place;
• for greater effect, place a fabric under the product that absorbs moisture well;
• use a tumble dryer.

So that the pants do not sit in length during drying, they are hung on clothespins.

Sewing Options

If the jeans are stretched so that none of the shrinkage methods gave the desired result, there remains a win-win option - to sew the product on the sides or along the middle seam. You can also remove a few centimeters in the belt, make tucks, narrow the legs and much more. A person with minimal sewing skills can easily cope with this task. There is an easier option, but more expensive - contact the nearest atelier and instruct professionals to remake the trousers.

There are some nuances and limitations in washing with the aim of shrinkage, observing which, you can not only reduce the size of the product, but also maintain its respectable appearance:

• you can not boil and intensively wash jeans decorated with embroidery, rhinestones, lace;
• with a decrease in the width of the trousers, the length of the product will also become smaller;
• jeans made of stretch material should be taken one size smaller;
• so that the jeans do not stretch, you need to choose high-quality denim or gin and follow the washing and drying rules indicated on the label.

If your favorite jeans are very stretched, and there is no desire or opportunity to buy new ones, you can try to revive the thing using the above methods. In case of failure, we can only rely on the services of the studio.

Sometimes buying jeans brings joy first, and then disappointment: the pants are stretched and become out of size. How to wash jeans so that they sit down is a simple question. It is only important to understand the types of denim, study the precautions and - go ahead, save your favorite thing! Even an inexperienced hostess will cope with the procedure for reducing jeans at home.

Why is a procedure needed?

Why reduce jeans if there is enough choice in clothing stores? Firstly, not all of us are perfect, and it is often a big problem to choose pants according to your figure. Now it’s wide in the belt, now in the lower leg it’s narrow, and you have to hem it, it’s necessary to remove the length. Thanks to the special washing conditions, you can adjust your favorite model for yourself.

Secondly, not all types of denim are durable. It is necessary to reduce the size of the pants if they are stretched. The product itself looks good, it emphasizes the figure, only elongated knees spoil everything. Someone does not want to splurge on new pants every time there is a problem of pulling old ones. And the procedure will help those who have dramatically lost weight.

At home, you can make things smaller by one size with just one wash. It is unlikely to reduce the thing by 2 sizes, in such cases it is better to resort to a sewing machine.

Types of denim

Jeans are different: black, white, wide and narrowed, expensive and not very. It is the type of fabric that affects the price tag of the product and the way it cares:

1. Classic Denim Jeans  - Not the most budget purchase. But such pants will serve faithfully for several years. How to determine if real denim? It is made by interlacing two threads, and it always has a white seamy side. Denim material is cotton from Mexico, Barbadoss or Zimbabwe. The exceptional properties of such a fabric are that the product sits clearly on the figure, as if it were sewn to order by individual standards. Such jeans are unlikely to have to be washed in order to reduce.
2. Jeans are made from Indian and Asian cotton. Such products are cheaper than real denim, but can also be of different densities. A good jeans is tight enough, wiped on the knees. Do such jeans sit down? Depends on the material. Asian jeans are difficult to shrink. After washing, it coarsens and decreases slightly, but soon recovers in size. You should be especially careful when using jeans made of Indian cotton: it is thinner than Asian and fleecy to the touch. If such a product shrinks, then in all directions. Not only the width of the belt will change, but also the length and volume of the legs.
3. Stretch jeans are sewn from natural fabric with the addition of synthetics - lycra. Such products fit the figure well, but they are not so easy to plant using conventional methods. If the product is stretched, the shrink procedure will last a maximum of a couple of days, and then the panties will return to their original form.
4. "Summer" jeans - so thin material that fully lives up to its name. Some things can not be carried and the season. They are called jeans conditionally: in fact, it is cotton dyed under jeans (cotton), which, by interweaving threads, does not look like a real jeans. A thin product is quickly wiped, and it is extremely undesirable to wash it in hot water or boil it: the fabric will definitely sit down and will no longer stretch.

