Deliberately shrinking leg and arm warmers

[Custom24]

Hi
Last year I bought a couple of sets of leg and arm warmers from Lidl and Aldi. They are slightly too big for me, and consequently they don't stay up.
Rather than throw them away, I am tempted to try putting them in the tumble drier or a hot wash or iron, to shrink them a little.
Has anyone ever tried this?
Thanks
Mark

 

[Flying Dodo]

Being lycra, if you do a really hot wash, it simply makes the material go less stretchy. So you'll end up like Nora Batty unfortunately.

 

[Custom24]

Thanks for saving me from doing that. Instead, I've used my non-existent sewing skills on the arm warmers to tighten them. On the leg warmers, I will try the fold over the shorts' hem method, which I've not tried before.
Hopefully I won't end up looking like a pillock.
Mark

 

[Slaav]

Ebay is your friend.....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Thanks for saving me from doing that. Instead, I've used my non-existent sewing skills on the arm warmers to tighten them. On the leg warmers, I will try the fold over the shorts' hem method, which I've not tried before.
Hopefully I won't end up looking like a pillock.
Mark

I've got a pair of LiDL-or-were-they-ALDI legwarmers and the under the shorts method works fine for me.