How To Fix Worn Out Thighs In Jeans

The INSIDER Summary:

My favorite pair of jeans had holes in the thighs from repeated wears.
I didn't want to give up on my jeans, so I sent them into a service that claimed to fix them.
In that location are a few places that do this, simply the one I tried is Denim Therapy.
My jeans were returned good as new.
See the earlier and afterwards pictures below.

A good pair of jeans is hard to find. But equally a woman with thighs that touch, my favorite pairs of jeans usually have a shelf-life of around a year earlier I inevitably discover the cloth in the legs starts to vesture downwardly.

And that timeline is shortened when I detect a pair of jeans that I actually honey and I wear them all the fourth dimension. Recently when I realized my favorite pair of Madewell jeans were falling autonomously, I freaked out.

I tried to notice them in stores and on resale sites like Poshmark, but to no avail. These jeans were the perfect colour, rise, and fabric, and I was devastated that I would now be on the chase to detect a unlike and likely more expensive pair to take their place.

That'due south when in a fit of exasperation, I searched for "jean hole fix" on Google and upward popped up a company chosen Denim Therapy.

Denim Therapy is far from the but make that offers these services. Denim Surgeon and Denim Doctor in the Uk all aim to do the same thing, in addition to some local tailor shops. Still, afterwards perusing the reviews on Yelp and looking at before and subsequently pictures online, I was swayed into giving Denim Therapy a shot.

Because I'm based in New York, I was able to have my jeans directly to the company instead of filling out an online form. The office was filled with people at sewing machines stitching abroad and in that location was a huge wall of jeans on one finish of the room that were either waiting to exist fixed or near to exist sent out.

A pleasant man at the front desk helped me with my society. After looking at my jeans, he told me I would need almost two inches of reinforcement. I concluded up asking for an actress inch or so since I wanted my jeans to be non only reinforced at the trouble area simply around the hole itself. My total gauge came out to $45.

Information technology took around a month before my jeans were ready to pick up, just they were well worth the wait. Here's a before and after of my jeans.

Excuse the different lighting — these are the aforementioned jeans.

And here's what they look similar on the inside.

This is the netting that helped reinforce my jeans.

At first, I was worried almost the patches on my new jeans. The interior netting didn't wait very strong and I wondered if I could successfully wash my jeans without anything weird happening to them.

To my surprise, after around two month'due south worth of wears, my jeans are back to normal. I've washed them four times since getting them back — once advisedly and the other three times not and so advisedly — and can say with confidence that they concur up equally well as when I first bought them. Though the textile truthfully feels a piffling stiffer in the reinforced region than in the rest of my pant leg, they don't look abnormal on the exterior and aren't uncomfortable at all.

You can't even tell I had my jeans stock-still.

To be fair, $45 is pretty steep to fix a pair of jeans unless you're truly committed to your denim. I would definitely recommend Denim Therapy and hole patching services similar these, simply merely if your jeans were originally extremely expensive or you desperately demand your favorite jeans to last longer, similar me.

I'm resigned to the fact that these jeans may not final forever, only hey — at least I bought myself some other year or then.