With July 4th quickly approaching, I couldn’t help but feeling patriotic. I needed some new American swag for the holiday. I turned my sights to some American flag shorts, but seeing as how the ones I wanted from Topshop were around $70, I improvised.
I took a quick trip to Goodwill and after hardly any digging, found a killer pair of mom jeans that fit like a glove: $3. When I got home, I cut them into shorts. Then tried them on and re-cut them again and again until they were just the right length.
I had some fabric paint from a previous project, but WalMart has some for super cheap that you can pick up.
After the shorts are cut, paint the right front side solid blue and the left front side solid red. I think it looks cool to only paint to the side seam and avoid the pockets, but to each his own!
After the paint is completely dry, you can either draw stars on the blue side or use a stencil. Fill them in with the white fabric paint.
Then on to the last step, the stripes. I just used a ruler to space them out then filled alternating ones with the white fabric paint.
After your shorts are totally dry, the last step is just to wash and dry them so they fray a little. And tada, you’re ready for some 4th of July action.
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