Gap-osis
E.S. Turner, 6 April 1995
Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty
by Robert Friedel.
Norton, 288 pp., £16.95, February 1995,0 393 03599 9 Show More
by Robert Friedel.
Norton, 288 pp., £16.95, February 1995,
“... poppers, hooks, studs, laces, toggles, drawstrings, safety-pins and even old-time fibulae? But, as Robert Friedel shows, the passion for novelty has become the real mother of invention; necessity rarely enters into it. Today the greatness of a nation is measured by the aggregated lengths of zipper to be found in its people’s wardrobes. The zipper has ... ”