How Can I Fix a Broken Pant Fly?

handyman_hank

My wardrobe is not aging gracefully, and I too much despise shopping for clothes to replace it. To be sure, after a long, gradual decline, it has gotten to a point where if I pull out a pair of pants, it is a great surprise to me if the zipper on my fly still functions in its original capacity. More commonly, I will pull out a pair of sad pants with two rows of teeth to form a fly, but either no zipper or a zipper only attached to one set of the...

Originally asked by Milo Brandt on Stack Exchange (lifehacks) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Solutions: Sew a few stitches into the pants where the zipper is. This keeps the zipper together, but is hard to take apart for bathroom breaks or generally to change them if you have tight pants. If you have loose pants or wear a belt then the pants will be turned into slipons. There are 2 way I can think of doing this: Do a whipstitich or other stitch to the zipper while the zipper apparatus is still there. A Whipstitch or blanket stitch may be to bulky and you may opt for another stitch. Remove the Zipper by the stitches that hold it into the pants or just try cutting it out. Then just sew the left over flaps together so it looks like it was meant to be that way. Use a safety pin. Using...

Full answer by Pobrecita: https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/6421 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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