Important
  Remember: not observing the precautionary measures, you risk spoiling the product. Do all manipulations with caution, ask experienced friends for advice.

Reduce Jeans: Machine Washable

The method is suitable for products made from natural fabric: real denim and jeans. The composition should be, if not 100, then at least 70-80 percent of cotton. Durable and dense fabric washing in the washing machine does not cause much harm. But products with synthetic fabric components are not recommended to be washed in this way: they will stretch even more or sit so that they completely lose their shape.

Despite the fact that denim is highly durable, the shrinkage procedure should not be abused. Jeans from frequent washing will fade and lose their presentation.

Tip
  So that expensive jeans do not turn into clothes for a summer residence, give them rest, that is, wash in a gentle mode at low temperatures.

Denim may contain a small percentage of synthetics. This complicates the shrinkage procedure. What to make such pants shrink? Wash them intensively at a temperature of 80-90 degrees, use the accelerated spin. You can plant jeans if you wash them this way several times without putting them on.

The author of the site "Miss Clean" recommends testing things from real denim. First you need to wash the jeans in hot water, but not for long. Choose the express mode of the washing machine, that is, up to 30 minutes. If nothing happened to the product, you can experiment on a large scale.

Handwash

A safer way. To make jeans smaller, follow these steps:

1. Soak them in very hot water for 20-30 minutes. Be careful not to burn yourself!
2. To rinse, use very cold water. Such a "contrast shower" will make jeans already. Just move your pants from cold water to hot water several times.
3. If time permits, you can soak the product overnight in cold water, and wash in the morning in hot.
4. Squeeze the jeans well.
5. Dry them on a horizontal surface.

A fun way: jeans will sit if you take a bath in the bathtub right in them! After bathing, rinse your pants and dry.

Instead of washing your pants, you can weld them, as women did in Soviet times. This procedure is guaranteed to reduce the size of the item, but also affect its color. If you like blue-gray stains and a boiled-in shade, then feel free to proceed. If not, the method does not suit you.

1. Take a large pot and fill it with water.
2. How to cook jeans? Add detergent: powder or regular soap. The solution should be saturated.
3. Put the clothes in a saucepan, bring to a boil and simmer for about half an hour. Bonus: thanks to such washing, you can not only reduce the size of the product, but also get rid of old pollution.

Tip
  To avoid the appearance of strong divorces, turn the thing inside out.

Dry correctly

Jeans can also sit down after normal washing if they are properly dried. The main thing is to reduce the drying time. If the thing dries for a long time, then the fibers of the fabric have time to straighten out. Do this:

• place the washed clothes near a heat source: batteries, stoves, or simply lay them out on the street so that the sun's rays fall on it;
• put a terry cloth under the product that absorbs moisture well;
• use an automatic dryer.

To prevent a thing from burning out from the sun, dry it by turning inside out. If the pants are dried on a cloth, take one that is not a pity, because jeans can fade. When drying on a battery, it is also recommended to lay a thin cloth so that no dirty yellow stains remain on the product. To reduce only the width of the trousers, hang them on clothespins for drying. Self-gravity will not allow them to become shorter.

1. Do not boil or wash at high temperatures things decorated with rhinestones and lace. The decor will definitely suffer.
2. It should be understood that after the procedure, not only the width will change, but also the length of the trousers. If you buy a thing a size larger, then take with a margin of length.
3. If the item is stretched in certain places and begins to shine, for example, on the knees, wipe them with a swab dipped in liquid ammonia, then apply gruel from these detergents and only then wash in the usual way.
4. Sometimes it is advised to take stretch jeans one size smaller, because they quickly stretch. However, too narrow pants do not allow the skin to breathe, squeeze blood vessels. Make smart choices; don't get too skinny jeans. You can buy new ones if the old ones are stretched. But health will not be harmed.
5. The product may fade a lot. Be careful not to get dirty gray pants instead of bright blue ones.
6. What to do so that the jeans do not stretch as long as possible? First rule: buy high-quality denim or jeans. And if you liked the thin synthetic pants, then strictly follow the care rules indicated on the label. If the stretch jeans are stretched, then they can no longer return to their original shape.

