Worn crotch in jeans

Hello,

My jeans always wear out along the edge of the seam from where the four seams meet and around to the backside. Another pair have done it today!!

What can I do? I sew on patches, but the strain on the material appears elsewhere on the edge of the patch and more holes appear.

Can I fix them? If so how?

What can I do to avoid this again? Other than losing weight?

Non technical language would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Thomas

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thomastwamley
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Thomas, the only success I've *ever* had in this is to haunt the Op Shops and buy simlilarly coloured jeans whose crotch seams are in very good condition. They don't have to be big enough to fit you, just big enough to cut the entire crotch out of and make a large enough patch to replace the area in your worn jeans.

All you do is cut out he worn area of your jeans and sew in the cut-out from the 2nd-hand jeans. This will result in a seam that circumnavigates the bummal area of your jeans, but at least it doesn't look like those awful 'fat patches' found in the jeans of magnificently proportioned folk. When I do this for my daughter, I add a bit of colourful piping across the seat when I insert the transplant. That way, it looks as though it was done on purpose and isn't necessarily a repair. This might not work as well for gentlemanly folk, although if you're feelin' funky, you could do a nice dark navy piping and add some on the pockets as well?

HTH,

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Trish Brown

Probably.

It's important for the patch to conform exactly to the fabric it replaces, so that it doesn't transfer strain to the edge. It's also important for the patch to extend beyond the worn area, so that the stitches don't pull on weakened fabric.

If the patch covers a flat-felled seam, cut away the worn fabric that you have replaced; otherwise the lumpy seam will grind a hole in the new fabric.

Ironing a patch to the inside of the fabric *before* it wears out may help.

I've discussed a similar repair in some detail at

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joy beeson

Hi Thomas. Mine always used to wear out on the inside of the thighs. I patched them as long as I could. Since yours is in the butt, I wonder if you couldn't lay a bit of leather from a second hand coat? or something in place of the fabric. make it look like a design element. like western chaps maybe.

Anyway, you need to lay a piece of fabric or leather, out on the worn part I suggest that the only way to get a good fit and not strain the edges of your patch and the more worn parts of the extant jeans is to patch each leg seperately Then sew the crotch seam seperately.

Alternately, you can lay the new patch over the old fabric, stitch then cut out the older part. this will create a great patch, particularly if you are using the butt of another pair of jeans like was suggested by someone else. if you decide to do this, be sure to then stitch the inside of the old jeans down after you cut the worn part away, so actually you are stitching the patch to the old jeans at two places, near the edge of the patch and near the edge of the hole in the butt.

I always use bluegray thread and it blends in really well, but if you want it to look like a design feature, then match your thread to the rest of the garment. or to the patch if you use leather, or to the rest of the garment on the edge that shows, and the blue grey on the edge which won't show. LOL

hope some of this helps, Kitty

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Kitty

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