Life Hack: Can showering in your too-tight jeans make them mould to a perfect fit?

Struggling to squeeze into a smaller size pair of jeans? This hack is for you 
Life Hack: Can showering in your too-tight jeans make them mould to a perfect fit?

Showering whike wearing them might be the strangest but most effective way to break in your tight jeans

Last week a video from TikTok was sent to me along with the question: does this actually work?

The clip featured a woman, Lily Schoknecht, who said she had discovered the “sustainability hack of the year” after buying second-hand jeans. Ms Schoknecht says she had bought a pair of jeans that were a size smaller than she would normally wear and they fit her snugly. She says she shrugged it off as a “tough loss” at the time but when she described the problem to her grandmother, it turned out nana had a bizarre but helpful tip for her.

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