Jeans: How to Get the Perfect Fit

Jeans are one of the hottest clothing items on the market a must-have fashion item. Finding a pair of jeans that fits perfectly would be a dream come true for most women but sometimes can be an exercise in frustration. On average women own 7 – 8 pairs of jeans and are usually not satisfied with the comfort or fit of either pair.

For those who do not feel comfortable wearing low-rise jeans, nor look good in them there is some good news - the waists of jeans are rising.

Here are some ideas to find the perfect fit:

1. Realize that finding the perfect jeans could take some time; which means you will have to try a lot of pairs to get a pair that fits you well and you find comfortable. When you decide you’re ready to find the perfect jeans go shopping for that one item only and try as many styles as you can.

2. The sizes of jeans may vary a little from your normal pant size. Don’t despair it’s only a number.

3. To create a longer looking leg, choose dark denim with a long inseam and wear them with pointy-toe boot or shoe.

4. To conceal a large tummy wear jeans that end about one inch below the belly button. Also, a tunic top or shirt that flows over the waist area and ends at the hip will take the attention away from the tummy.

5. To make a flat bottom look more round choose medium rise jeans with back pockets and avoid those with a high rise.

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Easy Custom Jeans

Designing your own jeans is the best way to express your personality and sense of style. Have you ever tried on jeans that fit great, but aren't what you are looking for? Have you ever found the perfect style of jeans, but they don't fit well? Here is the answer; find the jeans that fit right and make them into the style that screams your personality. I have a sure way to make any jeans look the way you want, as long as they fit. Take your old jeans that you love and revive them with your current style. Its easy and it is actually fun!

To start customizing your own denim you only need one tool. It is called a Dremel, and it will change your life. Trust me, I am not affiliated with this company but it is an amazing tool for many different applications. It is a high speed, ,low torque drill that has many different attachments for grinding. These attachments are important because these let you customize how your jeans will look. You can use anything that is a substitute of this tool as well, but a Dremel is the industry standard. With this tool I will take you through the steps to make the most fashionable jeans that cannot be bought for any price. I have altered many pairs of jeans and I get asked all the time "Where did you get those jeans?".

First, find a brand that you love...that fits perfectly. It should be designer, but you can use any brand you like. The more custom a jean is, the more expensive. So we are going to target buying a designer jean like Seven or Diesel in their most basic form. This may cost $80-$120 but it is well worth it if you are fashion conscious. Gap jeans are still a great alternative. When you have a color and fit that you like you can begin the process of elevating you look.

Next, is your research. Look at jeans that you love and study what makes them fashionable. Where are they faded and ripped? This is important because you will be doing this yourself. Also keep in mind what you would do differently when you look at a pair of designer jeans. You will be in control of your exact look. Designers have to make a line to fit many different tastes. You are making clothes to fit your taste, which is unique.

Take the jeans that you love and make sure you launder them first. Laundering you clothes ensures that the fit is correct. Now you can take your Dremel and use a wide sandpaper attachment. Turn it on to about 2000-3000 rpms and start roughing up the front pockets edge. This is a great place to start because you always want a distressed look on the pockets, and it will give you a feel for how the tool distresses your denim. Be very light as you touch the fabric with the Dremel. You can always distress more, but you cannot undo what is done already. Then you are ready to distress the back pockets. Go around the edge of the back pockets to give them a worn feel. Make any distresses around the back that you may like. It is important that you remember to be light with you pressure.

A Dremel works because it spins so fast. Let the tool do the work. When you are pressing on an open area like the knees, go though until you see the horizontal threads. You can open up more at the knees, but most areas you still want coverage. Also remember to do the edges of the bottom of your jeans. This is very important because any distressed denim is first faded at the bottom of the leg unless it is cropped to a shorter length. The key is to have high impact areas distressed first and then to add the touches that you see fit. This is a great way to save money, have fun and to have clothing that is unique as your style.

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How To Buy Jeans

For most, men's jeans are the most valuable player of the wardrobe. Usually, this isn't because they're the most expensive piece of clothing we own, or even the best-looking. Instead, it's their versatility that's important, as you can wear jeans around the house, in the workplace or on casual outings.

