Project cloudy with a chance of studs

Hollymotherofgod....
I'm starting to realise why these shorts are expensive. It's manual labour fraying these things. I've got a cramp in my hand, and blisters forming on my thumb from going at the shorts with a minuscule tweezer which I soon replaced with a longer one. No change. It is tiring. My dad is ignoring the trail of threads I leave whenever I move, whilst my mammy laughs out as she says ' I told you so' looking at my face of wrenching in a mix of fierce concentration and pain.
Livid.

What I've been doing is taking the horizontal white threads with the tweezers and pulling them downwards as to unravel the blue threads thus giving the frayed edges. I'd advise if you get a clump of white threads DO NOT CUT THEM OFF because I learnt the hard way you can accidentally cut off the blue threads which you just spent a half hour unraveling...

DIY project/ cloudy with a chance of studs

Looking around the high street and even the vintage stores, shorts, like short shorts, and I mean bum bearing shorts, seem to be bloody everywhere. And y'know what? They're pretty cool. But a hella expensive for something that has less fabric then a kitchen towel. €28 for 'vintage' in Fierce in temple bar, €40 odd in River Island and similar again in Topshop. So I figured I could do that myself!
Grabbing a scissors, a tweezers and an old pair of Zara city shorts ( 3 years old, worn several times in 2009...) I decided to get to work. I shall document this working progress until I'm happy that I've defeated these shops at their own game.

Keep in tune for the sketch to take shape