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Free Spirit Jeanswear. New Age traveller and open air concert goer promoting personal expression of complete freedom. Vintage denims in 3x1 and 2x1 constructions with real authentic attitude for flares and boyfriend styles, patched and pieced with up-cycled old denims to include hand crafted decoration for the personal touch.
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Frayed, faded and decorated with exotic flowers
Oversized mid weight Paige denim shirt artificially "aged" with holes, rips and shredded areas. Looks very "worn in" but sufficiently aged to be classy fashion.
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Cool over emphasised ripping and shredding as demonstrated by two of the best brands for on trend denim and jeans. Just click the images to access their sites.
Either extreme high end or high street denim fashion, both demonstrate a different side to the trend. The Diesel example is super creative and has "I want it now" written all over it. Can we persuade Diesel to make these for women? Whilst the Zara girls culottes are none the less desirable given their discrete hem shredding.
MiH Phoebe Jeans show original shibori hand dyed indigo cotton through the customised holes, adding special interest to the trend of ripping and repairing.
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Creative patching gives the ripping and shredding a reason to exist. This can be customised at home making your jeans totally personal.
Below is an intriguing printed jean from AG. The jean is made from a non denim high stretch undyed fabric. All the effects are digitally printed including the reverse and face sides twill effects. The ripped and patched areas are also part of the digital print as are the fly, pocket and waistband both front and back.
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Replica vintage Mexican boots. Rusted and degraded decoration and old leather thonging. Look great with bare legs and shorts. They are for sale in the Finds section
A real vintage denim kimono. Sleeves have been removed sometime in the past and it shows some signs of wear but this adds to its charm.
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A pure natural indigo striped throw showing some signs of wear which adds to the charm of the piece. Can be worn as a chunky scarf or used as a throw.
Old holed indigo rough cotton sweater. Looks more cool with damage than without.
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Super hairy cut loop effect. Controlled fraying in chenille ridges looks like a knit. Strips of denim sewn together, all frayed creates a crazy unusual look.
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Even sewn together as a giant herringbone effect serves as inspiration.
Worn and torn areas on jackets are harder to pass off as heavy duty wear but when carefully placed they can take on the attitude of a design.
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How to fringe denim : Slice up in equal thin strips about ½ cm-1cm wide from the hem of your skirt or waistcoat to approx. 10 cms. Keep it neat and clean. Machine a line of stitching across the top of the fringe line to prevent tearing. Trim the fringes straightacross the bottom.
How to fray denim : Cut across the weft of the fabric. Shred away the weft threads from the warp to the desired length of fraying. To prevent any further fraying machine stitch across the top of the frayed edge and heated with scissors across the bottom of the frayed edge.
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Below are some great high street and high end examples of the trend.
Open up bigger holes at the knees and thighs of oversized worn jeans to show your skinny legs beneath. Only use non stretch jeans for such style modifications. Even cut larger chunks of denim instead of shredding the weft away from the warp threads.
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Commercially available examples of the trend. All are simple and wearable and more discrete than some previous examples. Just click on the image to access their sites.
Cobweb layers. Gossamer muslin ripped and layered over plain and striped denim completed with over stitching for added intrigue. A bit too much in my opinion but in a simple Japanese style such an effect could look interesting.
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Heavily ripped throughout the front legs of this jean. May be a bit aggressive but in combination with the heavy stonewash in a mens style it looks pretty good especially for a summer season beach side casual look.
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Below is an equally distressed and destroyed front of jean but the difference here is that each destroyed area has been backed with a darker denim shade. If this were to be done at home you need to make sure that the weight of the denim is similar to that of the jean and if it is stretch that the stretch is of a similar extension to that of the jean itself.
A creative interpretation of ripping with resination and heavy tinting around the edges of the rips. In combination with some interesting repair and patching the effect is a more expensive and creative result.
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Worn out and worn in. Warp threads are cut to partially reveal the body beneath. Stained and tinted to increase the aspect of age. Although the areas of ripping and shredding may seem random they are in fact carefully selected to work with the shape of the jean and the attitude of the brand or wearer.
Threadbare - frayed use of clean cotton or old tinted weft - hand stitching, age worn burnt edges. Double cloth is torn to reveal the reverse side or to create its own pattern.
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HOW TO: Take a razor blade, cut through the warp threads on the surface. Wash to fluff the cotton and cut off unwanted threads. This should leave weft threads visible but no gaping hole. If a gaping hole is required then cut throughout the weft threads as well. You may have to machine stitch around the sedges of a complete hole to prevent further tearing in the weft direction.
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