The List: The best jeans tailors in the UK

When Thread's stylists—and the denim experts at the likes of Acne, Diesel and Nudie—are faced with a rip or massive hole in their favourite pair of jeans, they don't even think about binning them. And when their jeans are so long they swamp their shoes, they don't just put them on anyway. 

Instead, people who know denim bring jeans to get shortened or repaired at one of a bunch of British tailors that specialise in two things—patching denim so former holes are forgotten, and the strong chain stitching that makes jeans look like jeans.

Here, the best jeans tailors in the UK.

Brighton

• Hugo Morris
• Hemming from £12
• Patching from £10
• Address: 21 Brighton Square, Brighton BN1 1HD
• Phone: 01273 617052

Bristol

• Territo Tailors
• Hemming from £12
• Patching from £10
• Address: 33A Park St, Bristol BS1 5NH
• Phone: 0117 927 3130

Leeds

• Stitches
• Hemming from £10.50
• Patching £8–£12
• Address: 39 The Headrow, Leeds LS1 6PU
• Phone: 0113 345 3155 

London – Soho

• Simply Tailored on Liberty's first floor
  • Hemming from £19
  • Patching  £25–45
  • Address  Regent Street, W1B 5AH
  • Phone: 020 7573 9533

• Nudie Jeans Repair Shop
  • Free repairs and hemming, but only for Nudie jeans
  • Address  29 D'Arblay Street, W1F 8EP
  • Phone 020 7494 3655

London - Shoreditch

• Son of a Stag
  • Hemming from £20
  • Patching from £15
  • Address The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL
  • Phone: 020 7247 3333

• Nudie Jeans Repair Shop
  • Free repairs and hemming, but only for Nudie jeans
  • Address 19–29 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ
  • Phone: 020 7729 8865

London – Covent Garden

• Dale at Maurice Alteration Services
  • Hemming from £11
  • Patching prices vary
  • Address 71 Endell Street, Mews Yard, WC2H 9AJ
  • Phone: 020 7845 7760

London – Battersea

• Designer Alterations
  • Hemming from £20
  • Patching from £25
  • Address 14 Ingate Pl, SW8 3SN
  • Phone 020 3011 5517

Manchester

• The Denim Doctor
  • Hemming from £10
  • Patching from £13
  • Address James Binney House, 2nd floor, 52 Cross Street, M2 7AR
  • Phone 0161 8327678
  • He also does speedy mail service from anywhere in the UK

Newcastle

• M&J Alterations
  • Hemming £8
  • Patching £10
  • Address 42 Pilgrim St, NE1 6SE
  • Phone 0191 261 9992

Nottingham

• Apalts
  
  • Hemming from £11
  • Patching around £10 
  • Address 22 Carlton St, Nottingham NG1 1NN
  • Phone  01159417747