I_thriftflip turns Adidas sweatpants into a lace-trimmed ruffle miniskirt

An old white knit top supplies the foldover waistband, while the cut-off trouser legs become gathered ruffles.

Channel: I_thriftflip Story of November 8, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 1,303,871 views.

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Black flared sweatpants lose their legs and gain a completely different silhouette in I_thriftflip's sewing Short, which drew roughly 1.3 million views since yesterday.

The London creator cuts away the original waistband, then borrows fabric from an old white knit top for a low-rise foldover band. The discarded trouser legs aren't discarded at all: sliced into strips, they supply the skirt's black ruffles, with white lace peeking out underneath.

There's a practical workaround tucked into the fast edit. "I don't have an overlocker, so I'll zigzag the edges," the text-to-speech voiceover explains. Stretching elastic as she sews gathers the fabric strips before she attaches them to the skirt and models the result.

The Short is marked as a paid partnership with Whatnot, where she says she bought the sweatpants.

Among the familiar sound-effect jokes in the comments is a more personal sewing story: one viewer says the channel gave them the courage to turn old jeans into a skirt for a concert.

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The numbers

The sweatpants transformation gained substantially more views yesterday than during its first day online.

subscribers

624,000

▲ 17,000 in the last 7 days

total views

158,245,519

views per day

2,458,152

typical day: 519,292

the video

views

1,607,665

likes

105,515

comments

407

days online

3

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As of November 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.