The technique I used was very expedient (i.e. quick and dirty) but the upside is that you can do it with almost any kind of zippers – boots, jeans, backpacks, dresses.

The basic idea is to take the “end stop” off one side, and thread the teeth through.
Once you have the zipper back in roughly the right place, you can zhoozh it back and forth to settle the teeth in the right formation, then replace the “end stop” with a few windings with needle and thread.

The (what should be closed) bottom end has a nasty habit of re-opening from the wrong end sometimes when the zipper is closed. So we sew that together as well.

This week, my daughter got a pair of boots delivered with the zipper only attached to one side of the teeth. Perfect example. So I made this video in roughly half an hour.

I used some magnifying glasses, and some tiny pliers this time, but I’ve done it many times before with almost no tools except a regular needle and thread and some brute force. Broken a nail or two doing it as well, hence the pliers this time 😉