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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Meredith Clark

Woman shares simple but effective hack to get too-tight jeans to fit: ‘What sorcery is this?’

TikTok / bug318; wetsadnoodle

There’s nothing worse than realising your favourite pair of jeans no longer fit, which is why people are praising a simple-yet-effective hack that seemingly has the ability to make the pants fit once again.

The sustainable hack was kickstarted by Lily Schoknecht, who goes by the username @bug318_ on TikTok. In a video that now has almost 4m views, Schoknecht informed her followers of a trick she learned from her grandmother after purchasing a pair of size-10 second-hand jeans that were too small.

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