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My younger brother came here for dinner on Monday. He brought along a pair of gently used navy cargo pants with a broken zipper and asked me if I could fix them. I said I "could", but did he really want to pay my "I hate doing this c__p" fly alteration fee? I was really kidding, but he decided he would take them back home and see if he could remove the bottom stop and try to mend the broken zipper. After he left, I saw that he had left them here. (Accident???) I decided to fix them (yeah, I love him a lot, and he spent all kinds of time helping me when I first got a computer).

So I took the fly apart and removed the zipper. Dang! It's exactly 6.5 inches long. I could buy a 7" zipper locally, get the parts to shorten it, and spend an hour struggling with removing those brass teeth... or I could pay

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an extra $1.00 to make it exactly the right length. (I'll nick DB with the cost of the zipper anyway.)

So I ordered the zipper online on the 6th, and it came TODAY. The length is perfect, so all I have to do is sew it in, top stitch all the bits where I had to remove stitching, and voila, points earned with my favorite brother. ;-)

But Like Kate says, I really don't [replace men's fly zippers]...

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BEI Design
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I am a seamstress and when I have to replace a zipper that's a bit longer than original...I just let the excess go to the bottom of the fly area and then cut the excess and overhand stitch to keep it from parting. .Audrey

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coooooool grandma

I do that with nylon coil zippers. However this was a brass jeans zipper, and it had to be top-stitched across the bottom following the curve of the fly. There was no way to top stitch across the brass teeth. Besides, my brother was going to pay for the replacement zipper. Zipperstop.com charges $1.00 for that service, cheap at twice the price. Certainly far less than an hour of my time is worth. And I wanted the finished job to look good.

I learned I could replace a fly-zipper in under an hour, start to finish. DB is taking me out to dinner tonight. ;-)

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BEI Design

My son pulled the same routine on me last week, only with cargo shorts! I told him I'd rather make the shorts from scratch than replace the zipper. "But, mom, they're my favorite shorts", he replied. Yea, I bought a metal, heavy duty zipper, and put it in. He's treating DH and I to four nights in a hotel.....we chose Toronto.....free rooms that he couldn't use! I think maybe we got the best part of that deal! Enjoy your dinner!

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Alice in PA

Mine knows where the sewing machines are and has been known to mend his own school trousers before I was aware they had split the crotch seam.

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Kate XXXXXX

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