Pro tip tie the ends of the shoelace to a pencil it’ll help you save time on pushing it through

This is kind of what they do with children's clothing that have adjustable waists!

This is a great hack. As a kid, most of my bottoms had elasrtic there, with small buttons so it can be adjusted. So convenient and i wish adult clothes came with that

In India it's called naada , and it's Desi jugad we use it really often

A tip: you can put a safety pin on the shoelace before threading it. It saves time and you won't ever lose the lace and need to start over.

Those are some damn good scissors ngl

pro tip, you can remove the tag with a seam ripper in 10 seconds and it will look nicer on the back

In poland most children clothing has an elastic band with buttons inside for regulating the fit. They are threaded the same way. I do that to most of my clothes

As a skinny girl where barely any jeans fits me, desperation made me figure this hack out all by myself when i was in highschool, still the proudest moment of my life cause it works so well lol

As someone with 53” hips and a 35” waist. Thank tou

My pet peeve is when clothing fits around the hips but is too big for the waist. I run a length of waistband elastic through the back from one side of the waist side seam to other & fasten it with a couple of stitches.

Petition to have all women’s jeans to have those elastics on the inside of jeans like when we were younger

As a person who has always been underweighted and loves oversized clothing, this is perfect, THANKS!

Those belt loops watching her like "👀???"

Every pear shaped girl that has a fitting problem till now has to thank you, including me. It worked

I have always done this with elastic. More comfortable and it works just as well. Use 1/2 inch or 13mm elastic for the best look.

I don’t even have the same type of hair as you but I still want you to drop your hair routine!!! It’s so pretty and healthy looking😍

If you use elastic and a safety pin at the end to help it go through, it works the same but you don’t have to tie it up because it makes the waist stretchy 👍

Use elastic band instead and in the end of band make 2 holes and add a button near the place you made the cut and stitch buttons inside .. that's works like magic

I actually did it,and it worked so well!Thank you so much❤

Love this! Use a safety pin to get it through the gaps and presto!

This helped so much thankyouu 😭❤️

Yup, I do that! Bought some cargo pants that are super comfy but slip down my ass if I put literally anything in the pockets, and this has definitely saved me a couple of times haha

Great idea. You could unpick the stitching around the label and then the place would go on. I was dried to jogging bottoms that I make

As a hourglass shaped women, Thank You! I ALWAYS have this issue bcz I have a small waist and wide hips and big butt

Your hair looks amazing

Guys this is a great hack i tried this on my baggy jeans and it worked like majic. Finally i can walk through my class without been insecure about the weird pouch that used to have at my crotch 😅

This is the first actual useful hack I’ve ever seen. I’ll try it for sure

The fit is giving 🔥

This looks cool, but I have a rlly quick question. When u wash the skirt, will the threads in the cloth unravel when u cut the holes? Is there any finishing stitch or smth we can put to prevent the threads unraveling?

I honestly prefer it before, (a fan of low waisted skirts) but that’s a good hack

This is great for children's clothing. You just open the knot of the elastic band and tie a new one to make it wider, or replace the elastic. The more the fabric at waistband is ruffled the more you can expand the waist to accommodate a child's growth. This is great during rapid growth bursts when you cannot kerp buying new clothes every couple of weeks. Before overlockers were ubiquitous, and clothes were more expensive, all clothes came with a wide seam allowance, tgat allowed weight fluctuation. Especially children's clothes came with a generous seam allowance: you could just open up the seam and sew it again a bit closer to the edge of the fabric to a new size. We called it "easing the seams" or "letting out seam".. If you opened the seam at the bottom of trouser legs, you would find fabric folded inside to allow adding length, until you only had enough for a narrow seam. It was a different, waste not, want not era, when patching clothes for home and playground were acceptable and common practice and men were also expected to know how to darn their own socks.

Braided belts are really good alternitive

As an Indian child my mom has been to it since my childhood years! It's not a hack dude it's a tradition because you know I have an elder sister.

Pssst if you want to make sure that the hrs in the fabric are less able to fray, you can hand sew a number of simple stitches to reinforce either the edge itself or next to the edges and it should take about an hour to do if you're very new to hand sewing so it's not too miserable

💯 love! You just saved the day! Your helpful technique helped me cinch in my dance team daughter's pants for her parade performance tomorrow! & they are too big work no time to sew! TYSM!

Great idea! I think using elastic would work even better.

Thank you I really needed this for my new cargo jeans❤

That's a nifty little hack will end up using this often.

This is such a a good hack! It takes some time, but once you di it, it fits so well and is so much better. Thank you!

These are the kind of problems i wanna have in my life😅😂

This is so smart!!

This hack was amazing! Thanks for sharing 😁

If you put a couple hand straight stitches at the ends of the slits it will help prevent further ripping and keep those slits from fraying. Nothing fancy needed.

Oh, so you're just adding naada (something that's a thing that already comes in pajamas but you that why not use it in other things too.)

It feels like a belt would work just as well, and be an opportunity to accessorize.

Her hair !!!! Gorgeous!!!!!

It looked amazing sitting on the hips. Great hack though!

Brilliant tbh!!

Awesome 👍 Thanks 👍😊

If you have trouble threading it through invest like $2 in a bodkin and you can fix hoodie cords etc...great idea with the skirt looks nice ❤

I lost a considerable amount of weight over the last 2 years so nothing i own fits properly but im also not interested in buying all new clothes and some things i just cant replace anymore so ive just been carefully folding/pleating the waistband beneath a belt which takes like 10 minutes every time. Im so gonna try this hack. I personally kinda like baggy oversized pants with a fitted shirt, it was my go to to appear thinner when i was heavier and it just stuck.

