Don't cut your jeans!

OK so I've been there. You have a favorite pair of jeans. They feel like a second skin and sit on exactly the right part of your hipbone with no muffin top. The spicy days of summer roll around, and the cut off jean short becomes as nessicary as flip flops.( This year the jean short has also become an acceptable evening bottom dressed up with a heel or boot and a smart coice for even fashion foward day attire. ) No matter your desire, you must resist making your own jean shorts!!! Thoses perfect jeans are meant to stay that way...perfect jeans. In the newish designer jeans world ($200 and up) jeans have numerous treatments and fabrics used in them. Take for example the stretch jean, you try to cut this bad boy and you are screwed!!! Good luck trying to get a straight line and if you want a consistent fray, the elastic will crush that dream!

Don't then go to your local mall and buy the newest store created jean short either! These are souless imposters for the time and effort it takes to create your summer sidekick. Go vintage!!!!!Right now the vintage stores are jam packed with shorts of all sizes each with an individual history and persona. These are exactly the type of shorts that smart designers spend hours painstakingly trying to reproduce.

In LA try Squaresville on Vermont or American Vintage on Hillhurst (Los Feliz). Otherwise hit up your local vintage gem or trift store.

Good shorts below!!

xoxoivystyle