This week in Grazia is "Is your denim hot enough?" - Grazia bring us the breaking news that denim is in fashion. I'm not sure when it ever was out of fashion - no doubt during the same microseconds that military or nautical or safari go out of style enough for the magazines to claim that they are BACK!

Now, I'm not going to kid you that I am going to show you how to make a pair of jeans - I haven't even faced a pair of trousers yet. But one thing did catch me eye because it was soooo simple. 

So, for once, you are going to have a Grazia DIY where I actually made it - it took me about 30 minutes.

It's a denim cuff with zip details. Nothing expensive - it only costs £16 but I just made it for free. Here's the original:

The DIY:

1. Take an old plastic bottle and cut out the cuff shape
   
2. Take an old piece of denim (I had just "retired" a pair of jeans which had worn through at the arse) and draw around the cuff shape, then add 2cm all the way around for you base layer
   
3. Cut out the denim and stick to the plastic cuff using a glue gun - stuck the edge down first then went around the cuff with a line of glue about ever 2 cm
   
   
4. I only had a fixed end zip, and only had a red one at that,  around so I pulled off the metal bit at the bottom and removed the zip part (the head?)
   
5. I glued the two piece of zip about 1 cm away from the edge - zip teeth facing outwards. Then to cover the edges I took another piece of the jeans (the other side this time) and stuck it down the middle. I could have embellished it more - but I didn't have anything to hand.

I just don't get these one-arm styles.  They just look unfinished to me.  I'm obviously wrong though - if I am to believe my fashion bible Grazia. They have no fewer than 3 of these tops and dresses advertised in this weeks issue.