Easy Fix for "butt holes"

[idedontknow]

Hmm maybe that sounds bad

So i discovered something a while ago.. I had a pair of khaki cargo shorts that i loved but i wore them so much i wore a hole in the butt!

Over time more formed, they're such good shorts though. How did I fix them?

Get some fabric that looks like boxers (i used plaid, I love it), cut to fit the hole and some extra place inside the shorts/pants then sew with thread that matches the pants so you don't see it. By sewing the fabric to the inside it preserves the frayed look and looks like you have undies showing, but it also stops the hole from wearing more.

Maybe not for everyone but I think it's cool ,and I've gotten some compliments about it! What do you think?

[Number09]

That's a pretty sweet idea.
I have a pair of pants just waiting to be fixed like that but I'm just waiting for the right fabric to come my way. :-D

[barnes]

Its a simple fix, but pointless considering you'd be showing your underwear anyways. Unless you were a girl and were wearing much less underwear then a guy. But I do suppose it protects against future wear and tear.

[DBXP]

I actually had a paid of jeans that had that happen to them. I wore them so much the left-cheek pocket was seriously about to fall off and the hole was the cause of it.

Being the typical dude, I stapled it shut and put a few layers of duct tape inside so my perfectally sculpeted buttox would be protected. And it worked for a good long while! Then came washing them...

So after that, I decided to go to my grandmum and ask her to sew it up (although I can sew, I cannot do a very good job at all). She told me to grab a patch or something so I went and grabed a older pair of jeans I didn't even remember I had and just cut a portion out of the knee. It's been holding up ok, but the patch and the jeans are two comepletely different colors and its starting to fall off. So I'm about to grab a old bandana I have and make a thicker, better patch out of that.

[naturals_not_in_it]

If you didn't want it to look so much like under wear you could always use different types of fabric for each hole, might look a little to mix and match though. But yeah I did the same thing with knee holes on a pair of old jeans, worked a treat. And jeez I love bandanas. So useful.

[Coffee]

I patched the crotch of my favourite jeans with a piece of camo fabric.

I guess it looks like I wear camo underwear all the time!

Whether to patch inside or outside is difficult. Inside preserves the outlines, the overall feel, but looks like you're flashing your jocks.

[Number09]

You could always use plain blue fabric for the crotch (since two layers of demin there could be uncomfortable) if you don't wanna flash your jocks.

[sewittogether]

Lol Thats nice... yeah fabric might look a tad bit weird

[ladyjanewriter]

I'm totally giggling like a 12 year old boy.

Any fix for some of the butt holes I work with? Oh, wait, that's not what you'd meant.

[shewolf]

Mu hubby needed a pair of shorts for the beach last week, and I took a pair of jeans he ripped the pocket on (mag light in it, and a buddy stepped on it) and another semi-matching pair (totally ripped in the straddle and a lost cause).

Cut the leg off the sacrificial pair, cut the seam to make a flat piece, measured against the soon-to-be-shorts, cut it to make a patch, then pinned and sewed (straight stitch). Then, I went outside the first seam with a zigzag for strength, and again on the rip with a zigzag to keep it from re-fraying.

plain blue jeans, white thread.then I chopped it off and turned up the raw edge to make a cuff. Took no time at all, and the rip looks intentional.

[getchoo]

Both of the back pockets of my work jeans were toast. I got some similar fabric and just sewed them up. They hold up really well and don't look half bad.

Also one of the belt loops broke so I fixed that. Hasn't broke again.