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--- 2592011
I ripped trough my pants and have a big rip at my butt horizontally. How do I fix it? 
Is it sufficient to work with thread and needle?
I just need it to not be visible (showing my underwear) for tomorrow when I'm at the office. 
Afterwards I can buy new or get it repaired professionally.

So not like pic related its vertical, but horizontal from above the pockets and all the way from left to right the only thing keeping it from hanging is the seam in the middle.
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>>2592011 (OP)
If you live within half an hour of a mall, or even a walmart its going to be much faster for you to buy a new pair of pants. If you want to repair it because you're attached to the pants or want to learn, then its definitely doable - just google for a video on repairing tears in jeans, You will need a needle, thread and a piece of fabric to place behind the tear. The general procedure is to position the two sides of the tear as close together as possible with your new piece behind them to fill the gap. You then sew each side of the tear to the backing piece. After teh edges are secure you can take additional stitches around the tear through both layers of cloth to reinforce the area. Ideally the backing piece and thread would be a similar color and your stitches would be small enough that the repair is isn't easily noticed, but as a beginner it will probably look sloppy and take forever
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>>2592029
Based Walmart recommender
I seriously don't understand why so many people post here trying to repair things that can be replaced for a few dollars
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thread and needle will suffice to keep your knickers covered for a day. use a ladder stitch for the first pass, then go over the whole thing again with a whipstitch. then test the repair: put pants on and sit, stand, bend over, etc. if the thread breaks, go over the area again but make smaller stitches this time.

if it's an option, local haberdasher or craft store will have iron-on mending patches or hem tape or something for a bit of additional reinforcement.

be aware the pants are gonna feel very slightly tighter using this method. you're taking in fabric and while it's a marginal amount it might change the fit & the hang enough for you (or rather your bum) to notice it.
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>>2592033
>why spend pennies to fix something when you can spend 100x that to replace it XD
it could because you are on the /diy/ board?
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Just be glad it didn't happen at work.
I was throwing my leg over something and my old work Jean's tore from the bottom of the zipper al the way to the asscrack.
Usually wouldn't care but since there were femoids around I just wrapped my shirt around my waist and made sure not to stretch to much
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now you can take a shit anywhere without removing your pants
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>>2592055
there's /diy/ and then there's being a cheap jew
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>>2592055
jeans that are ripped all the way across are ruined
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I fixed it with ducttape. 
Its gonna look a little odd because the pocket opening isnt visible anymore but its but than showing my butt.
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>>2592011 (OP)
a strong quality repair will need material to use 
>trying to sew the 2 ends together will be weak and make pants slightly smaller so it also pulls more 
make an inside patch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iek4i8Bc-7A [Embed]
Just don't play wrestling with your bros in you work pants next time
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>>2592104
I used ducttape on the inside. It will be a good fix. I'm only in office on Monday and I can't buy new pants right now.
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>>2592110
I'll remember to wear my sweat pants next time.
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>>2592110
>Update
wtf thats hot
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give your ripped pants to your wife to fix op, works on my machine
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>>2592029
>buy a new pair of pants
>needle, thread and a piece of fabric to place behind the tear
This anon knows his shit.
Listen to him.
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>>2592055
>/diy/ board
/diy/ means being more efficient, not less
don't hire a contactor to dive a nail, but it's still worth using a hammer instead of a rock
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>>2592144
You're not really /doing it yourself/ if you have to rely on buying a hammer from Mr Toolberg to get a job done.
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>>2592160
hit a tree, in minecraft
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>>2592161
Good idea
You can use the wood to make a mallet
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>>2592160
>buying a hammer
If you're driving one nail once, use the rock.
If you're building four Adirondack chairs, you're going to save more of your time and energy and life by having a hammer.
And building and selling items created with that hammer on a market will recover its cost and then some.
Welcome to the advantages of living in a capitalist economy.
Do jews game this system by price fixing, racketeering, monopolizing, monopsonizing, fraud, usury, regulation, and any number of other tricks? Yes. Are you able to avoid them and fight them? Yes.
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>>2592265
>Are you able to avoid them and fight them? Yes.
Bring it on goy.
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>>2592144
>/diy/ means being more efficient, not less
it means doing it yourself, nothing else
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>>2592361
I'm in cash, I have no debt, in shop local, and when I want or need a professional, e.g. doctor, dentist, etc., I hire a white man.
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>>2592265
You never only hammer one nail, just get the hammer.
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>>2592096
>>2592097
>>2592144
>t. can't sew
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>>2592144
how is it more efficient to buy a new pair of pants than it is to fix the pair you already have in five minutes?
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>>2592011 (OP)
Wouldn't that be fixed with a ladder stitch?
And why wouldn't you attempt to fix them, is this "buy new, you're a cheap jew if you fix stuff" an american thing or what the hell? Takes few minutes to fix stuff like that.
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>>2592976
>in five minutes
Uhh huh.
That's the sewing part.
You're conveniently excluding the necessary preparations, e.g. finding the patch and thread, cutting, pinning, threading, and cleanup, e.g. trimming, putting stuff away.
It is not "five minutes." It is twenty for the skilled who has an area already prepared, forty for the novice that needs to prep a place, and an hour for the unskilled.
But most importantly: that's time spent doing something which can be corrected by a simple market purchase which isn't going towards something which cannot be.
Like educating yourself, drafting up an outbuilding, tinkering with a turbine, designing a circuit, or a thousand hobbies.
In not spending ten dollars and more literally less-than-five minutes while you're already at the store for other reasons, you are asserting that your time -- the most valuable and precious gift God has given you since Salvation - is worth no more than some Vietnamese seamstress.
And, incidentally, you are depriving her of her opportunity to apply her skills.
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>>2592793
>can't sew
I've patched more garments than you have teeth.
I've turned more tattered sails into bags than you've got fingers.
I've put more patches on uniforms than you've got toes.
And I'm even ashamed to say I've made more than one set of LARP clothes.
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when it rips that way the fabric is pretty much spent. patching them up won't make them last for a whole lot longer.
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>>2592011 (OP)
Used to staple my trousers sheats to length, because fuck it and quick long lasting fix (i know, not really stressed area, unlike butt)
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>>2593414
Or just glue a patch on the inside
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>>2593036
you're also forgetting it's fun and satisfying to fix something
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Is it zoomers or boomers that thing TT? Milenials RISE UP
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>>2593038
Fuck I have to get up at twelve to meet that giyS. Gm I have to go to bed to be there at 6, I need to bring tie done too but he didn’t move the stuff out of!
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>>2593474
>fun and satisfying
At which point it's a hobby so don't treat it like anything else.
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>>2593036
it would suck to have all of that stuff for when you inevitably rip another pair of pants or a t shirt or whatever, because the effort of going into the crafts section of walmart while youre their collecting your monthly supply of mountain dew would just be too much
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>>2592011 (OP)
It's worn out. How do you not have other pants? 

