Fashion Advice: Can You Unshrink A Pair of Jeans?

| June 5, 2006 01:54 PM | Posted in jeans, fashion advice

Dear Budget Fashionista:

Is there anyway to unshrink a pair of jeans?

A: I don’t think you can unshrink jeans, but it doesn’t hurt to try. So here’s something to try at your own risk . . .

Soak the jeans in lukewarm water for a few hours. Do not wring, but hang the dripping wet jeans up on a clothes line or over a drying rack. There’s a possibility that gravity (along with the additional weight added to the jeans by water), might stretch the jeans lengthwise.

Staying awake in Physics class finally pays off.

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| Posted by The Budget Fashionista

Member Comments

June 6, 2006 Kaja wrote:

My mom allways said you could wear the jeans while bathing to unshrink them. In the bath tub, that is.

June 6, 2006 UrbanRhetoric wrote:

I’ve found that if you add some hair conditioner to the lukewarm water, it helps soften the jeans…this allows for it to return to some of its original shape.

June 7, 2006 Heather wrote:

I have a denim pencil skirt that I shrunk (and, ok, I MIGHT have gained a few pounds) and I un-shrunk it by: washing it, leaving it wet and stretching it out (not easy, keep at it) and letting it dry flat. Denim’s cotton, so it will stretch, eventually.

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