I was at a festival (fairly worse for wear) complaining that my skinny jeans wouldn't tuck into my boots, when a friend of mine put me out of my misery & ripped them there & then to make them boot-cut.
It was a great idea at the time, however the next morning I realised I now had a great pair of rough 'boot-cut' festival jeans, but now there was no way I could wear them to work (yes, my wardrobe choices are that limited).
I trawled the internet for ideas on how to fix them and found plenty of tutorials showing you how to make boot-cut to skinny, but none showing you how to make skinny into boot-cut.
Now I was fairly limited on fabric so had to do my fix very carefully & by hand. If I ever did this again I would take my time & unpick the hem rather than cut or rip it.
Here's an image showing my fix:
I found some fabric I liked & cut them to generous rectangles & bought a couple of small closed ended zips about the length of my rips.
Then I pressed the edges of the fabric under to make them as neat as possible for the visible edges.
As I hope you can see I tacked around where it connected to the jean & enclosed the ripped edge by attaching the zip behind so only the teeth of the zip would show.
It was fiddly stuff, and there is now a fair amount of my DNA soaked into this material from all the pin pricking blood loss.
Once I was happy the zip & material was attached firmly I ran a line of thread through the new fabric so it would bunch towards the end the zip opened too. I then tacked this to the zip itself to secure it & also to stop the zip from completely disappearing back underneath the jeans.
Also my zipped edges are on the inside of my ankles. But I quite like this as it's a little more subtle :)
This was a fix I did towards the end of 2013 & I've had plenty of wear out of them since. However I don't seem to have a picture of me wearing them. Next time I do I'll upload it for you.
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