That feeling when..
You wake up to hundreds of Tweets, Instagram DM’s and Facebook messages letting me know
that the cut out jeans have reached their final form.
It’s happened… we’ve reached the singularity.
We’ve finally achieved…
TOTAL.
CUTOUT.
[Music plays]
Welcome to make, thrift buy – the series
where YOU send in clothes that you have seen on the internet, and then I do my best to
recreate them…..
annnnnd sometimes make fun of them.
A lot of the time… make fun of them.
Alright, time to destroy a pair of jeans!
[Sad music plays]
Ok so, you all know what this is going to
look like, you don’t really need a video of me showing you how to use scissors.
So, why am I doing this video then?
Well, I suuuper didn’t want to do this… but then I thought, well, maybe at least raise
some money for charity!
So, all the money from the ad revenue from this video – all that money is going to
be going to a charity called the Vasculitis Foundation, because May is Vasculitis awareness
month, which is important to me because, number 1: It’s my birthday in May and 2: I suffer
from a Vasculitis illness called Takayasu’s Arteritis
And I’d love to find a cure, not just for myself, but for everyone else who has to live
with this.
Anyway… back to the jeans!
So the website who sells them, has had a lot of traction in the last few days, with mainstream
media outlets picking up and making fun of these jeans – but guess what?
No news is bad news… cause they are SOLD OUT.
Because, of course they are.
A ready to wear version of a look that hit runways last year at Tokyo Fashion Week, these
pants from this website that I don’t think is affiliated with the original..
These jeans sell for a cool $168 US dollars.
We currently live in a wild, wild world where the internet, plus outrage, plus memes, plus
capitalism equals… joke items like this get SOLD OUT APPARENTLY INSTANTLY
Even when they cost $168!
The only I can say in their favor is at least they’re manufactured in L.A.?
But they don’t say where the material is from, they’re also just basically destined
for the rubbish bin, because like, how many times are you going to wear these?
Are you gonna keep them for your children?
Or your children’s children?
And I mean, they’re not very size inclusive… the “jeans” only go up to a size 27”
waist, which is like a size 4 US…
It’s just too bad that I already turned the clear knee mum jeans-turn-dirt jeans into
some rather nice, embroidered shorts… so we can’t use those for this.
But I do have a pair of jeans that I WAS about to give to the thrift store… so this pair
of jeans were originally from a thrift store, for $3.
So, to… let’s be real, destroy these jeans…
What I did was to turn them inside out, and then with my pair of fabric scissors, I pinched
a fold of fabric on one leg at the back, and I proceeded to cut down near the side seams.
I had a bit of a needy dog problem!
This doggo didn’t want me to destroy these jeans either!
And then I continued cutting down the side seams, leaving about an inch (which is a like
2.5cm) of fabric next to the seams.
So I liberated this HUGE amount of fabric, which is going to be going into my scrap fabric
pile to be shredded, and then used as pillow stuffing for a dog bed I’m making…
I repeated this on the other leg’s back piece, leaving me with this nice… thong…part.
Now the originals leave this little modesty strip of fabric over the knees, so I put the
half deconstructed jeans on, and I drew a chalk mark around about where my knees are.
The next step is to cut out a rectangle of fabric HERE, leaving a bit of fabric next
to the seams on these edges.
And then because I obviously want this to be SUPER accurate, otherwise how RIDICULOUS
would I look; I folded this leg on top of the other leg, to make sure that I was cutting
out the same size rectangle from the other leg.
For the last step, I turned the jeans the other way around to make sure I wouldn’t
accidentally cut out the pockets, because it is ESSENTIAL that the pockets are left
in there.
And I cut out the rest of the fabric, making sure I kept those knee strips in.
And that’s it!
This took me abouuut 15 minutes, so, pretty speedy DIY!
So, now with them finished, how do they look on me?
And more importantly, what do people think of them?
Annika: Hey Luci, what do you think of my pants?
Annika: Do you know how much these retail for?
Luci: How much?
Annika: Give me your guess.
Luci: I don’t know… [sighs] $6000?
Annika: It’s actually surprisingly less!
Luci: How much?
Annika: $168 US dollars…
Luci: It’s almost like there is a formula for you add more money, the more jean you
take away Luci: You know one square of denim, that will
be $5000.
Just one button, that’ll be $10,000 Annika: Aww TM TM TM TM
Luci: One button and you just glue it to your own belly button
Annika: You have new business idea – we’re gonna make MILLIONS
Annika: What do you think about me wearing these out and about in public?
Luci: You know what?
I think, I support you in your choices….
Annika: Hey mum, what do you think of my new jeans?
Mum: Hello!
Oh, wow…
What happened to your jeans?
Acid rain?
Mum: Umm….
There’s not much of them, what about your underwear?
Mum: I’m glad the zipper’s still there…
Annika: What do you think about your daughter wearing these out in public?
Mum: Um… just depends on… where public is! [laughs]
But, wearing them inside my own home is a little bit safe and both Luci and my mum have
seen the weird things that I DIY many times before, so to feel their full effect I took
them out IN PUBLIC to a place where there are lots of young, hip people around – the
middle of Sydney University's campus.
And Kim, apparently, she thinks they’re alright!
And I also think we figured out a way for them to look pretty…
OK?
Wear them over some cute track pants!
However I did wanna test them out in their natural state, in the way that both of these
models wore them, with bare legs.
So I wore them over some VERY teeny tiny booty shorts… we did try talking to some people,
to see what they thought, but mostly… people ran away from me.
However this one person, the only person that would talk to us on camera, was very very
polite about them.
So.
Supportive.
In general, the people who didn’t want to be on camera but who we did talk to, said
that they wouldn’t wear them themselves but they were still very supportive of my
right to wear whatever I wanted.
Which was kinda what I expected from students at university, although I did get quite a
few stares, and laughs and confused looks.
Practically, I found it very difficult to walk up or down stairs with them.
I found it really hard to walk fast, or, walk at… all… really, because I kept getting
tangled and tripped up by the dangling, stringy seams.
Mostly I had to walk around holding the sides of them up like this… kinda turning myself
into a marionette puppet.
They’re also very much like a slinky, once you’ve tangled it, you don’t untangle
it.
And while walking up one set of stairs…
Annika: OH NO!
So there goes the idea of trying to sell these for charity…
I wonder if the originals are just as flimsy, or if they have added something to maintain
their structural integrity….
You’d hope so for the price they’re selling them for.
Annika: Wow, with this knee bit gone, they really lost all semblance of being anything
close to pants, now they’re just weird, floppy, ankle holders…
So after the leg part broke I KINDA gave up…
So, that’s how I destroyed a pair of jeans… for charity?
At least they only cost me $3!
Don’t let the jeans go to waste though!
Well I’m going to recycle all the fabric, don’t worry…
But don’t let this video pass you by without going and checking out The Vasculitis Foundation,
and, if you have the means to, donating.
All of May is Vasulitis awareness month, so, go and learn a bit about Vasculitis as well
– impress your friends with your knowledge of Takayasu’s Arteritis!
I’ll pop a link in the description box below, and if you don’t have the means to donate,
just know that you’re helping out by watching, and sharing this video.
All advertising and YouTube Red revenue from this video for this month, will go directly
to the Vasulitis Foundation, to help keep them raising money for life saving outreach
and research.
Anyway, thanks for watching, it’s still pretty fun to do some of these more ridiculous
videos now and again!
So I hope you enjoyed it as well.
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