When your jeans go through - what do you do?

[snowleopard]

I like wearing jeans for everyday but they always go through at the right knee - sometimes after just a couple of months! (Recently got some Boden ones which lasted better - but 6 months on - big hole. )

(Am mum of hyper 2.11yo boy hence a lot of playing and climbing etc)

Now I am crafty and not averse to patching and mending but - somehow patched jeans make a kind of hippy-dippy, cutesy fashion statement I don't like (somewhere between woodstock and 7-year-old girl @ Next).

But leaving them to flap open is horrible too - uncomfortable and the hole just gets bigger (and also has a nasty 80s vibe).

But it is a shocking waste to just stop wearing them and get new ones, which I do at the moment. The holey ones I keep for gardening etc but still. Does anyone have a solution/mending method that looks nice?

trim loose threads and iron a denim patch thus on from the inside

if they still look bad keep them for gardening

Iron-on Mrs B??? Do they really stay stuck on? I had always assumed not! Will give it a try though.

yes - they work better on denim than on any other fabric IME

read the instructions but get the iron really hot and press it for much longer than you think necessary, esp round the edges, and leave them out overnight to give it a chance to cool and the glue set really well before folding and putting away.

I always use them the 'wrong' way round ie the long length of the oval patch horizontal across the knee so you get the biggest overlap all round the edges of the tear.

Thanks!