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zip fastener

Fastening device used in clothing, patented in the USA by Whitcomb Judson in 1893, originally for doing up shoes. It has two sets of interlocking teeth, meshed by means of a slide that moves up and down. It became widely used in the clothing industry in the 1930s.
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