Scott 在过去一年里服用减肥药减重 60 磅后，已花费至少 300 美元修改裤子和牛仔裤。
Scott has spent at least $300 to tailor her pants and jeans since losing 60 pounds on weight-loss drugs over the past year.
“我衣柜里的大多数衣服都不合身了，”她说。这位 42 岁的亚特兰大居民，在 YouTube 上以 Lorraine Kamesha 之名为人熟知，她选择修改心爱的裤子，而不是在体重波动期间购买新裤子，其余衣橱则转向快时尚品牌。
"Most of the things in my closet didn't fit anymore," she said. The 42-year-old Atlanta resident, who is known as Lorraine Kamesha to her YouTube followers, has opted to alter her favorite pairs of pants instead of investing in new ones as her weight fluctuates, while turning to fast fashion for the rest of her wardrobe.
服用诺和诺德 Ozempic 和礼来 Mounjaro 等减肥药的美国消费者纷纷求助于修鞋匠和裁缝，试图在减重的同时省钱，部分原因是生活成本挤压，加上美国雇主越来越多地取消 GLP-1 药物保险，导致自付费用上涨。
US consumers taking weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Eli Lilly's Mounjaro have turned to cobblers and tailors as they try to save money while shedding pounds, motivated in part by a cost-of-living squeeze and rising out-of-pocket costs for the drugs as US employers increasingly drop GLP-1 coverage.
过去一年，皮革修补师的服务需求激增，原因是快速减重 —— 不仅是腰带，鞋带和包带也需要根据顾客更苗条的身材进行调整。
Over the past year, leather repairers have seen a spike in requests for their services due to rapid weight loss — not just for belts, but also for shoe and bag strap adjustments tailored to customers' trimmer bodies.
修改服务需求的上升凸显了减肥药如何颠覆零售业，行业某些领域有望受益，而其他领域则难以适应。盖洛普称，约 11% 的美国成年人正在服用 GLP-1 药物减肥，迫使数百万消费者寻找负担得起的方式来翻新衣橱。
The uptick in demand for alterations underscores how weight-loss drugs are upending the retail sector, with some corners of the industry well-positioned to benefit while others struggle to adapt. About 11% of US adults are on GLP-1 drugs to lose weight, according to Gallup, forcing millions of consumers to look for affordable ways to revamp their wardrobes.
拥有 25 家实体店和全国邮寄维修服务的在线鞋包维修店 Cobblers Direct 正在看到其腰带缩短业务实现两位数的同比增长，首席执行官 Stephen Kelly 表示。
Cobblers Direct, an online shoe and handbag repair shop with 25 brick-and-mortar stores in Texas and a nationwide mail-in service, is seeing double-digit year-on-year growth in its belt-shortening business, said CEO Stephen Kelly.
Kelly 称，该公司约 100 名工匠即将从奥斯汀一座近 30,000 平方英尺的新仓库运营，目前每周缩短的腰带多达 500 条。
The company, whose around 100 artisans will soon be operating from a new, nearly 30,000-square-foot warehouse in Austin, is now shortening as much as 500 belts each week, Kelly said.
他说，顾客走进店里时，肩上搭着五六条皮带。在多打几个孔后，有些人要求保留多余的皮带头，作为“荣誉勋章”。“他们会把皮带拿出来，展示原来有多长。然后再把它塞回腰间，”凯利说。
Customers, he said, have been walking into the stores with five or six belts slung across their shoulder. After getting a few more holes punched in, some have asked to keep the extra flap of leather as a "badge of honor." "They'll pull their belt out and show how long their belt originally was. And then they tuck it back into their waistline," Kelly said.
据远程医疗平台特里米对700多名使用减肥药的美国成年人进行的调查，约80%的GLP-1使用者穿着不再合身的衣服，平均等待六个月后才购买新衣物。调查发现，牛仔裤是受影响最严重的服装，90%的使用者抱怨尺码不合。
About 80% of GLP-1 users are living in clothes that no longer fit, waiting six months on average before buying anything new, according to a survey of more than 700 US adults using weight-loss drugs by telehealth platform Trimi. Jeans are the most disrupted article of clothing, the survey found, with 90% of users lamenting poor fit.
剑桥大学的研究人员今年发现，停用减肥药后，人们平均在一年内会重新增加60%的减重体重，这也增加了用户不愿全面置换整套衣橱的顾虑。
After going off weight-loss drugs, people regain on average 60% of their lost weight within a year, researchers at the University of Cambridge found this year, adding to users' reluctance to go all-in on an entirely new wardrobe.
在曼哈顿家族经营的吉姆鞋匠礼宾店，去年顾客开始成批带来皮带，客户关系主管CJ·布尔戈斯表示——这一趋势如此普遍，以至于该店将其称为“带-zempic”。布尔戈斯说，GLP-1使用者甚至发现自己的脚变小了，导致鞋子调整业务增加。
At family-owned Jim's Cobbler Concierge in Manhattan, customers last year started bringing in belts by the dozens, said client relations director CJ Burgos — a trend so sweeping that the store has dubbed it "belt-zempic." GLP-1 users are even seeing their feet shrink, Burgos said, prompting an uptick in shoe adjustments.
“这帮了生意，但我们也帮客户省了钱，”布尔戈斯说，他自己在使用奥西姆皮克减重约60磅后，也带来皮带进行缩短。
"It's helped the business, but we've also helped clients save," said Burgos, who has also brought in belts to shorten since losing about 60 pounds on Ozempic.
GLP-1使用者正在多方面“勒紧腰带”。这些药物在美国的日益流行，也正在推动折扣连锁店、旧货店和二手服装平台的发展，因为许多用户在体型仍在变化期间，不愿大肆购买新衣服。
GLP-1 users are tightening their belts in more ways than one. The drugs' surging popularity in the US is also boosting discount chains, thrift shops and secondhand clothing platforms as many users refrain from splurging on new clothes while their size remains in flux.
与其他商业顺风相比，GLP-1的独特之处在于“规模和速度”，在线旧货店ThredUp首席战略官阿隆·罗特姆说。
Compared to other business tailwinds, what sets GLP-1s apart is "the scale and speed," said Alon Rotem, chief strategy officer at online thrift store ThredUp.
购物者正转向更小的尺码，尤其是在购买牛仔裤时：Rotem 表示，起始腰围超过 28 码的买家中，有 43% 现在购买的牛仔裤比他们加入 ThredUp 时更小。
Shoppers are shifting to smaller sizes, especially when buying jeans: 43% of buyers who started above a waist size 28 are now buying smaller jeans than when they joined ThredUp, Rotem said.
在线个人造型服务 Stitch Fix 正提供更多可调节尺码和弹力面料，以便体重快速下降的人群拥有“合适的服装来帮助他们跨越多个尺码”，首席执行官 Matt Baer 表示。他估计，该公司至少 20% 的新客户正在服用 GLP-1 类药物，并寻求帮助寻找新尺码。
Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service, is now offering more adjustable sizing and stretchy fabrics so that people who are rapidly losing weight have the "right apparel to help them bridge multiple sizes," said CEO Matt Baer. He estimated that at least 20% of the company's new clients are on a GLP-1 medication and looking for help finding new sizes.
ThredUp 的 Rotem 表示：“我们一直知道，二手交易和旧货购买是处于人生转型期人群的非常热门的选择。随着 GLP-1 类药物的出现，处于人生转型期的人群变得更多，我们正加大在这一领域的投入。”
"We've always known that resale and thrift are very popular choices for people in life transition," said Rotem of ThredUp. "As we see that there are many more people in life transition with the advent of GLP-1s, we're leaning into that."