Suede jacket fringe removal

[ZeroDelta]

Has anyone tried removing fringe from a suede jacket. I am looking for vintage suede jackets and a lot have fringe but I hate fringe. I was wondering if I could buy a fringe jacket and carefully remove the fringe with out ending up with a monstrosity. Anyone have any experience with doing this?

 

[handymike]

I mistakenly removed the fringe from a jacket.
It can be easily done with an exacto-blade or a metal ruler and utility knife.

 

[El Marro]

I mistakenly removed the fringe from a jacket.
It can be easily done with an exacto-blade or a metal ruler and utility knife.

I was just going to mention your experience as a cautionary tale but you beat me to it. The fact of the matter is that the soul of a jacket lives in the fringe, remove the fringe and you kill the soul.

 

[ZeroDelta]

I mistakenly removed the fringe from a jacket.
It can be easily done with an exacto-blade or a metal ruler and utility knife.

Did the Jacket look okay afterwards?

 

[Aloysius]

Has anyone tried removing fringe from a suede jacket. I am looking for vintage suede jackets and a lot have fringe but I hate fringe. I was wondering if I could buy a fringe jacket and carefully remove the fringe with out ending up with a monstrosity. Anyone have any experience with doing this?

It'll look bad without it, because the design is balanced around the fringe, so all you'll be doing is taking a vintage fringe jacket out of the world that someone else would have appreciated.

 

[ZeroDelta]

I guess I will just be patient lol. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Yango]

My brother had a brown suede jacket that had fringes. He cut them off with a razor blade, and the jacket looked great. It went from a closet hanger to a jacket that he wore all the time—and you couldn’t even see where the fringes had been.

His jacket looked something like this before he cut off the fringes. This is a Schott Western Fringe.