Taper Jeans from Boot Cut to Straight Legs**

Straight legs are in so I am always flabergasted when I can never find anything but boot cut jeans. I don't live in Texas and do not wear big ole cowboy boots so I find boot cut jeans just do not fit my style and I don't like all that fabric flappin around when I walk. Sometimes they are so flaired I feel like Shaggy from Scooby Doo. So I make sure that my jeans fit in the hips, thighs, and are long enough, then I taper them to straight cut jeans. Not super straight from the 1980's but just straight with no flair.

Here is a photo of the before flaired Calvin Klein boot cut jeans.




The first thing I do is lay my jeans flat inside out. I make sure the seam I am about to taper is on the inside seam and the seams match up and are straight. I measure across usually about three inches in from the inside seam.

I mark three inches in with a marker. And pin where my three inch taper begins.



To taper the boot cut jeans to straight legs, you lay a ruler diagonally to just below where you knee is at the inseam. (See Photo)Then mark the line with your marker.





















Do both legs the same way.




I am now ready to sew. I follow my line on the sewing machine with a straight stich. I then try them on inside out to make sure they are not too tight.



If they are a good fit, I cut the excess material off.





Next you need to finish the edge that you just cut so that it doesn't fray and unravel. I use a zig zag stitch.






And wha-la straight leg jeans.