If the product has become out of size or has lost its attractiveness, do not despair! Arm yourself with our tips and try to bring products back to life.

Jeans are simply impossible not to love, given all their advantages. They are appropriate in most situations, comfortable to wear, universally combined with other clothes and perfectly emphasize the figure. Although the last point is sometimes disappointing. High-quality, properly tailored jeans sit perfectly, emphasizing all the bends of the body. But they retain this property only the first time after purchase. The insidious thing is that the better jeans sit - the more often you want to wear them, and the more often jeans are worn - the faster they stretch. And now, after a few times, their fit is different from the original one, and the trousers are no longer so tight on their hips.

In fact, stretching is a normal property of denim and other cotton fabrics. Their fibers are flexible enough to elongate with regular tension. For this reason, clothing manufacturers and experienced shoppers are advised to buy jeans one size smaller than yours. If in the dressing room you barely managed to fasten the zipper on the fly and at the same time it was necessary to pull your stomach in just to hold your breath, it means that in a couple of days, a maximum of a week, these pants will sit back to back, not at all hanging out, but not at all without restricting movements. Jeans, immediately bought in size, after the same time will stretch and will never please you with a narrow silhouette.

How to reduce jeans
Jeans that are improperly selected or stretched in the process of wearing, do not rush to give to a more complete girlfriend. She will certainly be glad of such a gift, but you yourself can still wear them. Especially when it comes to an expensive thing, which, in general, suits everyone, except for a larger size than necessary. You can fit it according to the figure in one of these ways:

1. Wash jeans  - This is the easiest method to make them already, which we all regularly check in practice. Surely you noticed that freshly washed clothes are harder to pull and fasten. On jeans, this rule is especially pronounced. Washing can eliminate elongated knees, extended hips - however, only temporarily. After a couple of days of active wear, the trousers return to their previous appearance. To prolong the “diminishing” effect of washing, use hot water. Handwashing for performance differs little from a machine, because its main action is to wet the fibers of the fabric. But in the washer you can set the temperature up to 90 degrees and a high speed of rotation of the drum, and this is preferable in our case. After intense spinning, the jeans will become one or two sizes smaller, possibly even smaller than they were at the time of purchase. But be prepared for the fact that you will have to repeat the washing soon, because again they will stretch faster than they can get dirty.
   
2. "Weld" jeans by the same technology that our grandmothers boiled underwear. Put your pants in a volumetric pan or metal basin with a lid, completely fill with water and dissolve the detergent in it. The powder should be sufficient so that the solution is concentrated. Things that have gone through this procedure for 20-30 minutes usually come in a couple of sizes. But at the same time, a side effect is manifested: the jeans turn pale with uneven spots, acquiring a fashionable "cooked" look. If you like it, then it is considered a bonus to shrinkage, if not, then choose another method of reducing trousers.
   
3. Dry jeans  after washing, it is also possible so that they sit down. The first way is to hang the jeans on a rope near a source of hot air after a strong spin, almost without straightening. During the evaporation of the moisture remaining in the fabric, the pants will tighten and become smaller. The second way: to dry wrung jeans on a towel or other cloth that absorbs water well. The third method of drying involves the use of an automatic dryer. This device is able to make the fabric run together while maintaining the shape of the clothes. You can find such a device in laundries or purchased at a hardware store.
   
4. Redraw jeans  - A radical way that will definitely help if the previous ones were useless. The easiest way to take a thing to the workshop, but you can cope on your own, if you have at least the basic skills of cutting and sewing. The specific actions depend on the style of the trousers and the features of your figure. For example, it is enough to unfasten the belt, shorten it and sew it back so that the jeans again hold well on the waist. But if the pants are too big and hang out noticeably on you, you will have to redo them completely. To do this, spread all the side seams and, if necessary, a step seam. Remove the thread remaining from the previous seams, and iron the parts obtained. By your own standards or by attaching jeans that suit you, make markings with a pen or a special tailor's chalk. Chip the parts together. Do not rush to make a durable stitch, first sweep the reduced jeans and carefully try them on. If the new size suits you, you can safely sew jeans. True, most simple household sewing machines cannot make a special “jeans” seam, so the updated thing will be not so much jeans in the direct sense, as trousers made of denim. But in this way, you can at the same time adjust their style: narrow the legs below, shorten them and / or get rid of the flare.
   