Despite this usefulness, however, finding that perfect pair of men's jeans is never easy.

So what should you look for when searching for that perfect pair of jeans? Aside from the best possible price, here are some tips and ideas to keep in mind.

Picking the right pair.

Look for timeless jeans.

It's hard to say what will be in style a year from today, but by sticking more or less with tried and true denim styles, you can aim for and land a pair of jeans that will remain stylish for years. Here are three classic examples:

Original blue jeans: Evolving from rough and tumble work wear, these are now one of the most versatile pieces of clothing you can own.

Slightly faded blue jeans: More casual wear than anything else, these can nevertheless also look hip with a nice sports coat and shirt.

Dirty denim: These can be a faded brownish rusty color or blue dirty denim. More stylized than regular blue jeans, these are still subtle enough to stand the test of time.

Flashier colors like red are always off-limits in terms of timelessness, and you should also try to avoid black or white jeans. Black jeans often fall out of favor with the "fashionistas", and unless you're Don Johnson, there's no reason in hell to buy a white pair.

Consider when you'll be wearing them.

It goes without saying that being comfortable in your jeans is the most important thing; after all, even the best-looking pair of jeans will look odd if you're uncomfortable in them. Nevertheless, keeping in mind when and where you'll wear your jeans will make the process of choosing much easier.

If, for example, you only wear suits to work, your jeans might be reserved strictly for going out or for lounging around the house, which means you have few restrictions when selecting a look and style. If your work environment allows jeans, however, denim might be everyday wear. In that case, you might have to consider more conservative styles, as even in the most casual workplaces, subtlety goes a long way. Either way, always ensure your jeans look good with sneakers, boots or dress shoes.

The right style, the perfect fit and a few more things to look for in that ultimate pair of men's jeans.

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Jeans Never Go Out Of Fashion

Take a peek at anybody’s closet be it a toddler’s, a teeny bopper’s, a working professional’s or even an oldie’s and you will find a good old pair of jeans. Jeans has been part of the fashion industry for quite sometime and it never seems to grow out of popularity and it never seems to go out of fashion. The different styles of how the jeans are designed changes through the fashion seasons but they always come back. You may find it hard to believe but when jeans were first introduced into the fashion scene they weren’t that popular at all. Now, millions everyday get into their jeans and wear them to school and for some even to work. I suppose the versatility of the jeans have made it a staple in every closet.

Jeans have gone through several transitions from the bell bottom jeans to the tight cigarette jeans type. Then there was the emergence of the hip hop very loose jeans that were sported by rappers mostly. Women’s jeans come in a variety of styles from low rise denim jeans, to hipsters, to those with boot leg cuts, or straight cuts. Many types of jeans are also embellished with numerous beads, stones, sequins and the like and most are also styled with intricate embroidery design. The possibilities to what you could do to jeans are endless. People are even giving their good old jeans that worn out look by ripping them on certain areas that would show some skin like the thigh for the women. Wearing ripped jeans gives that rugged, rebellious look to a man and would make a woman look very hip and chic. You may have noticed many celebrities sporting these ripped jeans.

What is in right now among the women are those tight fitting jeans wherein you could just overlay a long blouse or a short dress on top. These are usually made of stretch material to conform to any body type as well as accentuate you in just the right curves. Dark colored jeans would definitely give a more slimming effect, which is what most women are looking for.

Irregardless of what your choice of jeans would be as to cut, style, color, texture and even wash, I guess what matters most is that you look good in it. Most importantly you should be confident and comfortable when wearing it for this is what makes or breaks a certain look.

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The Evolution Of Jeans

Thought of the day: Why is it acceptable to wear the same pair of jeans for days, even weeks, without being questioned by friends? Yet wearing the same pair of cargos three days in a row would be scowled upon and considered un-hygienic. Do we actually believe jeans are immune to dirt?

Still on the topic of jeans… remember when all we had to choose from was either a pair of Levis, Lee or Wrangler’s? And all you had in your wardrobe was a choice of black stone wash and blue stone wash?

