This is a great option if you’re in a rush.
The size of your “pleats” depends on how oversized your pants are. Extremely oversized pants might need two 1 to 2 in (2. 5 to 5. 1 cm) pleats, while slightly baggy pants will only need small pleats.
Machine-wash and dry any clothes made with cotton, denim, jersey, hemp, or linen to shrink the material that way. If you have corduroy, denim, khaki, cotton, silk, or drill pants, you can soak your pants in warm water for up to 6 hours. Then, hand-wash the pants with detergent, rinse out the suds, and air-dry the pants. You can shrink silk, cashmere, tweed, camel, boucle, and mohair pants with a steam iron. If you’re shrinking velvet, turn it inside-out before steaming.
You don’t want to roll up the fabric too quickly, or it’ll look bulky and awkward.
These marks are where your elastic band will go. The back, inner waistband refers to the inner portion of your pants that touches the back of your waist.
This strategy works especially well with jeans, but works with any kind of pants with a hemmed waistband.
This may seem a bit tricky at first, but don’t give up! The cut in the center of your waistband will make this easier. Leave 1 end of the elastic sticking out from the pants.
It’s okay if you have a lot of extra elastic—you can always cut it off later.