5. To suture it’s possible not just any jeans, but only sewn from quite thin denim. As in the previous case, it is better to use a sewing machine, because even the most delicate denim is characterized by a density of weaving. Depending on where exactly the empty space and excess tissue formed, the method of reducing trousers is chosen. If they hang on the buttocks - then the inguinal suture should be reduced. If empty at the level of the hips - you have to narrow at the side seams. If excess space has formed along the entire length of the leg, then it is most effective to make a new step seam. But in any case, where and in what quantity you would not sew jeans, do not rush to trim fabric allowances. Do this only after trying on a thing with new seams, and it will suit you in size. But do not forget that suturing can not only reduce jeans, but also distort their style. Be prepared for the fact that with new seams, the trousers will look different not only in terms of tightness, but also in shape.
   

Tips & Tricks
It is not difficult to fit jeans that are too big in shape. But, being deceived by the apparent simplicity of this process, one can accidentally hopelessly ruin a thing. Therefore, consider the following nuances:

1. When washing, boiling, spinning and drying, jeans are reduced not only in volume, but also in length. Therefore, these shrinkage methods are suitable for wide pants, but are not recommended for those whose legs are not much lower than the ankle bones. Otherwise, you will get out of the car not only narrow, but also too short pants, which you will have to give to the child or younger sister.
   
2. Washing in hot water can be used only if your fabric of your jeans is completely cotton, contains at least 70% cotton in the composition and / or is very stretched. Synthetic fibers, in particular lycra, can, when heated in very hot water, behave unpredictably, deform, stretch, etc.
   
3. If you don’t want to wash jeans too often, don’t wear them every day and give them the opportunity to “relax”, then they will not stretch so quickly. And in general, if you like trousers to sit on you “wrapped,” give preference to more dense, but at the same time stretch fabrics. Loose denim with holes and a worn effect stretches much faster compared to them, as intended by the manufacturers.
   

To part with your favorite jeans, if you noticeably lost weight or just stretched them, is absolutely necessary. But, having tried all the listed ways to reduce the thing, do not be discouraged if none of them helped to return the pants to their original appearance. Firstly, slightly stretched jeans are much more comfortable than narrow ones and are now at the height of fashion. Secondly, the deformation of the old thing is a great reason to go to the store for a new one.

There are several effective ways to make the jeans sit down. But all of them are united by the use of high temperatures, as the main factor contributing to the reduction of trousers.

Denim Wash

To begin with, the product is hand-washed in the most hot water. You can just soak the product and leave it for 10-15 minutes until the water cools down. Having taken out a jeans product from a basin with water, it is transferred to the drum of an automatic machine and washed at maximum temperature. The program is chosen intended for crumpled things or for intensive washing. Washing in delicate or manual mode will be ineffective and will not give the desired result. Thanks to the effects of hot water and intense rotation of the drum, jeans will sit well.

Hand wash products in hot water

During washing in the machine it is allowed to add detergents habitual for the hostess. The powder will not affect the size reduction process in any way, and the conditioner will keep the material soft, which will not allow the product to become unpleasantly tough.

Drying things

If there is a dryer, then the task of reducing the product becomes much easier. After washing and rinsing, the jeans are transferred from the washing machine to the tumble dryer. The maximum possible temperature is also set here. Drying under these conditions will further reduce the size of the product. After the drying program, it is recommended to leave the product in the machine for 10-15 minutes. From this material will give even greater shrinkage. Thanks to the combined effects of hot water and high temperature in the dryer, jeans sit on one or even several sizes.