I remember this quite vividly. There was no such thing as ‘engineered denim’ in the early 90’s when I was a teenager. Yet in the pursuit of being cool, I had to conjure up my own version of ‘engineering’. I got my worn in look by way of scraping my ass up and down the cement footpath out the front of my house (I lived on a main road by the way). Later my mother told me that it would have been a hell of a lot easier to take off the said pair of jeans and rub them against a rough stone. Thanks for the advice mum, but too late. If only my nickname ‘ass scraper’ wore out as fast as my jeans did…

Then something revolutionary happened in the mid nineties (that saved my ass, so to speak). Levis decided that we didn’t have to wait years and years to wear in our favourite pair of jeans, ‘cause America’s convicted criminals could do all the hard work for us! Yep, all those second hand Levis being sold in boutiques actually came from America’s prisons. Imagine the satisfaction for the prisoner, knowing that some good came out of their existence? As long as they served their full sentence, of course (jeans just didn’t achieve an optimum level of worn in-ness if prisoners got out early on parole). So my pre-worn Levis alla ‘break and enterer’ became the ‘hottest’ thing in my wardrobe (just kidding, I paid for them). Really, how could I have been so narrow minded as to think crime didn’t pay?

Moving into the new millennium, jean manufactures suddenly realised that it was wrong to allow such an obvious exploitation of America’s prisoners. Especially when the Chinese could do it for a whole lot less, and quicker too! Engineered denim was born. All of sudden, we didn’t have to wait years for our jeans to hit the perfect level of worn in-ness, because we could buy a brand new pair of ‘pseudo old’ that looked like, well, a bad pair of new jeans. Like anything in its infancy, there is always something NQR (Not Quite Right) about it. Kinda like when CGI special effects first started to appear in film. Much to the rile of everyone around me, I just couldn’t help the comment “Aw that looks so fake!” every time a dinosaur ripped apart a person, or when a ship collided with an iceberg in the middle of the Antarctic. It was just a natural reaction to something that looked completely unnatural when trying to appear natural (also my natural reaction when I see a man with hair plugs, or a woman with a bad boob job. But that’s another blog entry all together). And while I didn’t go around pointing at people wearing badly engineered jeans on the street (only because I too was a serious offender), I did wonder when the edges of pockets were going to be grinded evenly, rather then looking like they had been attacked by cat claws.

Today however, while we are finally perfecting pocket grinding, crotch whisker marks, and thigh and ass sand blasting, isn’t this all merely an improvement on the fake worn-in look? I mean, I have a pair of jeans that I bought almost four years ago in dark indigo denim with only a basic enzyme wash. Over the years of wearing, there has not been even the slightest beginnings of fraying along any pocket; the whisker mark around the crotch goes straight across the thigh, (not splayed out in all kinds of unsightly directions drawing attention to my bathing suit area); and my ass does not look likes it’s been dragged over coloured sand! Perhaps we have forgotten what a real pair of worn in jeans looks like?

In saying this, I’m certainly not against engineered denim. It’s interesting and it’s getting better. And while the ‘new pseudo old’ look has now become my daily bread, the ‘engineered’ price tag that comes with the jeans is nauseating. ‘Authentic’ looking old jeans will set you back around $350 (AUD) these days. Common! For me to even want to pay that kind of money, I’m hoping some Chinese worker is scraping their ass up and down the factory room floor for me.

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Designer Jeans - Womens Designer Jeans

Jeans have come a long way since they first started being worn, from the first pairs of non-riveted jeans whose back pockets would rip apart after a few weeks, to today’s modern jeans offering a sleek, fashionable look and a quality material and stitching at the same time. However, jeans have long gone beyond the traditional “blue cowboy pants” type and now we can notice a trend to use denim (formerly used simply as a material for making trousers) in many other areas such as overalls, shorts, dresses, skirts, shirts, jackets or capris.

The jeans market is flooded with all sorts of models, from different kinds of brands ranging on an extremely wide array of prices. It’s often quite difficult to choose what’s best for you in regards to quality and fashion. Here are some of the types of jeans that circulate on today’s market:

The “designer jeans” trend started in the late 70s, with the Nakash brothers (Ralph, Avi and Joe Nakash) launching their line of Jordache jeans. It was the first time in history that a jeans model would literally start a fashion trend following its release and the Jordache line represented the birth certificate for a future marketing formula. After witnessing the success of the Nakash brothers in 1978, many other designers tried to take up their trend-breaking formula and created models of their own, intended to shock and change the fashion of the time.

