Calamityjane88 wrote:
jsmith82 wrote:
Summary: I absolutely love the fit and performance of the LG Course M2 skin suit, but the zipper tears my neck to shreds. LG has even sent me a second suit thinking it was a manufacturing error. For some reason, this suit just rips me up at the neck.
I'd like to sew in a zipper guard. Doesn't seem too hard to do, my wife has the talent and the machine to properly get it done. I was thinking a 2 inch flap of fabric that would completely hide the zipper top to bottom.
Any recommendations on fabric type? Anyone made a DIY alteration like this before?
I've never done what you're suggesting, but I think it's interesting.
I'm not sure sewing is better than gluing if you're talking about attaching fabric to the spongy-plastic material of your wetsuit. Wetsuit material tears really easily, and sewing will make a line of holes, perforations, that might just open up.
If you're planning to attach the fabric to the thin line of zipper fabric, that might be possible. That seems like a tricky, small space. It could work, so long as the fabric doesn't get into and jam up the zipper.
Are you talking a flap of fabric that goes the whole length of the zipper or just at the neck where it rips you up? Maybe try to fix just that small section.
For the flap fabric, you have a lot of options. My first thought is that fake fur is fun! But I'm being silly. I think you'd want to go to the fabric store and buy several options to test out. Also get some glue-on Velcro patches because they might be handy.
Thanks for the reply. To clarify this isn't a wetsuit or swim skin, this is a tri suit (as pictured below). They call it a skin suit, I should have been more specific. There is just enough fabric to the side of the zipper to run a decent stitch right up the chest without sewing directly on the thin suit itself, I'm just debating what fabric to use, a little lost in that department :)
Regards,
J. Smith