After this treatment, denim pants should not be hung out to dry in the air, since the achieved effect may partially disappear and they will again become a little stretched.

Denim pants should not be hung dry in the air, as the achieved effect may partially disappear

As a rule, a thing washed and dried as described above will decrease in size after the very first procedure. If the result is not satisfactory, then you can repeat the processing 1-2 more times. Quality things will not suffer from such intensive washing and drying, but cheaper clothes, which contain impurities, can be deformed and lose color. When the second wash and drying ends, the jeans are guaranteed to become smaller in size and sit exactly on the figure of a person.

In the absence of a dryer, you can go to the dry cleaner, where there are more powerful machines and installations.

Often, denim products are stretched in the waist so much that you have to wear a belt. Despite the fact that there are belts for every taste on sale, they are not always appropriate. For example, standing out under a tight jacket or sweater, the belt creates additional volume and makes the figure more bulky.

To seat a certain part of the thing, you will need to fill the atomizer with warm water with air conditioning in a 3: 1 ratio. After screwing the lid, the container is shaken vigorously so that the two liquids mix.

If you pour clean water into the spray bottle, then this will not help to reduce the size of the thing. Also, the absence of detergent will avoid the need to rinse the product so that after drying it does not form stains.

In order for the jeans to sit in the belt, you must perform the following sequence of actions:

1. spray mixed air conditioner with spray water onto the jeans belt. The fabric should be well-soaked and even wet. You can not worry about the dry part of the product, since it will not change in size.
2. Denim pants are placed in the dryer and include a program with maximum temperature.
3. From exposure to high temperatures, the fibers should sit well.
4. After the end of the program, the product is left in the switched off machine for another 10 minutes to achieve maximum effect.

The procedure can be repeated several times until the desired degree of shrinkage is achieved. With the subsequent wetting of the material, it is worth trying to apply more mixture from the spray gun. If after processing the fabric with a mixture of conditioner and water, leave the jeans to dry in the air, you should not expect any shrinkage effect.

There is a method of shrinking jeans, which allows you to give them a perfect size. Despite such a tempting advantage, the method has several significant disadvantages: it takes a lot of time, and can provoke uncomfortable sensations.

For this method, you need to wear a thing, fasten a zipper and buttons. So hot water is being drawn into the bathroom. how much a person can tolerate. There is absolutely no need to endure pain and earn a burn. It is enough to make hot, but quite comfortable water for humans. Her level should completely cover her legs and belt.

Before diving into the bath, you need to check the temperature with your hand. From barely warm water, the fibers will not decrease in size, and in too hot it is dangerous to sit. At the optimum temperature, slowly immerse yourself in water and stay in the bathroom until the water has cooled to room temperature.

The water level should completely cover the legs and belt

If you suddenly find that any part of the product is not completely immersed in water, you must immediately add hot water to shrink evenly.

Another inconvenience in this method is, during which the wet product must be constantly on the person. In wet jeans, you need to go out into the sun and turn from time to time so that the thing dries evenly on all sides. It is allowed to sit on a chair or lie down on a plastic sunbed. In no case should you settle down on a wooden bench or on other moisture-absorbing surfaces. The weather should be warm and calm so that the person does not catch a cold.

Having decided to use this particular method, it is best to carry out the above actions one or two days before the time when it was planned to put them on. After shrinkage measures, the clothes are carefully removed and folded. It is not recommended to wash things reduced in this way, so that they do not stretch again.

Things reduced in this way are not recommended to be washed, so that they do not stretch again

In order for jeans to lose color as little as possible, they must be completely turned inside out. This does not affect the degree of shrinkage. Newly bought dark-colored denim trousers are necessarily turned inside out. For light, thin products that have been worn for some time, this can not be done.

To jeans sat down from processing boiling water, you must do the following:

1. Fill a pot of sufficient size half or a little more with water.
2. Bring water to a boil over high heat so that constant large bubbles appear.
3. Jeans are dipped in boiling water with tongs and left to boil for 20-30 minutes. You don’t need to wear a cover.
4. Periodically, it is necessary to check that the material does not peek out from the boiling water, but is completely submerged.
5. After boiling, the jeans are pulled out and immediately transferred to the dryer.
6. At maximum temperature, the thing is dried until the moisture is completely removed from it.

