You don’t have to throw out your favourite pair of jeans when holes appear, or give them away when they get too tight. Local jeans alteration studio JeansFix tells us how they breathe new life into your treasured denims.
For years, I’ve been hanging on to a Levi’s denim skirt, which I’ve worn only a few times. I can still just about squeeze into it, which is why I haven’t given it away. If I lose 2kg, it will fit perfectly, I tell myself. Unfortunately, that goal has been as much of a stretch as my waistline, and the skirt sits in my closet, sad and unworn. Until I brought it to JeansFix.
Instead of buying lower-quality jeans, I’d say get good quality ones that can last for a long time, and we will maintain them for you. Yong said some denim connoisseurs are extremely exacting, with specific demands, such as requests to preserve the selvedge . There are also requests to keep the original hem of a pair of jeans even after length alteration, which means her team has to re-connect the hem after altering the length.The most she has charged for fixing a pair of jeans is S$600, for an old pair of vintage Levi’s.
She said that with cheaper repairs, the patching can criss-cross randomly, and the threads will start to unravel after a while. Also, they are the only ones in Singapore who do expansions. With a few hundred alterations and repairs every month, expect to wait two to three weeks, and up to one month during festive seasons, if you bring your jeans to JeansFix.“If customers tell me it’s expensive, I will ask them to buy a new pair of jeans,” she laughed.
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