Repairing and maintaining your hiking gear will extend its lifespan, which is great both for your wallet and the planet. A busted zipper is no reason to trash your favorite jacket (or sleeping bag or ...

In an effort to be more sustainably-minded – especially when it comes to fashion – along with shopping on secondhand platforms and renting clothes instead of buying, we're in our ‘repair and re-wear’ ...

Broken zipper on your bag? You can fix it! Start by removing the old zipper slider off the zipper. To do this, bring the slider to the top of the zipper. You can use a seam ripper to remove fabric ...

A faulty zipper can render your favorite pair of jeans unwearable. Whether the zipper is stuck, misaligned, or missing a pull tab, knowing how to fix a zipper on jeans or any piece of clothing can ...

Zippers are a wonderful invention that we use just about every single day. But nothing is more annoying than a zipper that won't do its job, whether the pull is stuck halfway up your jacket, the ...

13:28, Tue, Jul 30, 2024 Updated: 13:32, Tue, Jul 30, 2024 There's nothing worse than a broken zipper – but luckily, this hack will help you fix them quickly and easily. If the slider comes off your ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Being trapped on the other side of a stuck zipper can incite panic attacks. The more you realize you can't get out of the jacket, a boot or tent you're stuck in, the more you ...

Most of us have experienced the aggravation of a zipper just abandoning its track. If you can't easily get it back on and don't want to bother with replacing the whole zipper yet, here's a quick fix.

Ah, zippers. The contraption was first used on boots, then tobacco pouches, and then leather jackets (by Schott in 1925). Crazy, right? Zippers on clothes isn’t even a 100-year-old idea yet. The ...