Jeans are dipped in boiling water with tongs and left to boil for 20-30 minutes

It is best to remove the jeans from the dryer with forceps, as they will be very hot.

Many do not know what to do if jeans are stretched, and washing in hot water did not give the desired effect. In this case, you can try using an iron. To begin with, a jeans product is machine-washed at maximum temperature or boiled in a pan for 20 minutes. Both options have their advantages. For example, washing in a machine allows you to simultaneously clean the product from contaminants and reduce the size of the thing. Here it is allowed to add detergent and conditioner, as with regular washing. By boiling, a faster shrink effect is achieved. In addition, this method allows to achieve shrinkage of individual parts of jeans. If it is necessary to reduce only the belt of a thing, it is enough to immerse it in a pot of boiling water and wait 20 minutes.

If washing in hot water did not give the desired effect, you can try using an iron

After washing, the drying stage begins. To reduce the size of the item, the temperature of the dryer is set to the maximum level. Jeans must be completely dry or slightly damp before the ironing phase.

Before use. On the iron, the steam function must be turned off. The temperature on the appliance is set in accordance with the symbols on the clothing label. Then jeans are ironed until completely dry.

The ironing method will not fundamentally affect the size of the item, but in other cases it will help to slightly reduce the jeans and fit them to the desired size.

In situations where jeans are so large for a person that none of the methods of shrinkage helps, it is worth considering the option of buying a new product. If you don’t want to give up your favorite thing, you can go to clothing workshops and sew jeans to the right size.

Do not get upset when jeans are stretched. Thanks to washing in hot water or drying at high temperatures, it is possible to achieve a reduction in the size of the product and to continue to wear it with pleasure. Knowing a few simple rules and effective ways to wash jeans so that they sit down, you can avoid damage and deformation of the product, and prevent fading of the material.

Almost everyone has such an element of clothing as jeans. Such a thing is convenient, it is easy to choose a shirt, shirt or blouse for trousers, and also any shoes are suitable for them.

If the jeans are selected according to the figure, then they will hide all its flaws, while successfully emphasizing the merits. But sometimes in the process of wearing socks the pants lose their shape and stretch.

And here the question arises, what to do if your favorite jeans are stretched. In fact, there are enough ways to solve the problem.

How to reduce jeans by size at home

It is not necessary to part with your favorite thing or rush to the atelier in order to suture your trousers. You can try to return to their form on their own using one of these methods.

Jeans cooking

Not everyone will risk doing this, since the boiling procedure is unsafe for the fabric. You will need a pot of water and a detergent. You can use laundry detergent or add a lot of grated laundry soap.

• Boil the solution with the clothes on a low heat, for 1-1.5 hours.
• A significant minus of this method - jeans will lose their original color. Therefore, boiling is best used for very light trousers.
• Darker things can change color when boiled only in certain areas. It is possible that stains of blue or gray shades will appear on the surface.
• Also, do not boil jeans, if they are decorated with various decorative elements, they can come off.

How to wash old jeans so they sit if you can’t boil them? Refer to the following methods.

Dryer

To let the jeans sit down a little, you can send them to the dryer and set the most powerful mode.

From exposure to heat, the fabric sits in most cases and the jeans become smaller.

At what temperature should jeans be washed so they sit down

• To slightly reduce the size of the product will help washing at a high temperature in the machine. In this case, it is necessary to establish large revolutions, and then intense extraction.

This method is suitable for natural fabrics, in which cotton predominates, and its amount should be at least 70%.

• Such washing will only harm artificial tissues; they will stretch and lose their appearance.

Do not wash things in this way that are richly decorated with rhinestones, stones and delicate materials, such as ruffles. They will become worthless, and, moreover, will clog the machine. As a result, both trousers and the unit will be damaged.

