Circulating on TikTok of late have been videos showing users how to turn jeans into skirt, and it couldn’t be simpler (or more on trend, if the Danish style set in Copenhagen during the summer months is anything to go by).

All you need to do is cut the seams on the inside of the jeans, before laying them flat on the floor. Try to arrange the two panels of the jeans over each other to create a layered effect, and pin in place. The trickiest part of the process, sewing the back of the jeans together, requires a similar process: folding the two panels over each other. The next step is to sew the front of the skirt and the back of the skirt together and to trim the skirt to whatever height you’d prefer: maxi, midi or mini.

Here’s how to make a skirt from a pair of jeans with minimal effort