PSA: Cut your vent stitch!!

[Anonymous]

It's that time of year again, when people all over DC will be donning their new coats, and going out in public with the vents still stitched closed. That stitch is to make the coat ship/ hang nicely. You are meant to remove it. Leaving it stitched is akin to going out with the tags still on.
Same for that manufacturer label on the cuff. Take it off, or look like a rube.

[Anonymous]

Yesssss! I see this all the time and think, do they really not know to do this?

[Anonymous]

Oh man…I remember in my 20’s knowing a guy who absolutely INSISTED that you were supposed to leave the label on the sleeve. He thought that that was how everyone was supposed to know who made your expensive coat. He was such a condescending dick about it, too. I like thinking about him walking around everywhere with that label on his sleeve, lol

[Anonymous]

I am 45 years old and have no idea what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Do you buy decent quality jackets? Is/are there a slit or two in the back? Vent! Or vents! Manufacturer stitches them shut at the bottom to make them ship better.
Cut that tacking stitch and let your flap fly free!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's that time of year again, when people all over DC will be donning their new coats, and going out in public with the vents still stitched closed. That stitch is to make the coat ship/ hang nicely. You are meant to remove it. Leaving it stitched is akin to going out with the tags still on.
Same for that manufacturer label on the cuff. Take it off, or look like a rube.

Every year I end up telling law school interviewees to do this because they arrive with those stitches still in. Surprised their counselors don’t spot this before the interviews begin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 45 years old and have no idea what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 45 years old and have no idea what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

I definitely went through my 20s not realizing you were supposed to cut the vent stitch. It now seems obvious to me, but I *was* a rube. I'd never had a wool dress coat as a kid, and didn't have the kind of parents who would know stuff like that and teach me what to do. So you buy a coat off the rack, it comes with that stitch, it doesn't necessarily occur to you that you should remove it -- the coat doesn't have any instructions.

They actually should put a little note on the tag with directions for cutting off the vent stitch and anything else (like a manufacturers tag). Some people genuinely just don't know!

[Anonymous]

And the little string loops holding belts on pieces like dresses. Those are to keep the belt with the item before being sold

[Anonymous]

It's to separate "class" from income, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the little string loops holding belts on pieces like dresses. Those are to keep the belt with the item before being sold

Yes, that needs a PSA too.

And who can ignore that most egregious example of manufacturer-convenience, those ribbons sewed into the shoulders of fast fashion tops. practically every woman under 35 in my office has shown up occasionally hanger ribbons hanging out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's to separate "class" from income, lol.

Don’t be a jerk. Everything you know, you learned somewhere. This might be where someone learns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the little string loops holding belts on pieces like dresses. Those are to keep the belt with the item before being sold

Uh no, those fabric loops are meant to hold belts in place on the dress, otherwise if the dress waist doesn’t hit at your natural waist, the belt will slide and inch or two to your natural waste, leaving you with effectively two waists on your dress. Completely different than the venting stitch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the little string loops holding belts on pieces like dresses. Those are to keep the belt with the item before being sold

Uh no, those fabric loops are meant to hold belts in place on the dress, otherwise if the dress waist doesn’t hit at your natural waist, the belt will slide and inch or two to your natural waste, leaving you with effectively two waists on your dress. Completely different than the venting stitch.

I've wondered about this, because they are sewn in pretty tight (unlike vent stitches) but they are SO HUGE, usually much bigger than the belt. Because they're large, they don't actually hold the belt in place, and they always show. I end up cutting them off anyway.