I had a favourite pair of trousers with a zipper which kept sliding down. I took them to an alteration/repair person at the shopping mall and had them replace the zipper for me. Yeah, I could have done it myself but I wouldn’t have done as neat a job and it would have taken me ages. Because I love these trousers and they are so comfortable, it was worth it to me to get it done properly.
Try a twistie-tie, like from a loaf of bread. It’ll be easier to work with.
Ooo! I like that - I actually have twist-ties on hand!
I also have a pair of pants with a zipper that no longer stays up. Except the waist band doesn’t have a button or snap closure. It has two flat hook-and-bar fasteners, so a keychain ring won’t work. I’ve tried the safety pin solution, but it’s a pain when I gotta pee NOW! I’m too lazy and cheap to get it fixed, but I like the pants. Any ideas for me?
Hold the keyring up, with the bars in the center, and then put the hooks in the bars as you regularly would. I just tried it on mine, and it works, but I’m not sure I’m describing it well. It’s a little lumpy, but if you’re wearing a shirt that covers it, you’d be okay. (I also just tried it with an elongated “ring” I made of beading wire, so it’s not so bulky. Worked beautifully.)
Hmm…thanks, I’ll give it a shot.
Lots of jeans nowadays are stretchy enough and have a slightly lowered waist to where they can be pulled down without unfastening, despite one’s having a girlish figure. It wasn’t an unreasonable suggestion.
Really? I guess I’m not wearing the trendy jeans these days or something, I really haven’t heard of that.
Yes, lots of jeans now are made of “stretch” fabric, which means they have a bit of Spandex or similar in them.
I’m too curvy for my jeans to come down without buttoning, but I do love the jeans with “stretch”, because finally for the first time ever, jeans that go around my hips also touch me at the waist instead of being loose! This wasn’t really practical for off-the-shelf jeans in the past, 'cause they don’t sell enough with my shape to cut them right. With the stretchy ones, they’ll fit more shapes with fewer patterns.
They’re not trendy; they’re about 1/2 a step from Mom Jeans (Riders, I think) but the “stretch” is in many mass-market jeans now.
And those skin-tight jeans you see on teens are usually spandexy, otherwise they couldn’t bend their knees. For the rest of us, it makes jeans a lot more comfortable.
I read somewhere that a swipe of solid deodorant will help a loose zipper to stay up, though I haven’t ever tried it myself.
And I read somewhere squeezing the metal part that holds the teeth with pliers to tighten it a hair is supposed to work. It’s the ‘a hair’ part that concerns me, too much and it won’t go up or down.
Yeah, my sister’s jeans all seem to work that way. My mom’s, on the other hand, usually require at least being zipped down a small bit. I always assumed it was because Mom has hips and Sis really doesn’t, but I guess it could also be choice of cut and fabric.
It’s almost worthwhile to just buy a new pair of jeans, though if money is tight that might not be an option.
You could pin the zipper tab in place when you have the pants on, though that risks disaster if you ever have any gut rumblings…
Also, have you checked to see if the pulltab has a little bit that sticks out, that is designed to lock the zipper in place if you fold the tab down? I’ve seen that.
In my own experience, sometimes a zipper will begin behaving this way if I’m sporting a few more pounds than the garment was designed for.
How low the “rise” (length from top of waistband to crotch) has a large effect on whether or not you can do that. Very low-rise jeans won’t taper in at all/much at the waist since they barely go up the hips very far.
Absolutely. I wear mid-rise jeans and have a very high hip to waist ratio, and I can still do it with most of my jeans since they fit the top of my hips rather than my waist. A small amount of stretch plus the waist band sitting below the belly button, and it’s no problem.
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