1 00:00:03,580 --> 00:00:04,220 Hey! 2 00:00:04,260 --> 00:00:08,900 Welcome to Make Thrift Buy, the show where, BLAH BLAH BLAH, GUYS: The Clear Knee Mom Jeans 3 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:10,940 are Out. Of. Style. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:11,900 What’s that? 5 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:13,260 You were still wearing them?! 6 00:00:13,260 --> 00:00:13,840 Oh my god. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,280 How embarrassing for you. 8 00:00:15,340 --> 00:00:18,740 But don’t worry, I’m here to show you how you can quickly and easily convert your 9 00:00:18,750 --> 00:00:23,770 so 3-weeks-ago clear knee mom jeans into the latest style hitting the racks: DIRT JEANS. 10 00:00:23,770 --> 00:00:24,400 That’s right. 11 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,060 You heard me. 12 00:00:25,060 --> 00:00:26,200 DIRT JEANS. 13 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:31,720 Now Nordstrom are selling these babies for $425, but I think that we can probably DIY 14 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,140 this for ourselves. 15 00:00:33,140 --> 00:00:36,479 So, let's pull out our DIY caps and let’s begin. 16 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:42,089 So, I started with my pair of now horribly out-of-style clear knee mom jeans from episode 17 00:00:42,089 --> 00:00:43,089 #52. 18 00:00:43,089 --> 00:00:44,089 [Laughs.] 19 00:00:44,089 --> 00:00:45,089 What was I thinking? 20 00:00:45,089 --> 00:00:49,310 Now, you might be thinking, do I need to buy expensive materials for this DIY? 21 00:00:49,310 --> 00:00:51,180 Well, you actually don’t! 22 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:56,430 There’s this thing, called dirt, that you can find all over the place, for free! 23 00:00:56,430 --> 00:00:58,860 You can probably even find it in your own backyard! 24 00:00:58,860 --> 00:01:03,621 So all you need to do is to find a patch of dirt, and then take any pair of jeans, and 25 00:01:03,621 --> 00:01:05,020 place them in the dirt. 26 00:01:08,860 --> 00:01:13,640 Now, a storm had just gone overhead, which was IDEAL for this DIY – the recent rain 27 00:01:13,650 --> 00:01:17,940 turned the dirt into this thing called MUD, which has really good adhesive properties 28 00:01:17,940 --> 00:01:20,120 and will make the jeans look even more authentic. 29 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:25,710 You can even add some water to the dirt yourself, to make your own DIY MUD! 30 00:01:25,710 --> 00:01:29,890 Now this is DIY, so I wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty. 31 00:01:29,890 --> 00:01:34,460 Plus, it makes the jeans all that more authentic: now that you know what it’s like to be dirty, 32 00:01:34,460 --> 00:01:38,290 you’ve seen some hard-working action, you can wear these jeans with pride. 33 00:01:38,290 --> 00:01:42,910 Here’s a pro-tip, I used a sponge to rub the mud into the jeans to really get it in 34 00:01:42,910 --> 00:01:43,910 there. 35 00:01:43,910 --> 00:01:46,860 And then after leaving them out in the dirt overnight, I let them bake in the sun for 36 00:01:46,860 --> 00:01:50,370 the whole next morning to really set the dirt in there, and now I'm done! 37 00:01:50,370 --> 00:01:53,100 And it’s time to see – how did I go? 38 00:01:54,740 --> 00:01:58,060 [Really over-the-top "cool" electro/drum and bass music plays] 39 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:18,780 Guys, these came out SO WELL. 40 00:02:18,780 --> 00:02:22,120 I think this is one of my favourite DIYs to date! 41 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,760 This is definitely a: 42 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:25,640 [scissor snipping, zipper sound effect] 43 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:28,740 [Total Silence] 44 00:02:28,740 --> 00:02:30,440 [Deep breath out] 45 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,440 What is the deal with high fashion at the moment? 46 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:39,840 Not only have we got the dirt jeans, but Nordstrom are also selling: the artist jeans! 47 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,540 The house-painter jeans! 48 00:02:41,540 --> 00:02:45,730 That you can just throw on to put on your "poor people" costume – all the look without 49 00:02:45,730 --> 00:02:46,730 the effort! 50 00:02:46,730 --> 00:02:51,560 Other big retailers like Topshop and Asos have also recently released clothing lines 51 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,459 that look like they’re meant to be DIY? 52 00:02:54,459 --> 00:02:59,040 Like, it’s really in fashion right now to look like you’re too poor to buy new clothes 53 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,420 so you make your own out of secondhand stuff, Pretty in Pink style. 54 00:03:02,420 --> 00:03:05,100 Except... you, you buy this look. 55 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:06,120 Brand new. 56 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:07,020 At a store. 57 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:09,220 You see the confusion here? 58 00:03:09,220 --> 00:03:13,780 There's also plenty of brand new clothes that are styled to look like moth-eaten hand-me-downs. 59 00:03:13,780 --> 00:03:16,370 And don’t even get me started on Vetements... 60 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:17,420 Vet-mon? 61 00:03:17,420 --> 00:03:20,959 However you pronounce that - and stuff like their DHL t-shirt. 62 00:03:20,959 --> 00:03:24,980 I think the total lack of awareness goes even deeper when you start thinking about who’s 63 00:03:24,980 --> 00:03:26,510 manufacturing these jeans. 64 00:03:26,510 --> 00:03:32,790 Hey Nordstrom, do you even know who the workers are who you're paying probably not much to 65 00:03:32,790 --> 00:03:35,410 splatter fake mud on these $425 jeans? 66 00:03:35,410 --> 00:03:37,710 What do they think of these jeans? 67 00:03:37,710 --> 00:03:41,660 Do they think that the affluent part of the world has gone completely bonkers? 68 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:42,840 Hey, high fashion. 69 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,140 Stop trying to be common people. 70 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:46,280 You’ll never do what the common people do. 71 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,610 I’m quoting the band Pulp there. 72 00:03:47,610 --> 00:03:51,560 But it’s a very appropriate song for this particular situation. 73 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:57,480 To be honest if you spend $425 on these - you are just living in different world than the 74 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:58,560 one I'm living in. 75 00:03:58,560 --> 00:03:59,560 [Sighs] 76 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,430 Oh and just in case anyone was wondering, I’m going to wash turn these jeans into 77 00:04:02,430 --> 00:04:07,440 shorts, after washing them thoroughly, and also use some clothing dye to dye them black. 78 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,709 There's no way I was just going to be throwing these jeans out, don't worry. 79 00:04:10,709 --> 00:04:11,709 Thanks for watching. 80 00:04:11,709 --> 00:04:15,709 You should check out my other videos here, they're a lot better than this one, and I’ll 81 00:04:15,709 --> 00:04:16,859 see you all next time. 82 00:04:16,859 --> 00:04:17,859 Bye! 83 00:04:17,859 --> 00:04:21,139 Thank you to all of my supporters on Patreon for making these videos possible. 84 00:04:21,140 --> 00:04:24,820 To become my Patreon supporter go to patreon.com/annikavictoria!