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Spent $40 on a 'vintage' wool coat at a flea market in Austin. Dry rot everywhere.
Everyone raves about finding old Pendleton stuff but I learned the hard way that vintage wool can fall apart if it wasn't stored right. The lining was shredded after one wear and the sleeves got holes within a week. Has anyone actually had luck restoring old coats or am I just unlucky here?
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the_nathan4mo ago
Oh man that sucks lol. I had pretty good luck patching holes with iron-on mending fabric from a craft store and hand stitching the lining back together, but it takes forever and the coat still looks kinda busted up after.
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jamiew534mo ago
Right? Did the same thing last winter and it still looked rough no matter what I did lol.
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skylerrobinson4mo ago
You mentioned "the coat still looks kinda busted up after" - did you try a matching thread color or just whatever you had on hand? @the_nathan that's the part I always mess up, the color matching makes the patch job way more obvious. I spent two hours on a denim jacket once and it still looked like a toddler fixed it lol.
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