just a warning to avoid a men's swimsuit, made by a very well-known swimming gear manufacturer, with the model name of "endurance+ jammers". It has a stitched seam that goes up the back of the suit. This seam may fail. It happened to me today, was plenty embarrassing.
I've heard of suit failures but I didn't expect it to happen from this manufacturer, from a suit designed for endurance. If you compete at all or train a lot I'd be sure to replace it with a suit that doesn't have a seam in that particular location.
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I can't really say I've ever seen a "catastrophic failure" of the seam in a swimsuit. It seems like they usually start to unravel gradually.
Did the seam really give out or did the suit tear at the seam? Those seams are all serged and pretty strong.
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?
Serging isn't all that strong. Whenever I've had to undo a serger seam in something I've made (it's not a proper sewing project if I don't have to redo at least one thing :frustrated:) I've simply pulled the needle threads through and the looper threads just fell off. No seam ripper required, especially with a 3-thread seam. With 4-thread, there's an extra needle thread to secure things, and I don't think too many things are made 3-thread any more. If the seam looks as though it has two rows of straight stitching at the bottom of the wrap-around looper threads, it's a 4-thread seam. If it appears to have only one row, you might want to give it a miss.
I can't really say I've ever seen a "catastrophic failure" of the seam in a swimsuit. It seems like they usually start to unravel gradually.
Did the seam really give out or did the suit tear at the seam? Those seams are all serged and pretty strong.
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?
Serging isn't all that strong. Whenever I've had to undo a serger seam in something I've made (it's not a proper sewing project if I don't have to redo at least one thing :frustrated:) I've simply pulled the needle threads through and the looper threads just fell off. No seam ripper required, especially with a 3-thread seam. With 4-thread, there's an extra needle thread to secure things, and I don't think too many things are made 3-thread any more. If the seam looks as though it has two rows of straight stitching at the bottom of the wrap-around looper threads, it's a 4-thread seam. If it appears to have only one row, you might want to give it a miss.
