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.

There’s a particular sick stomach lurch that happens when you rip a favorite ... color than the jeans overall. You might feel tempted to buy heavy thread to make your fix as strong as possible ...

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 ...

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 ...