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Tavares
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PostPosted: 15:29 - 08 Jul 2011    Post subject: Jacket to trouser zip question - solution needed. Reply with quote

Not sure if this is the correct section for this but i couldn't see a clothing section, so here goes,

A few years ago i bought my self a Frank thomas jacket (blade i think it was called) and last year i bought a second hand pair of Frank thomas leather trousers (strike) being as they were both FT i thought that the small zip in the back of them would join them together. However the zip on the trousers is the reverse of the one in the jacket so this isn't possible.

I'm looking for a solution to join these together as the jacket keeps riding up and its driving me crazy. If i can i would like to avoid cutting it off and sewing it back on the other way round as this will make it weaker and might be a bit tricky as the material is quite stretchy.
Is there some sort of adaptor i can buy? Or has anyone got any clever ideas of a way round this?

Thanks for the help,
Shaun.
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PostPosted: 15:38 - 08 Jul 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Duct Tape FTW

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But on a serious note... are you sure the pants arnt female ones? i thought the zips where only reversed on the female clothing? bit like what they do with zips on jeans...

My first set of leathers where female pants and a male jacket, they had opposite zips too, i was too small to fit into mens leather pants at the time Laughing
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Tavares
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PostPosted: 15:46 - 08 Jul 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

as far as i'm aware they're blokes the sizing on them is in inches not number sized (10-12 etc). They're not exactly small either Embarassed
Not really sure what else there is to distinguish between the 2?
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MikeyBrown
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PostPosted: 15:49 - 08 Jul 2011    Post subject: Re: Jacket to trouser zip question - solution needed. Reply with quote

Tavares wrote:
Not sure if this is the correct section for this but i couldn't see a clothing section, so here goes,

A few years ago i bought my self a Frank thomas jacket (blade i think it was called) and last year i bought a second hand pair of Frank thomas leather trousers (strike) being as they were both FT i thought that the small zip in the back of them would join them together. However the zip on the trousers is the reverse of the one in the jacket so this isn't possible.

I'm looking for a solution to join these together as the jacket keeps riding up and its driving me crazy. If i can i would like to avoid cutting it off and sewing it back on the other way round as this will make it weaker and might be a bit tricky as the material is quite stretchy.
Is there some sort of adaptor i can buy? Or has anyone got any clever ideas of a way round this?

Thanks for the help,
Shaun.


One thing I could suggest is to fit your own zip Wink get a zip, split it in half, stitch one half to the top of the trousers and the other to the bottom of the jacket

Hey presto, you have a functioning zip that holds the two pieces together Wink

Sorry if that came out sarcastic, it wasn't meant to ahaha good luck and let us know how you go on Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:57 - 08 Jul 2011    Post subject: Re: Jacket to trouser zip question - solution needed. Reply with quote

MikeyBrown wrote:

Hey presto, you have a functioning zip that holds the two pieces together Wink


Bingo. Sometimes the flippin' obvious answer is the correct one.

One of my jackets has two zips in it - I added one when I wanted to join it to different trousers.

The material being stretchy makes the job easier, not trickier. Means you don't have to worry about lining it up so correctly. As for weakness, sew, sew and sew again. Crashed twice in self-sewn leathers and no problem.
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