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Self Edge Denim Repair & Darning

We now offer a full range of repair services for all your denim jeans, jackets, and shirts.

We're capable of almost anything you can imagine including putting on new buttons which have come off, replacing zippers, repairing any holes, fixing torn pocket bags, reinforcing leather tags, re-chainstitching broken hem lines, and even installing real iron riveted suspender buttons.

These services are available at both SESF and SENY.

At Self Edge San Francisco we have acquired a 1950's Singer Darning machine and are now capable of repairing all holes in your jeans without the use of patches. This is how jeans were repaired from the turn of the century up until the 1960's. The machine has two threads, both indigo colored (or black/gray for black denim), and essentially creates denim where there is no denim and weaves it into the edges of the torn fabric, it's like magic and far more comfortable and cleaner looking than patching; this was the way all industrial tailors repaired jeans years ago.

Repair terms & pricing:

All garments must be brought into either SESF or SENY, we are currently not accepting mail-ins.

The cost for repairs is a flat $40 regardless of what needs to be done to the garment and $20 if the item was bought from Self Edge.

We will only work on clean garments, if you haven't washed your jeans or jacket in a while a good time to do it would be before dropping them off for repairs.

All work takes between 2 and 6 days depending on our current load.

The magical Singer Darning Machine (c. 1955)

Repaired hole in 21oz denim (Warp)

Repaired hole in 21oz denim (Weft)

man.. that's some good ass darning right there. I hope people realize that this is an authentic denim repair and no one else in the WORLD does this type of repair besides self edge. you guys rock.

saturday and sunday for any seattle superfuture kids. we gots some cool denims for yous. come plays.

2101 9th ave, across the street from the downtown whole foods.

here is the facebook event page for more info.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=348077795496&ref=mf

description on Facebook for those still stuck on myspace.

Hey Friends,

We are selling all of our left over stock from years past which includes our famous labels Sling and Stones, Academi, and a few GoodSociety jeans.

If you don't already know, our jeans will make you taller, stronger, give you wings, and for some, will help you garner extra attention from the opposite sex. Our jeans are that good looking, all while being organic AND fairly traded.

For the people that have bought our jeans before, come get some more. For the people who have heard, get them while you can. For the people that don't know, these babies will change your life forever . . . sort of.

Most of you know our story and what we have been through the past 4 years, so come join us in a sample sale and celebrate with us at our new office in South Lake Union on the corner of 9th and Lenora across the street from Whole Foods.

Our jeans will be sold at cost (cheap).

We'll take cash, credit card, and pots of gold.

2101 9th Ave

Seattle WA

man.. whoever made these jeans must be a real douche bag.

purple overdye selvage are in my dreams too... one day soon.

if you guys need buttons for your own dyi repair, do let me know we'll send some out to you. I definitely apologize for buttons falling off, its the nightmare of my life for the last 3 years. Some voodoo button curse wicked witch of the west spell or something....

i'm glad collect co. has their profile on there. they make great denim.

adderrol and midterms.

i just peed on your chair.

we have white 14.5 red line selvage denim out at uo,. . . yeah . . i'm wearing a size 28, i wear a 30 normally in these, but i like it to look slimmer than the intended relax leg look. it was hard to button up, but squeezed in anyway.

hey all. sorry about goodsociety being stubborn. there's a lot of loose indigo in the denim and it just runs over onto any sign of fading on the creases. a good trick is to wash them a few times with light detergent to wash out all the loose indigo and do a hang dry. you'll get better fading that way. at some point we should be switching all of our jeans to natural indigo on the standard mens and women's non selvage denims. i'm testing out the fabric right now it wears in extremely nice. as for your buttons falling off.... our bad... we can send you a new one, and fndmyloserhalf will send you a fairly easily explaination on how to pop a new one back on.

^ u ain't gotta lie to kick it homie.. we all know when you go kick it at night with your frat boy bff's from greek row you put on your rock and republics with your 7 diamonds shirts and drink long islands and pose with the douche bag peace signs in the club photos.... ...

and the next time you wear your boot cut rock and republics to work... i'm sooo gonna post it up in waywt

i wish i could offer all the fabric. they are all extremely nice. but we'll see how it plays out. ryandenim has a six pack and is really buff.

^^^ is a man slut.

hey guys, we do have some slim cuts coming out. for this late spring we will also be offering a slim cut in a 14oz white selvage denim. We are working with some pretty cool stuff for this coming august. black wax selvage, black wax non selvage, selvage with lycra for the ladies, some left hand twill, etc. should be good.

i'll post up some pics when i get the chance

i started a new pair recently after farting around with this fabric. this dye has got to be the most stubborn denims i have ever worked with. One trick to speed up the process i have is to wash them in light detergent 3 times to remove all indigo residue - it seems that the indigo is so loose that it rubs off on any type of fading and blends in to keep it 'raw' looking. that sneaky kato..

i love you madeline ! hope you had a great thanksgiving. u still need help on making those jeans you showed me?

kohzo makes kevlar jeans.

if you do a warm/hot soak the inseam will shrink about an inch to an inch and a half and the waist will go down a size. this indigo is pretty stubborn and the color loss isn't that dramatic after the first soak, and i think you get better fading after the first wash, from my personal experience.

thanks - we'll have a bunch more to offer next season, - i put leslie feist and her band in GoodSocietys the other day while they were in seattle. i'll post up the polariods when i get them back. they looked great on her as well. crazy canadians.

those look fantastic on you. i'm glad i made women's jeans.

from a guy with small experience with denim production in l.a. - many 'premium' denim companies in l.a. will use american and efird's poly wrapped cotton thread because of the fading they can get from cotton threads compared to a pure polyesther thread. A&E also markets this thread as being superior for vintage laundry purposes. poly wrapped cotton is just as strong as regular polyesther thread, but you get the fading of a pure cotton thread. So using a 100 percent cotton thread does make a difference in the look of worn in jean. I've used 100 percent polyesther thread and i can't stand it when i see my 'vintage' wash looking dumb with bright colored thread.

and cotton wrapped polyesther is the most expensive denim thread that american and efird offers (from what i bought last year), so i guess the point is, there is value in making a denim look vintage as the denim ages over time even in the thread, and if someone choosed 100 percent cotton then thats what they choose, but by all means you can't get a vintage look on your thread from using 100 percent polyesther.

^ get back to work.

i'm glad u like them - u should post some pictures.