Designer jeans are mostly handstitched and they can sometimes have engravings or diamond insertions. The usual price for a pair of designer jeans can go from $100 to $500, depending on the quality of the material used and the designer brand. In some cases, jeans can go above this sum, especially if they have a lot of engravings and are riddled in precious rocks.

There are now many different designer jeans brands. Seven Jeans is probably the most well known designer jeans and they have many of the top styles. Also True Religion Jeans have become a very popular choice for jeans. There are hundreds of jean companies but most don't compare to the top designer jeans for fit and style.

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Seven Jeans Ironing Tips

Seven Jeans is an eminent brand in the garment industry. Its manufactured jeans are not just attractive but also extremely durable. The soft and smooth fabric of the jeans allows one to wear it anytime and anywhere. However the comfort that Seven Jeans provides is not just confined to wearing it out but also in handling and keeping it. For instance in comparison to other jeans it is much easier to clean seven jeans and iron it. Seven Jeans can be washed at home in almost 10-15 minutes! Similarly ironing your Seven Jeans is also quite simple and hassle free. This article brings for you some ironing tips for your Seven Jeans.

• Seven Jeans offers an immensely fine fabric that seldom gets wrinkled. Yet after washing and continuous wearing most people prefer to iron their jeans. So the first thing you require in this area is to get a good iron.

• Set the temperature of the iron according to the kind of fabric your jeans is carved of. In any case always avoid too high and too low temperature.

• Before you put your Seven Jeans for ironing make sure that it is not too wet. If your jeans is holding lot of water, ironing it cannot just be harmful for the color and the cloth itself, there are chances of your iron getting spoiled. Moreover it can also deteriorate the fit of your jeans. But you may proceed if there is some moisture in your jeans. A little moisture acts as catalyst in ironing the jeans and any other cloth as well.

• Don’t be in the notion that ironing the Seven Jeans upside down will be a plus point or you will lose the color and the design of the jeans by doing it the other way. This is because of two reasons. Firstly, the fabric of this jeans is of such a good standard that it never loses its texture. It will retain it in any case. Secondly once you do the jeans upside down and then iron it, you will lose the ironed fineness on swapping it back to the right side.

• Always iron your jeans with a gentle hand. Do not press it hard in any case. For as I mentioned above the fabric in itself does not require ironing per se. But people tend to do it for their satisfaction.

• Follow the curls and curves of the jeans i.e. do not try to alter any already made cut and fashion of the jeans. You will not only be wasting your time, energy and electricity in it but it can be fatal for your garment too.

• Ironing the jeans daily is not required. You can iron it weekly.

• Once your Seven jeans is ironed nicely and to your satisfaction, hang it properly.

Ironing Seven Jeans is straight forward, all you need to do is to be a little cautious for your cherished and of course a coveted garment.

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Finding Stylish Plus Sized Jeans

One of the most universal pieces of clothing are jeans. When you are plus sized, it can be hard to find jeans that are both stylish and comfortable. Most jeans either are too tight in the leg area or cut into the tummy area. However, there are plus size clothing companies out there that make great jeans. You just have to look for them!

The first thing you should always look for in your jeans is "stretch". Many pairs of jeans will say they are made of stretch material, which means the material will give a little. You may not really think they give much, but they will stretch out more as you wear them. You may even have to give them a few hours before they get really comfortable. Going with stretch jeans will make you feel more comfortable throughout the day.

The next thing you should look for is mid rise qualities. Many jeans these days are being made as low rise jeans. This is a great look if you have no curves at all. But, plus size clothing should not be low rise. Mid rise is much more appealing and attractive. It will help you stay stylish while also allowing you to stay covered and comfortable.

When you do find the perfect pair of jeans, it is always worth it to buy an extra pair. After all, what are the chances you will run across the same pair of perfect jeans again?
So, look for the stretch fabric and mid rise quality when you are shopping for plus size clothing and jeans. You will be a lot happier when you look and feel great!

Jeanette Pollock is a freelance author and website owner of plussizeclothing-hq.com. Visit Jeanette's site to learn more about plus sized jeans.

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