Restring waist tie on old combat shirt:

[1980private]

Has anyone replaced a waist line string on the old combat shirts?How did you do it? Have a shirt from the 1980s and missing the line.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Put a safety pin on one end of the string and feed it through the fabric channel.

 

[1980private]

Put a safety pin on one end of the string and feed it through the fabric channel.

Spoken from someone who never has done it. Can I PLEASE hear from someone who actually restrung a combat shirt PLEASE!?

 

[Remius]

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I realise this is a stressor for you but his suggestion isn’t wrong.

 

[ModlrMike]

Alternatively, you could feed a wire coat hanger trough, and then tie the string onto the end of that.

 

[1980private]

Alternatively, you could feed a wire coat hanger trough, and then tie the string onto the end of that.

I take it yo never done it either.

 

[dapaterson]

So rather than explain why the suggestions won't work for you, you instead dismiss people with boots with more years of service than you have alive.

Good luck in life .

 

[Blackadder1916]

I take it yo never done it either.

When we had old, damaged, clapped out combats we brought them into stores and traded them in for serviceable items. Sometimes we were lucky and they actually exchanged them for new items.

 

[RangerRay]

I take it yo never done it either.

Well, I was going to make the same suggestion since I’ve actually done before, but you can go piss up a rope instead.

 

[OldSolduer]

Well, I was going to make the same suggestion since I’ve actually done before, but you can go piss up a rope instead.

That would be a feat in itself.

 

[1980private]

So rather than explain why the suggestions won't work for you, you instead dismiss people with boots with more years of service than you have alive.

Good luck in life .

Anyone seen the hole where the string goes in and the path it takes knows that what was suggested will not work. they are not sweats or jacket hoodies.

 

[dapaterson]

Anyone seen the hole where the string goes in and the path it takes knows that what was suggested will not work. they are not sweats or jacket hoodies.

There are multiple versions of combat shirts. There are multiple sizes of safety pins.

And everyone who has offered help has worn such clothes for decades.

 

[1980private]

So rather than explain why the suggestions won't work for you, you instead dismiss people with boots with more years of service than you have alive.

Good luck in life .

oh and by the way, served from the start of the 80s through the 90s.

 

[1980private]

Well, I was going to make the same suggestion since I’ve actually done before, but you can go piss up a rope instead.

combats are not the same as sweats which all the suggestions would work. waist cord is not like the hillbilly strap around sweatpants or the cord on hoodies. if anyone did it on combats would know it with out anyone saying it

 

[Remius]

oh and by the way, served from the start of the 80s through the 90s.

Tough decades for waist coords…

 

[OldSolduer]

Tough decades for waist coords…

I cut them off. I hated them

 

[PMedMoe]

I cut them off. I hated them

I left mine in but tied them off in a loop.

 

[Navy_Pete]

combats are not the same as sweats which all the suggestions would work. waist cord is not like the hillbilly strap around sweatpants or the cord on hoodies. if anyone did it on combats would know it with out anyone saying it

If you don't like anyone's suggestions why did you ask to begin with?

It's also just fabric, if you can't get a wire through a fabric tunnel to pull a cord through, pop some stitches and figure it out. Pretty sure everyone has done stich and bitch sessions at some point in their career.

 

[ArmyRick]

Anyone seen the hole where the string goes in and the path it takes knows that what was suggested will not work. they are not sweats or jacket hoodies.

Stop asking if your not going to listen.

 

[ArmyRick]

combats are not the same as sweats which all the suggestions would work. waist cord is not like the hillbilly strap around sweatpants or the cord on hoodies. if anyone did it on combats would know it with out anyone saying it

How much time in do you have? Many of us wore that old uniform for a long time and know it cold. I suggest you knock off the dismissive attitude and start listening.