Technical Apparel Repair Shops
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qclabrat
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Are you shrinking in your old age?
Any tailor should be able to do that for you. Had my local dry cleaners do it last winter to clean up the fraying edges and they came out great.
Purl
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My main goal was I have a blown out crotch, ripped pocket flap, and bib buckle tab stitches blew out on some snow pants. Think a local dry cleaner would do it?
Yes, I would think so. Those seem like relatively simple repairs in my extremely unqualified opinion.
This is a funny question these days. The tailor would probably cost as much as new ski pants. I get there are many reasons you want to fix your old pants, and i have done similar things that don't make financial sense and i hate "disposable culture", but from a strictly financial perspective..."fire, new pants".
A new zipper on my jacket and hemming the pants cost $100 together. Not sure you've looked at ski pant prices lately...but uh yeah...they're not $50-60 each.
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Purl
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I have thought of this, the pants I have are Saga and they are the OG gore Tex that is no longer made cause of forever chemicals. So I wanna make the bad “good stuff” last longer.
It’s also from a company that is no longer around, Saga. So that adds to it.
I can relate. I have gore tex infinium jacket which is also unavailable for the same reason. It’s amazing material and I want it to last.
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Karate Monkey
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You only really need to send stuff to "technical" repairers if waterproof is 100% a requirement. If you aren't going on an expedition, or wearing a dry suit, well...considering that most membrane-style wear doesn't actually work to keep you DRY, this is a low requirement for most repair work. For patch work, it's usually enough to clean the garment (properly), patch, then follow up with a DWR on the patch area. For hemming/sleeve shortening, I wouldn't even worry about it. Ask them to use waterproof seam tape if you are concerned.
For what it's worth, the local seamstress [which I suppose I should include "tailor" in this, since it's 50-50 around here] charged $40 for a zipper replacement, and most of that was because I specifically asked for a Riri zipper that they needed to order. Finish work was excellent, and it added 5 years to the life of the jacket...humorously enough, the parts of the jacket that are failing are the parts that were ultrasonically welded. That's right--the part that "would never come undone" is the part that's failing, not the stitching.
For what it's worth, the local seamstress [which I suppose I should include "tailor" in this, since it's 50-50 around here] charged $40 for a zipper replacement, and most of that was because I specifically asked for a Riri zipper that they needed to order. Finish work was excellent, and it added 5 years to the life of the jacket...humorously enough, the parts of the jacket that are failing are the parts that were ultrasonically welded. That's right--the part that "would never come undone" is the part that's failing, not the stitching.