DIY Dirt Jeans | Make Thrift Buy #55

Hey!

Welcome to Make Thrift Buy, the show where,
BLAH BLAH BLAH, GUYS: The Clear Knee Mom Jeans

are Out. Of. Style.

What’s that?

You were still wearing them?!

Oh my god.

How embarrassing for you.

But don’t worry, I’m here to show you
how you can quickly and easily convert your

so 3-weeks-ago clear knee mom jeans into the
latest style hitting the racks: DIRT JEANS.

That’s right.

You heard me.

DIRT JEANS.

Now Nordstrom are selling these babies for
$425, but I think that we can probably DIY

this for ourselves.

So, let's pull out our DIY caps and let’s
begin.

So, I started with my pair of now horribly
out-of-style clear knee mom jeans from episode

#52.

[Laughs.]

What was I thinking?

Now, you might be thinking, do I need to buy
expensive materials for this DIY?

Well, you actually don’t!

There’s this thing, called dirt, that you
can find all over the place, for free!

You can probably even find it in your own
backyard!

So all you need to do is to find a patch of
dirt, and then take any pair of jeans, and

place them in the dirt.

Now, a storm had just gone overhead, which
was IDEAL for this DIY – the recent rain

turned the dirt into this thing called MUD,
which has really good adhesive properties

and will make the jeans look even more authentic.

You can even add some water to the dirt yourself,
to make your own DIY MUD!

Now this is DIY, so I wasn’t afraid to get
down and dirty.

Plus, it makes the jeans all that more authentic:
now that you know what it’s like to be dirty,

you’ve seen some hard-working action, you
can wear these jeans with pride.

Here’s a pro-tip, I used a sponge to rub
the mud into the jeans to really get it in

there.

And then after leaving them out in the dirt
overnight, I let them bake in the sun for

the whole next morning to really set the dirt
in there, and now I'm done!

And it’s time to see – how did I go?

[Really over-the-top "cool" electro/drum and
bass music plays]

Guys, these came out SO WELL.

I think this is one of my favourite DIYs to
date!

This is definitely a:

[scissor snipping, zipper sound effect]

[Total Silence]

[Deep breath out]

What is the deal with high fashion at the
moment?

Not only have we got the dirt jeans, but Nordstrom
are also selling: the artist jeans!

The house-painter jeans!

That you can just throw on to put on your
"poor people" costume – all the look without

the effort!

Other big retailers like Topshop and Asos
have also recently released clothing lines

that look like they’re meant to be DIY?

Like, it’s really in fashion right now to
look like you’re too poor to buy new clothes

so you make your own out of secondhand stuff,
Pretty in Pink style.

Except... you, you buy this look.

Brand new.

At a store.

You see the confusion here?

There's also plenty of brand new clothes that
are styled to look like moth-eaten hand-me-downs.

And don’t even get me started on Vetements...

Vet-mon?

However you pronounce that - and stuff like
their DHL t-shirt.

I think the total lack of awareness goes even
deeper when you start thinking about who’s

manufacturing these jeans.

Hey Nordstrom, do you even know who the workers
are who you're paying probably not much to

splatter fake mud on these $425 jeans?

What do they think of these jeans?

Do they think that the affluent part of the
world has gone completely bonkers?

Hey, high fashion.

Stop trying to be common people.

You’ll never do what the common people do.

I’m quoting the band Pulp there.

But it’s a very appropriate song for this
particular situation.

To be honest if you spend $425 on these - you
are just living in different world than the

one I'm living in.

[Sighs]

Oh and just in case anyone was wondering,
I’m going to wash turn these jeans into

shorts, after washing them thoroughly, and
also use some clothing dye to dye them black.

There's no way I was just going to be throwing
these jeans out, don't worry.

Thanks for watching.

You should check out my other videos here,
they're a lot better than this one, and I’ll

see you all next time.

Bye!

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