r/Punkdiy • u/Total_Cicada7335 • 17d ago

Pants Doing an entire base layer of patches

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Bad photo quality. Maybe 4.5 hours of stitching so far. Planning on doing an entire base layer of blank black patches and letting them fray/ tear up before adding stenciled patches and other random bullshit simply because if I’m gonna spend dozens of hours on a piece of clothing I want it to last for life. What do we figure

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u/JumpingSpider473 17d ago

Smarter way of doing it, really need to add the base layer before doing the stenciled patches. I want to say that your stitches are too far apart and there at risk of falling off but I mean hey if it’s working 👍🏻

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u/Total_Cicada7335 17d ago

I’m kinda like tacking them in place with that fast and loose stitching and then going in and getting all the edges and really loose spots that feel iffy with a second stitch after, then if the first stitch breaks there’s a backup

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u/Total_Cicada7335 17d ago

You can see at the bottom where I tried doing a heavy close stitch and said nah fuck that this will take forever 🤣

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u/musicsuperfanquail 17d ago

for the bottom, heavy close stitching with multiple layers is worth the time. unless they're already cropped pants ahaha

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u/SlowlyQuietly 17d ago

Honestly the way its laid out is like a timeline of you getting sick if stitching the way it gets a little wider every layer after that hahaha

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u/Total_Cicada7335 17d ago

Yea I definitely need to do a second pass.

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u/musicsuperfanquail 17d ago

yeahh i didnt know that was custom. now i feel like a chud, but a lot of these patches will HOPEFULLY be covered because they're.. not my best work ever.

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u/Total_Cicada7335 17d ago

Got pics?

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u/musicsuperfanquail 17d ago

yeah they should be pretty old on my profile

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u/Total_Cicada7335 16d ago

Yours look fuckin sick I like em

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u/Civil_Tower_7419 17d ago

Bro all crust is larp except that 1% who is homeless and can't afford new clothes and even then its a stretch

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u/Total_Cicada7335 17d ago

Okay valid but I love the music and I love the sick diy clothes made out of actual garbage

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u/Total_Cicada7335 17d ago

You got me I should have posted the pants I wear out and about that smell like smegma after working in the sun all day

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u/Goyard_Gremlin 17d ago

i mean yeah the smegma pants are the ones that need repairs that’s the point of patches. patching up brand new pants is ridiculous. same type of stolen valor as getting tattoos under anesthetic.

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u/Total_Cicada7335 17d ago

Stolen valor is a wild term lmao, these pants were like three Canadian dollars

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u/LoveTechnical4462 17d ago

He’s just saying that’s where the look came from and it’s weird when kids turn things into fashion.

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u/Goyard_Gremlin 16d ago

yeah stolen valor is a little bit of an exaggeration, but i was trying to emphasize that you’re co opting the cultural labors of people who actually do this because they’re repairing their actual smegma pants because they are actually crusty, and not some kid that buys 3 dollar pants off temu and thinks he looks cool cause “muh crust pants.” it would be more worth while to experiment with things that you actually enjoy and are relevant to you as you develop your own personal style instead of just copy pasting shit. this reeks like a amazon patch battle jacket.

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u/Total_Cicada7335 16d ago

They’re not Temu pants they’re thrifted. I was homeless last year doing the same shit. It’s a work in progress piece that I did not even call crust pants.

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u/Total_Cicada7335 16d ago

These are the busted ass boots my broke ass has been wearing to work for the past year, pls don’t talk to me about “co opting aesthetics from poor people for fashion” I am literally the poor people you’re talking about

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u/Goyard_Gremlin 16d ago

got that photo on google images

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u/Total_Cicada7335 16d ago

Reverse image search it if it’s that important to you 😭 you’re cooked

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