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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Z is for zipper


This photo from Wonderopolis


This is something that most of us use every day when we put on clothes to wear.  It’s so fast and easy to wiggle into those jeans, or slip on a skirt and zip it up.  I’m sure before this was invented, clothes fastened with ties of some sort and maybe later an early button type closure.



 This photo from wikipedia
 
Zippers play a big part in life today, whether it’s clothing, tents for camping, sleeping bags, etc.  So you might want to know a brief history about how the zipper came about.  The zipper was actually thought about as early as 1851 by the inventor of the sewing machine, Elias Howe.  Forty years later another man, Whitcomb Judson, decided to improve on the idea.  He started the Universal Fastener Company to produce the new invention, which he called the clasp locker.  It debuted at the Chicago World Fair in 1893.  The modern zipper was eventually designed by Gideon Sundback in 1913.  He worked at the Universal Fastener Company and got a patent for the device in 1917.  He designed two rows of interlocking teeth that would hook together using a slider.  B F Goodrich Company actually came up with the name for the device.  They used it on a pair of rubber boots and called it the zipper.



 Zipper pulls - photo from wikipedia
 
Twenty years later the fashion industry began using the device.  Look how many zippers we see today on all sorts of things.  We have small zippers and large zippers and zippers in many colors and lengths.  We even have separating zippers for jackets.

Most of the information was researched on Wonderopolis and Wikipedia.

This concludes the A to Z Challenge this year.  I wasn’t sure I’d actually be able to post all the letters this year due to my work schedule, but I made it!  I hope you’ve enjoyed reading.  I still have a lot of blogs to catch up on because I haven’t read near as much of the A to Z as I’d like to.  I will get around to as many as time permits.

6 comments:

  1. When I sewed clothes, I always liked putting in the zipper. Congrats on finishing the challenge!

    Betty

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    1. Betty,

      When I first started sewing zippers were challenging for me. Now they are easy as anything gets with lots of practice.

      I'm glad I finished the challenge too. I wrote a lot of the posts the night before.

      Sunni

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  2. Now I have put in a lot of zippers!
    I knew you would do the challenge this year. Even working through all you have going on you did it!
    http://enchantedfantasies.blogspot.com/

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    1. Thea,

      Somehow I did it! I surprise myself a lot of the time, but I like a good challenge. I must say it's a bit stressful though when you have to write the posts the night before.

      Sunni

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  3. I've even been able to install one in knits. Challenging, but doable.

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    1. Liz,

      Zippers are always a challenge to install. The stretchier the fabric the harder it is. I'm glad you stepped up and did it.

      Sunni

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