Seamstresses in Springfield, KY

I've had tailors fix zippers on moto jackets, but I haven't had anything tailored. Touring companies like aerostich have a lot more sizes to offer and custom suit alterations. I know some places do custom race suits. Find someone who works on leather, it requires a different set of tools to what a suit shop like MW would use. I've found all moto gear and moto companies fit radically different. Scorpion, Cortech, and revit gear fit me pretty well, while Astars, Dainese, Spidi, Icon, Joe Rocket, and S&S do not. Find a store and try on everything....that's what I have done over the years. I do have some poorly fitting gear from when I first started, but it was cheap and I was poor.

I broke two zippers in one season. I know your probably saying hit the gym you fat fuck, but it was really just bad timing. One had been hanging up for a long time and finally gave up. Another broke at the bottom of the zipper. I had a tailor put new zippers on both. He was pretty easily able to remove the zipper that came on the jacket and put a new one on. I'd imagine they would be able to do this same thing but pull the jacket in to make it fit a little more snug for you. It took a long time to find a tailor that worked with leather. I probably called 15 or 20 places all over the state. I finally found one at a laundry/ dry cleaning place. They are the kind of place that does uniform pick ups and drop offs for businesses and industrial kind of work like huge expensive rug cleaning. He was their in house tailor and was comfortable working with and altering motorcycle leather and understood the safety aspect of having the jacket remain close to as it came from the factory. Both jackets just the heaviest gauge style YKK metal zipper that was double stitched on both sides. There are some places that you can send the jacket online, like Lizzy leathers that will do the work for you, but I wanted to find a local place.

I have. You need somebody who's comfortable working on leather. They also need to understand that the seams on your gear is different than on dress pants. Motorcycle leathers ofter use double stitching and/or seam folding. The double stitching is self explanatory. The seam fold is a way of protecting the main stitch. The manufacturer folds a flap of leather over the main stitch and then sews that down. http://www.motorcyclelegalfoundation.com/choosing-the-safest-motorcycle-jacket/

Not altered, but my jacket is basically tailor made and fits me well. Had a low speed crash in it once, and it held up fine (had to be fixed afterwards, as the leather got really thin, but the stitches did not fell apart...). The tailor needs to use a good thread. Needs to be very strong, and perhaps even slightly elastic (not completely rigid) and large enough to not tear the leather. Probably nylon thread... The way things are sewn together is also usually different than on a common dress, of the tailor uses the wrong stitch pattern/design/seam, it could easily tear the leather or the thread apart in a crash...