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        Garments                                                 Footwear

                                                                Boots were one of the first
        Clothing is a major use                                 items conceptualized for
        for zippers. Early on,                                  improvement with zipper
        the promise of an easier                                technology, used to make
        disrobing backed with                                   fastening and holding
        sexual inuendos was used                                footwear on easier.
        to market zippers.





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                                    Fashion                                                  Functionality


                                    Fashion was a way that                                  Zippers universally add
                                    zippers were used to inno-                              functionality to our lives
                                    vate clothing and ease of                               by increasing the usability
                                    wear.  Although function                                and speed of use of every-
                                    is often the aim or goal,                               day items. They have also
                                    zippers are often also used                             been modified to be water-
                                    to embellish, decorate, or                              proof, outer space com-
                                    adorn. Even the Duke of                                 patible,, and fire resistant,
                                    Windsor was seen as                                     implicating continued use
                                    fashionable for his zipper.                             in the future.


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