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