Or, if you can't wait and don't want to pay, you can repair those rips, holes, and tears yourself. With a little knowledge, patching your own jeans isn't all that tough and can be pretty satisfying.

Slip on your jeans. Use chalk to roughly mark the area you want to distress. For a rather impressive hole in the knee area ... For a natural-looking rip, start the hole with short slices ...

"My mother was a tailor, sewed my new blue jeans ...” cried Eric Burdon on The Animals’ take of House Of The Rising Sun. “If I ever get back my old blue jean, lord, how happy could one man be ...

This story was originally published on May 22, 2023, and has been updated. When Arounna Khounnoraj was growing up, her mother, a seamstress, made and mended Khounnoraj's clothes. She would try to ...

I ripped my jeans on Tuesday. It was a little rip, right on the front of my jeans, just above my left knee. (You’ve heard of Throwback Thursday? This was Torn Front Tuesday.) Need a break?