Back a short while ago...and I'm not saying how short or long....a number of girls I knew (I grew up 30 miles north of Big Sur and one of my high school friends earned pocket money doing gardening for Joan Baez's mother). would take a pair of blue jeans and rip out the stitching on the inside of the legs,from the ankles all the way up and down the other side. They they'd fit in a piece of calico front and back and voila!...a jeans dress.