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Hi, my name is Mitra Chester, and I'm at Deluxe Resale Shop in Eugene, Oregon, and I'm going
to show you how to achieve some frayed effects on jeans, so you're going to fray your jeans.
Some examples of these effects are fraying along a slash or rip, or at the bottom of
a cuff, or basically along the edge of any kind of seam. So the first one, right here,
is basically achieved by cutting or ripping the jeans where you want the hole, a little
bit less than the actual width or length that you want it to be. So ripping it, and then
the ultimate thing you need for any kind of fraying is to wash and dry it and that will
basically fray out the edges of the denim. So you're basically going to rip or cut it
like just like that, that's what it's going to look like before you wash and dry it and
then it will look like this afterwards. Just to get a fray along the cuff, basically what
you're going to do is cut off the natural cuff of the jeans and then the edge, once
it's washed and dried, will end up looking just like this. You definitely want to consider
the washing and drying time when you're achieving these because it won't look right until it's
done. If you just want to fray along an edge of a seam or fade it a little bit, you can
use an Exacto knife or a pocket knife, or even scissors to scrape across the edge, fraying
out the denim threads a little bit, and that will give it a little more distressed kind
of look. And certain fabrics, if it has spandex in it, may snag and create some different
types of effects, but if you want just a subtle fraying you can do it like that. And please
feel free to experiment with these. If you're doing this, keep in mind that you might want
to try on the jeans first on your body and mark the areas that you want to have it done
with chalk, and keep within the boundaries of the ultimate goal because it will fray
out and achieve that width once it's washed and dried. But the placement on any kind of
alteration of jeans is very important, you want it to look right on your actual body.
So good luck!