I think it's always better to just permanently alter the waist than to do this. I used to use shoelaces as well but if you use it on waists that are bit too big, when the laces are tied, the waist area doesn't really look good. Not noticable if you wear a long shirt over it.

As soon as you held up the shoelace I was like 😮💡

I use belts, canvas belts for more casual bottoms

You can rip the tag out of the back and pull the thread out and do that with elastic also, and then tuck the elastic inside the waistband and hand tack it down instead of cutting holes, just rip a few stitches out from the bottom of the waistband, and tucked the elastic up into it, and then sew it back shut again. I sew the tag back on threw the elastic when I’m done.

Good tip. Would like to see how the back looks before I attempt

This is genius. I've seen the key ring hack but that sometimes looks awkward. This looks like it'd avoid that!

You can also use elastic band instead of shoelace will give a nice sinched shape plus won't need to tighten or loosen it it will just fit right

There's actually a tool for threading strings inside clothes. Really handy and makes the job quick and easy ;)

Remind me of children clothes with the elastic band on each side that you could tighten to fit. It was just so practical

her hair is so shiny.

HOW IS YOUR HAIR SO FUCKING GORGEOUS WTF

Now please give some tips to work with pants that fit well in the length and legs and waist but just won't get past the butt and higher part of the thigh!!! It's new and so pretty but I think I would cut on the sides and sew a new fabric in there that combines

I've used this multiple times in the past but sometimes the brunching at the waist is just too much. It's great for like a 15cm reduction

I do this but with with elastic and I put a button near the holes I made, which also makes the waist adjustable. Basically you also cut a slit in the elastic so the button can go through. You can cut several slits which makes the waist adjustable.

All children’s uniforms and clothes in the U.K. no matter if from shops or supermarkets have done this for years. It’s very handy. They do it with elastic material inside the clothes with interchangeable holes to put on a button.

The reason this is so genius is that its still adjustable! Idk how many times growing up my mom and i would sew a 'dart' into one of my skirts and then the next year i wouldnt need the dart anymore but they didnt come out neatly!

you can use an elastic band instead of shoelace.. it would be hard to remove in cases of emergencies

tip for that use a pen and pit that in between its cap helps to go forward easily u can also use some kinda stick it always helps

PRO PRO TIP: USE ELASTIC INSTEAD OF A SHOELACE. but i love that this is getting so much attention because it reminds folks you can improve the fit of your clothes even if you can't sew. Great vid!

You magnificent human!! Everyone video I saw uses sewing machine and this girl doesn’t exactly have that

I remember when they used to sell pants like this, it was the best thing ever

Beautiful reading specially the ancestor point !

Oh God! Been doing this since forever when the elastic goes loose on so many bottoms, skirts, pants.❤

Queen ! thank you! I'm going throu mad weight loss but want to keep some of my bigger clothes, now I can ❤

We do that in middle east north africa also, but instead of a shoe lace we use a ruber so it would be more adjustable.

I am literally wearing a pajama with one of these rn, as a Pakistani, in Pakistan and in India as well, (idk about other countries) we usually call it "naada" but in older times in Urdu people used to call it "azarband", almost all of my night suit pajamas has a naada 😅

I used to buy jeans with something like this but it was rubber and button and you were just pulling the rubber and butting it on the button the way you like it. It was awesome!! It was when I was a kid so I dont know where to find jeans like this anymore 😭

Ok but her hair is gorgeous. Hair routine when??

But---- your gorgeous hair at the beginning!¡!!!! 😮😮😮😮

My grandma would do something similar with my clothing when I was youger, but instead if a sholace it was an elastic string, and instead of tying it outside, shed tie it together on the inside if that makes sense.

I like this way better than they one i saw where people were tying the back up and it was visible, thank you for this idea

You can also use a seam ripper to remove the tag

I’ve been doing that to yoga pants, but I never thought of doing that jeans

this is easier to do if you thread it through by attaching a safety pin to the end of the lace (easier to grab and less friction against the fabric) also you can use an elastic with the little button holes and attach buttons to the sides of the skirt (inside, ca. 2 inches from belly button on each side) and then thread the elastic through like shown and use the button holes to secure it on the buttons you’ve sewn in. it’s a little more complicated, but may be more comfortable for some people. i usually prefer this method.

Helpful tip, use a large safety pin connected to the beginning of the shoelace and thread through, much easier

and all I want to know is how you have such beautiful hair, drop hair care routine

My pants are only too big in my skinny dreams but this was a great hack! ❤

It kinda reminds me of my mom putting the stretchy thing on my pants as a kid

i do this but swap the shoe lace with elastic, the i stich the ends of the elastic so it’s easier to take off

Tip: if you dont have shoe lace and only have a normal ribbon or lace. Just tie it with a bobby pin or a perdible (much better) so you can push it through the fabric.

You can attach a long safety pin 🧷 and use any fabric strip as well. Personally i feel like it’s easy to feel and push through 😊

Just did this today with some pants! I tied the string to a crochet hook and got it through in about 45 seconds!

Yoooo i needed this. Literally every pair of pants that i own has a waist that's too big because of my thunder thighs :').

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am a soft classic body type and had quick wearing some types of clothing because my waist was too small creating gaping and I did not what it get it tailored

I do it with elastic. No need for tying it each time and makes it super comfortable.

You can sew the lace in or tie each of the ends of the shoelace to avoid needing to re-tie it everytime

I generally learned from my mom at childhood - how to put any type of lace in pants & just tie a Safetypin in the front , it will be easier to slide also once it is inside the pant , I gather as much as I can in one place then push to to the lenth & repeat the process, it's easier that way (I don't know if I described it good enough to be understood 😅)

I wished I suffered like this 😂 I'm lucky to get back into it the next time I wear one 😂😂😂