Q- A few months ago my friend bought me this faux leather jacket from Wet Seal. Its a dark brown bomber jacket and I love it. The only problem is that it looks too new. I want to make it look more worn in, so it looks better. Are there any techniques you would use to make faux leather look more worn in?
A- Well, here is the reality of the situation — you aren’t going to be able to wear in a faux leather jacket. You are going to wear a hole in it before you are going to make it look worn in. Sad but true. So really the only hope for making it look worn is by taking matters into your own creative hands.
I haven’t done this technique on clothing (only on a pair of Converse), so proceed with caution … Break out the paint. Take a tiny bottle of craft paint that you can find at any basic arts and craft store for my 99 cents. For your brown jacket, I would get a bronze color or brown in a shade lighter than your jacket. Then I would take a dry brush or a dry sponge and lightly brush on a tiny bit of paint around the places you want to look worn in. For example, around the seams and on the elbows. Just apply the smallest amount of paint, applying too much will just look silly.
That’s all I have. If anyone else has some great advice, please leave it in the comments section. Thanks!
maybe also do a bit more of the same with a darker shade as well and rub it in so it goes into the crevices?