RETURNING TO EUROPEAN SLOPES THIS WINTER: THE PATAGONIA WORN WEAR TOUR

This Winter, Patagonia’s Worn Wear repair team will return to mountain towns and resorts around Europe for the Patagonia Worn Wear Snow Tour 2025.

The rolling repair shop will travel to snow destinations across the Alps and the UK and will offer skiers and snowboarders free repairs on busted zippers, rips, tears, buttons, pulls and more, as well as teaching people how to fix their own gear.

The Worn Wear initiative encourages customers to extend the lifetime of their garments. Patagonia’s repair team onboard will offer free repairs on any brand of clothing, on a first come, first served basis.

“As the snow season shrinks and the climate emergency increases, those of us who love to play in wild places need to take greater responsibility for our impact. A good first step is taking care of our snow gear and fixing rips and tears so it lasts for years. That’s why the Patagonia repair crew are hitting the road again this year to make repair easier than buying new.” – Tyler LaMotte, Marketing & Product Director EMEA 

Patagonia’s wooden trailer has been hand-built to be able to travel to the toughest locations around Europe. It will house technical repair equipment and will bring hot chocolate and good vibes to the slopes. The Worn Wear repair team will also educate people on how to keep snow gear in good condition for multiple seasons and will teach skills such as patching, re-waterproofing shells and fixing zippers.

Why Worn Wear? 

• Patagonia’s Worn Wear programme was created in 2013 to encourage people to take good care of their gear, washing and repairing as needed. 
• Extending the life of our garments, through proper care and repair, is the single most important thing we can do to lower our impact on the planet and reduces the need to buy more over time — thereby avoiding the CO2 emissions, waste output, and water usage required to build it. 
• By keeping our clothing in use just nine extra months, we can reduce related carbon, waste and water footprints by 20-30 percent each, according to the UK-based group WRAP – simply because we’re making and throwing away less. 
• To scale repairs across Europe, Patagonia has partnered with the United Repair Centre and opened repair facilities in Amsterdam and London with the goal of repairing 100,000 pieces of clothing per year by 2028.

Worn Wear in numbers

• Over 30 Worn Wear Repair events were hosted throughout Europe last year
• Our Worn Wear teams were able to fix more than 2,400 pieces of clothing
• In total, Patagonia was able to repair around 30,000 pieces of clothing in Europe in 2024
• Globally, more than 110 repair locations fix Patagonia clothing for free, or for a nominal charge
• 15 repair partners across Europe are fixing Patagonia garments for our customers