Thought double stitching on pockets was a waste of time until I had a pair of jeans blow out in 4 months

I used to skip the extra row of stitching on my pocket edges to save time, but after my favorite pair of raw denim gave up at a coffee shop in Portland, I spent an afternoon reinforcing a test pair and they've held up for over a year now. Has anyone else found a simple stitch change that actually made their clothes last longer?

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james_ross18d ago

Four months sounds like a defect or you're doing construction work in them. Double stitching isn't gonna save a bad batch of denim.

elliotw3718d ago

Yeah honestly @james_ross, I feel you on that. I got a pair of raw denim that ripped at the crotch after like 5 months and I wasn't even doing anything crazy, just sitting at a desk lol. Sometimes it's just the luck of the draw with how the denim was woven or something. Double stitching helps but if the fabric itself is thin or has a weak spot, it's gonna fail anyway. I think people underestimate how much variation there is between batches even from the same brand.