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I am wearing my favourite pair of jeans (to work!), and for whatever reason, the fly zip seems to be both frictionless and gravitationally obedient. Hence, it tends to slide down of its own accord at regular intervals.

Needless to say, this is becoming a bit embarrassing. Without resorting to a tailors, is there any way I can keep it up?

B

Safety pin!

It’ll work as a temporary measure anyway.

I just *had* to see who's unknowingly flashing their workmates...

Heehee.

OK. So have you got a safety pin anyway near? They usually do the job - you can anchor the zip at the top of the fly, and it should stay up.

One of the scourges of being well endowed...

Get a bit of cotton from one of the seams and jam it in there. Also make sure that the little pully bit is laying down along the zip (this is what's supposed to stop it coming undone).

My flies are always falling down especially if I find a pair of comfy trousers...think I'm just the ideal shape for zip slippage, I wish button flies where more common.

Ooh. I love button flies. But eventually, they wear out too. And it's harder to fix them...

He’d have less of a problem if the stole some jeans from his brother.

Hmmm...no safety pins, no loose strands of cotton (new jeans).

I prefer button-flies too, despite the fact they make me look like an old man.

They're a bit more inconvenient for toilet stops, though. There's nothing more embarrassing than elbowing the blokes on either side of you at the urinal while fiddling with your buttons.

B

*points and does Nelson laugh* HA HA!

Elastic band through the top of the zip and then round the button at the top of the jeans?

Well I don’t know it might work!

Far worse than button flies for toilet stops are those stupid tie up jeans...nothing worse than being desparate for a wee only to discover a knot

So far as further advice goes you could do what hubby does...undo buttons and fly and stay seated with shirt covering

Also hairspray/gel might work to make the zip a bit more sticky...or you could try some jam

Before I opened this thread I had a private bet with myself that this thread was started by B...

My internal bookmaker refused to quote me a starting price!

Or paper clip hooked through the loop and around the button?

Hmmm...top suggestion so far is sitting around with my trousers undone, I have to say.

B

Smear the zip with pritt stick- it's just sticky enough to make it stay up, but won't stop you pulling it down. I speak from experience here- a number of my pairs of trousers suffer from this problem

Stand on your head all day long, that'll fix it

I have that problem on a pair of my jeans. It got even worse when the button at the top broke and was lost. I tried safety pinnig it, but the inherent stresses in trouser architecture made this untenable.

So I just let it fall and pull it up when I remember...

Sounds like it needs a new battery.

I'd say, wear your underpants on the outside of your jeans for the rest of the day.

A handy phone-box makes the best changing room, I believe.

Take a poll round the office.

You never know but someone may be able to sew you up if they're carrying the necessary in their .

That'll make certain biological functions a bit tricky