{"id":22945,"date":"2026-09-26T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22945"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:01:38","slug":"daily_4223_-_cant_replace_this_zipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/09\/26\/daily_4223_-_cant_replace_this_zipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4223 – can’t replace this zipper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From my mending pile, a pair of Ingrid’s jeans, with a broken zipper. The jeans themselves are still in good shape, but with a missing tooth, the zipper isn’t usable.<\/p>\n

Annoyingly, I won’t be able to fix it. The zipper is attached to a placket of fabric that has been sewed to the rest of the trousers with a serger, and I can’t get at the zipper without ripping that serged seam. The other half of the zipper is likewise blocked in by a double-needle seam, which I’d need to rip. The ripping is doable, but reattaching everything in a decently tidy way would be really hard. I would almost be reconstructing the whole fly from scratch, without the special machines that were used for the original.<\/p>\n

There’s a new EU law enforcing consumers’ right to repair, applying to electronics and household goods. I do wish there was something similar for clothing. Maybe in another decade or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From my mending pile, a pair of Ingrid’s jeans, with a broken zipper. The jeans themselves are still in good shape, but with a missing tooth, the zipper isn’t usable. Annoyingly, I won’t be able to fix it. The zipper is attached to a placket of fabric that has been sewed to the rest of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,787,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-mending","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22946,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions\/22946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}