Denim Repair

[Scaught]

I have:

Crate James IV

APC NC (only the leg opening area would be dark, really)

Again though, anyone have any information on the pricing of Denim Doctors?

[sybaritical]

[Charlie Delta]

Did those yourself Monkey?

Look good, a bit thick maybe?

And wasn't it hell to get all the way into the knee?

[ioos]

When I had my FH 4001s altered I asked Kiya for the cutoff denim, he said sure but explicitly said not to use them for repairs. I didn't get a chance to ask, what's the reasoning for this?

[sybaritical]

Did those yourself Monkey?

Look good, a bit thick maybe?

And wasn't it hell to get all the way into the knee?

Yeah they're too thick in places and will end up pulling the denim apart somewhere else I'm sure, but I wanted that darned look and l love how they turned out ( from a distance. Macro just looks untidy).

Getting into the Knee wasn't that difficult ... just turned the cuffs UP and

abused the machine a bit ... I'm learning ...

[Charlie Delta]

One of the reasons for not repairing jeans with denim is that it would be so thick that it will be more likely that the patch itself will start wearing through the denim aswell.

This only really goes for doing repairs like the one Syb just posted, there's no need for denim under it in that case anyway.

But it depends on the situation really...

[sybaritical]

There's no denim on the other side ... they would be unwearable! I just lined it with some light calico ... it needed something because the denim is so worn and frail now that I can envisage it going again very quickly and having to extend the repair. Again.

[mflo]

I was wondering how you all went about contacting Denim Doctors? I've sent them three emails on pricing with no reply. If you had any work done there how much did it run you? I'm looking for a crotch reinforcement and a tapering, possibly.

The crotch repair on my KMW's from Denim Doctors ended up costing around $50 for the repair and shipping (as far as I remember).

I've never tried to email them, but someone has always answered the phone everytime I've called Denim Doctors.

Denim Doctors / Hollywood Trading Co.

7383 Beverly Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90036

(323) 964-0080

[Knugget]

Denim Doctors is the BOMB. Seriously, best stuff ever. Here are a buncha pictures.

Holes at 10months prewash

Holes at 10months postwash

Holes at 12months postwash

[Knugget]

REPAIRED BY DENIM DOCTORS:

They also did some stitching here and there, but ..well yea. It's really easy to communicate with them. They keep in touch and everything. I do believe it's a bit hard for them to give a price estimate when they cannot see what they will be working with. But if you come in person they can easily give you a quote and tell you what they will do.

[Shangers]

I love this repair, and I think it will help taking the brunt of abuse from my bike seat. Possible to get a pic from the inside?

[liewbaysea]

my jeans had a recent tear near the crotch.booo

all my repairs thus far have been made to be as invisible as possible from the outside. i decided to change it up and make this one visible.

[warhorseworkshop]

goddamn knugget. i seriously cant wait until my 710s are that destroyed. theyre at the tailor now having a pocket put back on and i wont get them back for a week. stressin. hard.

[puddlesray]

So here are my ES Fulton 50s, about 18 months old, worn quasi-regularly. Did a fair share of biking and running after the bus in these so the crotch is wearing out. Problem is that holes are forming in between patches so I'm not sure how to go about this. (You can see the hole on the inside picture). I was thinking of doing an inside all-over patch with old T-shirt fabric. What is that white material that I see so often being used by others in this thread? (I know it's been asked before but I don't anyone has specifically said what it is. I think it's the stuff that Denim Therapy uses.)

Anyways, I'm afraid of using denim to patch because it would get awfully bulky down there. I would love to do an outside patch job like beatle but I don't have the material. So any thoughts?

[CJsmalls]

I let this hole from my redmoon wallet go for a while because it wasn't too much of a problem. But as the hole got worse I realized the silver concho on the wallet was showing through, and might get gashed up, and I didn't want that to happen.

Problem is I didn't have any denim, but I found this material laying around and decided to use it because I wanted to get back to wearing my jeans.

Well I've never hand sewn anything, but I managed. And here's how it ended up.

Apologies for not having a close up, busted camera was not cooperating. Just used some navy blue thread.

Not expecting it to hold up too long, but if it does, great.

Hopefully I'll acquire a nice piece of raw denim and some nice thread for future repairs.

[iralex]

ok, eleven months, numerous washes.

pictures of repairs by salaami

back belt loop is totally detached on top

crotch blow outtttttt- luckily you can't really see it when i'm standing

[beatle]

jeez - these really took a beating.....**********

[iralex]

yeah, I wear them every day and fall asleep in them often

[rnrswitch]

I don't know, but are there any denim brands that provide repair kits for their jeans. I am still amazed that denim companies like Samurai and others don't provide a small repair kit with a needle, some thick thread, and a small piece of the same denim the jeans are made in.

[Jackboot]

Skull will send a denim repair kit at no cost. They include all the different sized threads used. I've used mine several times now.

Edit: I just emailed them and asked for it. They mail it out right away.

[CJsmalls]

That's good service on Skull's part. I e-mailed Samurai twice about if they could send me a piece of denim for repair. Didn't even get a response, was pretty dissapointed. Even wrote them in japanese which took me like 30 mins to write:(

[siq tribal brah]

just got done reinforcing the "grundle" area of my Good Societys. this was my first time attempting to sew such a large area so let me know what you think. the patch denim is from my New Cures.

and the button was barely hanging on by a thread so i sewed this tab on by hand

[ioos]

That looks good on the button repair. I think Good Society might have quality control issues with their buttons...

[klue]

hand sewn hem reinforements. pink embroidery floss and hemp

[migz23]

this might be a dumb question but should i wash before the repair :confused:

[shark jacobs]

probably not. I don't know what kind of repair you're doing, but washing will cause any holes, or rips, or even just areas with the vertical threads worn away (warp? weft? i forget which is which) to get bigger and fray more.

the only possible exception i can imagine would be if they were unsanforized and hadn't been soaked or washed yet, then you might want to give them a hot soak first so that the repair doesn't do weird distorty things to the repaired area

[Althis]

reinforcement patch for my PBJ's made out of excess denim from hemming them, courtesy of my mother's stitching

outside pictures colors are really screwed up but it's very hard to see the stitching if you're not looking for it

[blm14]

got the S5000AI-10SP back from gordon.

Before:

After:

[Wilkes]

I have an oddly placed hole on my 811's and was looking for some advice.

I spilled some super glue on the crotch of them while working on a project. It hardened and cracked over time. I couldn't even get a needle through the material the glue hit so I cut it out. just looking for some advice on how I should proceed from here.

I also want to do this by hand because I have no sewing machine needles left and I am too lazy to walk down the street and buy more.

sorry about the quality of the pictures. using a shitty webcam right now.

as payment here is a picture of my girlfriend's boobs in a 45rpm shirt.

[selaviso]

some repairs i did on my 11.5 month old rrls

found some 100 percent cotton thread (pretty thick) so i decided to fix em up a little. im gunna resew some of the crotch area with more of the thread