Do you buy toilet paper by the sheet as you use it?
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>>2593010
by itself? not a chance. you wouldn't make it out the door. the seam would fail while you were putting your shoes on. could maybe get away with it elsewhere on the garment, e.g. a short clean vertical tear on the trouser leg at calf height would do just fine. but for proper mending: fpbp. all you're really doing when making a ladder stitch is working an inverted running stitch.
>running: fast
>back: stronk
>ladder: invisible
>cross: stretch
>blind: ...hems?
>other ones: dgaf
that seems to be, on average, how people keep track of hand stitches. and invisible repair best repair, right? right. so ladder gets filed away as "the mending stitch". meanwhile it's no stronger than a running stitch, no faster than a backstitch, and both of those are *also* invisible -- once you turn the work inside out. ladder is for when that's not an option.

main utility aside, it's also an exceptionally beginner-friendly stitch to work because you're only ever going through one layer of fabric at a time and putting careful emphasis on 90deg angles when you swap from one to the other. that significantly lowers the likelihood of getting close to the end and discovering the edges are no longer the same length because the fabric has been shifting.

>And why wouldn't you attempt to fix them, is this "buy new, you're a cheap jew if you fix stuff" an american thing or what the hell?
kinda. mostly it's people managing to misinterpret what op was asking for despite having stated it clearly.
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>>2593481
AND NO GIRL EVER WANTS TO DANCE
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>>2592011 (OP)
Your pants got enough experience to level up for better shitting stats.
--- 2596881
Is it worth paying some outlet to trim these jeans or will they just mess them up? I like this pair, it fits me well but never paid anyone to make adjustments. (don’t want to kill a thread on this one)
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>>2596881
and actually should I wash them or give them to the tailor dirty as washing makes it shrink and wearing distend?
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>>2593038
>I've patched 4 garments
>I've made 8 sail bags
>I've sewed 12 patches on uniforms
Yeah, big whoop.
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>>2592033
>just throw it in the garbage xD