Jeans made of high-quality and dense denim can be periodically washed in this way, but infrequently. With the regular use of such methods of shrinkage of things in the washing machine, the product will quickly become worthless.

How to wash your jeans so they sit down

Laundry is a proven method for years to reduce clothing size. Everyone knows that the washed thing is much more difficult to put on and fasten.

Washing helps to reduce jeans stretched on the hips and knitted fabric that has lost its shape. But the effect will be short-lived, and after a while the product will stretch again.

• In order to increase the effect of washing, use hot water.
• In terms of effectiveness, hand and machine washings are not the same, since in the washing machine you can increase the temperature to 90, which will make the fabric sit down. Thanks to the high temperatures and high speeds in the washing machine, jeans can be reduced to two sizes. When hand washing, use such hot water does not work.

It should be noted that the shrunken products return to their previous form quickly, and very soon you will have to wash them again.

How to dry jeans so they sit down

To reduce the size of jeans will help not only hot water, but also the right way to dry after washing. You can apply different methods.

• After the product has been washed and carefully wrung out, it should be hung for drying above a heat source, heater or battery. This will increase the rate of moisture evaporation after washing, which helps to compress the fibers and reduce the size of jeans.
• You can dry your jeans by spreading them on a fabric that absorbs moisture well, for example, on a terry towel. The fibers absorb water and the trousers “sit down”.
• Jeans washed in hot water can be sent to the dryer, setting a powerful mode. This will significantly “seat” the tissue.

If you did everything right, your jeans are reduced by at least one size.

Jeans stretched: how to get back in shape

If the described options for one reason or another do not suit you, and the question is still relevant, how to make your favorite jeans sit down, you can try a few extreme options, namely the shrinkage of trousers “on yourself”.

How to reduce jeans in this way? The sequence of actions is as follows:

• Wear stretched jeans, do not forget to fasten the zipper and buttons.
• Type hot water into the bath so that it covers your body to the lower back. The temperature of the water should be high enough, but at the same time bearable, otherwise you risk being burned.
• Sit in a bath of water, and sit down so that the jeans are completely covered with water. You need to be in the bath until the water cools down.
• Now the product needs to be dried without removing what is best done in the fresh air, under the sun. If you decide to sit down, then choose a metal or plastic chair, these materials will not absorb moisture.

It takes several hours to dry the jeans, constantly turning over to let the product dry completely. This method will allow you to perfectly “fit” stretched jeans according to your figure.

How to reduce jeans in two sizes

You can make jeans one size smaller with the right washing, but if you need to reduce them greatly, then you can not do without a sewing machine. You can contact the studio or do it at home.

Depending on where the fabric is stretched, the location of the new seams is determined:

• if the thing has become large on the buttocks, it should be sutured at the junction of the legs with each other;
• when jeans are stretched in the hips, trousers are sutured at the side seams;
• in the case when the product is stretched along the entire length of the leg, you need to transfer the inner seam.

Thus, you can return the form to jeans for a long time, which eliminates the need to constantly wash them.

There is another way to make jeans smaller. You can redraw the product, and thereby reduce the size of jeans as needed. It is easier to take panties to the workshop, but if you have certain knowledge and sewing skills, it will not be difficult for you to cope on your own.

Spread the product and mark the seams. Do not rush and immediately cut off the excess fabric, first sweep away the parts manually and try on trousers. If the product sits on you as it should, start assembly.

Reducing the size of jeans that are slightly stretched, at first glance, is quite simple. But ignoring the rules of washing and drying, you can ruin the thing. For this reason, you should adhere to the following recommendations:

• When washing, boiling and drying, the jeans become smaller not only in width but also in length. Consider this feature before sending the product to the washing machine, otherwise you will end up with a thing that is not suitable for wearing.
• Only those jeans models that are made of cotton material (at least 70% cotton) can be washed in hot water to reduce the size. Products made of lycra or synthetics with strong heating can finally lose their shape.
• Do not wear jeans daily, even if they are your favorite. Give things a “rest” and it will stretch much more slowly.

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