Repairs & Modifications
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Speaking of sending to Japan. Would it be at all possible to send in my IH-526V-XHS to get bronze buttons added to it? I'm thinking I'd leave the top 2 as snaps and have the rest replaced as buttons, even the side gathers. My mom has an old singer she has used to sew awnings before that had a button hole maker. Or I could pay to have this done. What do you think?
Edit: I'd leave the pocket snaps too.
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Anyone have experience or ever soaked their IH denim in bleach/water to lighten them up?
i think The Lowdown on Denim aka Iron Heart Vienna once bleached or heavy washed some Iron heart jeans by a Italian company. There were some pics on facebook/instagram but that's from some years ago… Saw the pants in his store, washings were made pretty good and jeans still felt heavy - but i was not keen.
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Anyone have experience or ever soaked their IH denim in bleach/water to lighten them up?
yeah, we tried it once but it didn´t meet our expectations ::)
in the end you need to wear it and the outcome will be fine
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Definitely a lovely touch. Is this available for pimpage? If not, it needs to be!
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I can get pimpage buttons, will place an order today…...I pimped my @Kurt-faith jacket a couple of days ago…..
They are the same design as @neph93 's, but sewn on to show a different face…
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Those are lovely. What’s the cost per button? They come in sets?
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Thanks Giles. Hope you have a happy new year.
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555N have a pocket bag come away at the top seam. Put new iphone in what I thought was the pocket and it promptly dropped down the inside of my jeans and landed on my foot!
Anyone any ideas how to fix it ?
My 555N pocket bags are starting to wear through too now, a couple of years in though.
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One of the button holes on my leftie has become threadbare and the stitching is coming away from the denim. Any idea of a fix? Looks like it would be a straight forward job with the right thread and machine.
I'm pretty gutted actually. Just over a year in and 1 soak and wash. Didn't expect any major issues.
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Didn't expect any major issues.
Buttonholes do get fekked. My XHS had a screwed buttonhole after a year. I’ve never done anything with it and it still does the job.
Not saying it isn’t a fault, it could well be, but they are an element of a garment that can be subjected to a lot of stress. It may well be some good old wabi-sabi.
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@Giles here you go. I think it's just probably par for the course with heavy weight denim. The thicker the weft and weave the harder it must be for a finer thread to hold a stitch?
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You can hand-stitch that. It's a tricky stitch to do well, but very satisfying when you do.
https://notebook.historical-tailoring.com/2012/01/hand-tailored-buttonhole-tutorial/
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Thank you, that's a really interesting article, but I think I'll leave it in the hands of a pro. I just contacted the denim doctor up in Manchester, and will compare with Soldier Blue in London.
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I've corresponded with a tailor that specialises in denim repairs. The button hole thread needs to be unlocked, a piece of denim placed between the placket layers, new stitching applied and hole recut. It's straight forward.
As someone that repairs a number of brands that work in 19oz + denim it is apparently not an uncommon issue that heavy denim weft and weave frays easily and the cotton/polycotton thread used for stitching isn't able to hold as long as with lighter denims.
Anyone else had button hole issues? It's a weight not brand specific issue.
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I had the same issue with my XHS after a few weeks. Sent them to Denim Therapy in NYC for a fix. Haven’t had an issue since. That was 3 years ago. Then and now pics.
