Taking Boots In - No Zip

Yes sure we can take a look at them for you ... you may be best to leave them with us so that we can discuss it with Shane as he has done a few without zips, but just to give you an idea of what's involved, your looking at maybe around the $200 mark, and we'd need them for about a week, you OK with that, great I'll get your details and Shane will ring you tomorrow or the next day, have you been into our store before...

Main Steps

1 Measure - Maybe need to unpick

2 Lining

3 Cut uppers

4 Replace back strip

5 Replace Gusset

Baggy Boots on Customers Leg

Boots unpicked and measured

Main Steps Explained

Upper Cut to fit

1 Measure - Maybe need to unpick

If possible just measure as per normal, but sometimes the back strip makes it bulky and hard to measure, so Unpick and measure/mark the overlap

2 Lining

Workout how much to remove and then stitch it up and trim off excess.

3 Cut uppers

Cut a vee off each side

4 Replace back strip

Glue a thin piece of pigskin under the uppers where you are butting them together, this will hold it all in place while you glue and stitch the "back strip" in place.

5 Replace Gusset

May have to remove some upper to make room for the gusset.

Boots with lining takin in

Back Strip on

Room made for Gusset

Gusset back in

Fitting Boots on customer

Taking in boots where there is an additional piece of leather over the top of the back seam.

Unpick that extra piece of leather
Cut down the back of the boot and lining as far as you are going to take them in
Leaving the lining Cut out the excess upper
Use a 20mm wide piece of pigskin as a backing, butt joint the upper back together with glue
Glue that piece of leather back up the outside and stitch
Trim lining neatly and glue it to itself

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