Shortening a zipper does not mean you have to have zipper teeth poking into your skin on garments.
Always a buy a zipper that is longer than you need if the perfect length is not available.
Measure the area you want to insert the zipper in to.
How To Shorten a Zipper
By Debbie Colgrove, About.com
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Buying and Measuring a Zipper
Measure the area you want to insert a zipper.
Debbie Colgrove, Licensed to About.com
Zippers come in a wide variety of lengths but they are not always the perfect length for what you want to create or you are sewing. Shortening a zipper for it to fit is not a hard task.
Index: How To Shorten a Zipper
- Buying and Measuring a Zipper
- Measure and Bar Tack the Zipper
- Cutting and Removing Zipper Teeth
- Backing the Cut End
- Finishing a Shortened Zipper
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