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How To Stretch Jeans
How To Stretch Your Jeans!
Stretching jeans is something that we all may have to do at some point in our denim lives. I myself have stretched out a lot of my jeans over the years and it’s definitely something that can be done quite easily. There are a few ways to do it, which I have listed below, but the best way (in my opinion) is by making the jeans wet.
Wet Stretching Jeans:
Whether your jeans are too small all over, or just too small in certain areas (the thighs, waist, butt etc), wet stretching will work. It’s very simple and very easy to do, it just requires patience and tolerance. There have been times where I have bought a pair of jeans and they have been too small and a bigger size was not available, so the only answer was stretching them out. It’s a simple 3 step process of water, wearing and stretching.
What you need to do is make the jeans damp, either all over, or very damp in the areas you need stretched. This is easy to do, just put water on them from the tap or you can give them a good soak with water in a spray bottle. I find warm water is better because it’s not such a shock to your skin. I don’t think anyone would really like walking/sitting around in cold and wet jeans.
After you have made your jeans wet, put them on. You will need to wear them around a lot, do lunges and squats, anything you can do to make the denim stretch. I must admit, to an outsider, the poses and techniques would look very weird! But it works. Obviously, if you have a delicate denim which is quite thin, be very careful when doing the lunges and squats, you don’t want to rip the fabric. If you want the waist stretched out, you can pull at it and tug it a lot when it’s wet, also, I used to put other items like small bottles or anything I could fit in between the waist of my jeans and my hips, this would help it stretch out more.
This method works the best when you have 100% cotton jeans or a mix of cotton/elastane jeans. It can be quite tricky to do this with poly blends and other different materials. You should leave your jeans on you, after all the stretching, until they dry. This will ensure that the denim will dry around your body instead of shrinking and drying when it’s off your body. Once you take them off you should have some luck with them being bigger than they were before you started.
Stretching Jeans With A Waistband Extender:
This is another, non wearing, way of stretching the waist of your jeans. You can buy something called a waistband stretcher and position it in the waistband of your jeans and leave it for a good while. It should stretch it out quite a bit. I haven’t personally tried this method, but I have used my own invention. I used a trouser hanger for a waistband stretcher. I slid the clips to each end, positioned it inside the waist of the jeans and then buttoned them up around it. You could see a lot of pulling, meaning it was stretched around it quite tight. I found that wetting the waistband helped even more though, wet denim just stretches so well.
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Thank you for this really informative post Lorna!!! I would love to see a “how to shrink jeans” posting too.. as I sometimes end up with jeans that are too big for me and smaller size is not available!
You are welcome Helen! That’s a good idea actually, about shrinking jeans! I could do one of those posts!
Wearing wet jeans just sounds so unbearably uncomfortable…
It’s not the most comfortable and pleasant thing to do. Sometimes it just has to be done though lol. If you want them to stretch out, you have to put up with the weird feeling of them being wet on your skin.
hi Lorna,
hope u fine ,,,, nice post i like it very much,its really interesting & informative as well,
thaks to share this precious information with us.
or you could buy a size up?
You are welcome safdar! And yeah, you can buy a size up Kate, but this is mainly for if you love the jeans and a size up is not available
Usually though when you buy a size up, they stretch out and end up being too big anyway, so it’s always best to buy them really tight first.
I am pretty sure I once saw a documentary on the history and culture of jeans where people also went in bathtubs with their jeans on in order to shrink them and fit them exactly to their bodies.
That’s true Liz, but that’s for raw denim, jeans that are just denim untreated, completely in their raw form and unwashed, so that is the reason they need to do that. People still do that now, shrink to fit raw jeans, it’s quite a popular thing among the denim fanatics.
So once they are stretched I get it. But won’t they shrink back up when washed?
That depends on how you wash them, if you wash them on a higher temperature then they will shrink a bit. Definitely don’t tumble dry them though, if you do that, they will shrink more, possibly smaller than before as well.
hi Lorna,
Thanks for your reply,
YES,, you are absolutely right,,,you have quite enough knowledge about JEANS,,,
NICE to talk to you,,,
Nice to talk to you too!
Thanks Lorna!
No problem!
Thanks for the tips! Also though,how could I make the boot cut(the flair) larger?
You mean make the actual leg opening wider? You could try wetting it and stretching it out with your hands, or if you wanted to make it really bigger, you can add some panels at the inseam, but you should probably ask a tailor to do that so they can match the denim and make it not very visible.