My grandma would be proud.
My daughter and I both had a pair of khaki pants that had some pretty darn near irreparable damage done to the knees…more than I was willing to mend, at least! A while back, I found a link to a site with a how-to on turning jeans into a skirt, and I figured that it could be done with khakis too. And, it can! Yay! I didn’t follow the directions exactly…I modified them so that my front seam is just straight. I hemmed my daughter’s skirt, and on mine, I’m trying a frayed hem. It’s only been washed a few times, and I think it needs a few more runs through the washing machine before the hem is sufficiently frayed. I figure that if I don’t like it, I can always hem it.
At any rate, I’m pretty pleased with the results. It wasn’t terribly hard or time-consuming to do, and it cost almost nothing. All I had to buy was a spool of khaki-colored thread, which will come in handy over time for sewing buttons(or maybe modifying more khaki pants!).
Oh, and my grandma(like many grandmas, I assume!) was a very frugal lady, having lived through the Depression. She’s now gone, but I often think that she’d be thrilled to see the frugal things that I do, hence the title.
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