Cut off jeans and sweats...........

Charlie003
Charlie003 Posts: 1,333 Member
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Again, I am a self proclaimed idiot. It's true. I cannot deny it. But a funny thing happened the other day. My daughter, who is 9 years old and very physical, burns through her jeans and sweats faster than I can buy them. All the knees have holes. So I do the sensible thing. I take a pair of scissors and turn them into cut offs. Now, I told my daughter we should take them to grandma to hem them because they do look.....well.......like someone took a pair of jeans and cut them.

Anyways, she comes home yesterday and says, kids at school think we do not have money because of the jeans. Now, I can understand that as I told her they needed to be hemmed. But kids are cruel.

Has anyone else ever had that kind of reaction to unhemmed cutoffs that you sent your kids off to school with? :drinker:

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  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    I'm not sure how fashionable this is but I usually cut them off a bit long (just at or slightly above the knee) then roll up the ends a couple times so you can't see the fraying. No hemming really needed. This can also help if your scissor skills aren't so great - if the cut off is a bit crooked some precise folding can even things out. You could always use fabric tape or a safety pin to keep them in place if that's a problem.
  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    Cut the jeans off a tad too long and neatly roll them up one or two rolls. Hem the roll with a needle and thread and they look as good as anything you buy in the store. I had a girlfriend in highschool with shorts like this and she looked great in them. The important thing is that they can't look like you cut them with scissors. Either the edges are frayed and worn or you roll them up and make it neat.

    Sweats. No. Just no. You can't wear cut off sweats to school. Also, kids are cruel.
  • LianaG1115
    LianaG1115 Posts: 453 Member
    We're in a different world today where things need to be bought and not used secondhand or hemmed. I would say ignore it, shag the ends of her shorts instead, create a little stress to them, and tell her to tell the kids that it's all the rage even the Kardashians are wearing shorts like these and she got them at American Eagle...they'll leave her alone.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    Again, I am a self proclaimed idiot. It's true. I cannot deny it. But a funny thing happened the other day. My daughter, who is 9 years old and very physical, burns through her jeans and sweats faster than I can buy them. All the knees have holes. So I do the sensible thing. I take a pair of scissors and turn them into cut offs. Now, I told my daughter we should take them to grandma to hem them because they do look.....well.......like someone took a pair of jeans and cut them.

    Anyways, she comes home yesterday and says, kids at school think we do not have money because of the jeans. Now, I can understand that as I told her they needed to be hemmed. But kids are cruel.

    Has anyone else ever had that kind of reaction to unhemmed cutoffs that you sent your kids off to school with? :drinker:

    I would not send your child to school in denim shorts anymore...... They are no longer socially acceptable. :drinker:
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    We don't wear pants in my house
  • da_bears1008
    da_bears1008 Posts: 354
    Cut offs are fine if they look like they were bought that way. They need to be frayed or hemmed.

    Cut off sweats can be used at home only.
  • smiley245
    smiley245 Posts: 420 Member
    My daughter has cut off most her jeans (pisses me off cause they were not too short or worn)
    Nobody has said anything, infact they are asking their moms to do the same.

    Though you must fray the ends to make it look like they are worn. Cause apparently that is the cool thing to do.

    Cut off sweats...not so much. I guess if you hem them?
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    Do as Waffle suggested, it's the style nowadays.
  • Charlie003
    Charlie003 Posts: 1,333 Member
    Do as Waffle suggested, it's the style nowadays.

    gREAT......Time to showcase my sewing skills....................poor, poor, child.
  • IPAkiller
    IPAkiller Posts: 711 Member
    Cut the jeans off a tad too long and neatly roll them up one or two rolls. Hem the roll with a needle and thread and they look as good as anything you buy in the store. I had a girlfriend in highschool with shorts like this and she looked great in them. The important thing is that they can't look like you cut them with scissors. Either the edges are frayed and worn or you roll them up and make it neat.

    Sweats. No. Just no. You can't wear cut off sweats to school. Also, kids are cruel.
    FYI, she shouldn't be wearing them while you do this.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    Buy her expensive shoes to offset the consensus that you don't have money. :wink:
  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    Buy her expensive shoes to offset the consensus that you don't have money. :wink:

    If she has a Dolce & Gabbana or a Valentino purse the other girls will be jealous no matter how bad her clothes are. Of course then that means they'll talk about her even more. "She probably stole it." Jr. high and high school girls use any and every difference to talk chit about each other. It's just in their nature.
  • DBoone85
    DBoone85 Posts: 916 Member
    We don't wear pants in my house

    I'll be right over....

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