I got a pair the other day because they were a rare extra long, but a size up from what I normally wear. In the store they fit alright, but now that I've washed them they're baggy. Anybody know the best way to shrink them successfully??

aren't you supposed to fill a bath with hot water and then put on the jeans and lay in the tub for a while? i saw that in a commercial once. maybe they were just trying to be all sexy like.

Boil them

most cottons are preshrunk usualy though

evenstar3 said:

wash in hot water and put in the dryer on high.

whenever i do that by accident, everything shrinks.

Anxiety said:

I think you can do that but it just sounds so undesirable.

JasmineFire said:

JasmineFire said:

wet denim is skanky, i agree.

i agree with the high heat dryer method. i fry most of my clothes to keep them nice and smug. i probably shouldn't do that, but oh well.

Wash in HOT water, then chiuck them in the dryer for a long time on a high setting.

Anxiety said:

clothing that is both nice and smug is wonderful if you can pull it off.

blargh, thanks guys.

i bet they get too short for me though

JasmineFire said:

oh crap. well, i have a fair amount of t-shirts that could be argued as smug, so technically that doesn't have to count as a typo, you know. right.

Anxiety said:

i thought you were serious with the smug thing!

JasmineFire said:

i should have kept my mouth shut!

You can do what I do and this is guaranteed to work, gain about ten pounds. That'll shrink'em.

Anxiety said:

It was proably that Don't Want shirt that I never got.

superspaceboy said:

Eat lots of ice cream.

ThreadBare said:

Ah, I saw a Mythbusters episode about this. They were trying to see if lying in the bath trying to shrink your jeans could kill you. It didn't kill the dude who tried it, but it did shrink the jeans a lot.

Fauxie said:

did they add the sharks like you're supposed to?

Anxiety said:

They did but they shrunk.

Fauxie said:

cheapass sharks anyway

Anxiety said:

I don't see how they could call the myth 'busted'. The dude was only in the bath for like 6 hours. And next time they need to replenish the sharks every hour.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

Most girls shrink jeans by getting fatter. It's easy.

Anxiety said:

if you've got it, flaunt it

Imago said:

you shit, I was going to tell her to go get a milkshake.

JerseyKRS said:

We're so badass and stuff--DOOM never had a chance.

JasmineFire said:

Yup. This should help...but it probably won't shrink too much.