Today, thanks to Google's adorable doodle we all know that it is the birthday of Gideon Sundbäck!
Who? You say....
The man who invented the Zip, Zipper, Zippy or Zip-Zip whatever you want to call it
Zip is such a funny word when you think about it, the word zip actually sounds like the noise that a zip makes! Maybe that's why he called it that!
Look at all these great things that never would have come to be if it wasn't for good ol' Gideon...
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| Zippy! You'll remember this if you were around in the 80s/90s |
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| A purse made entirely of zips! |
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| A dress made of zips, something about this doesn't seem so classy though; although you could unzip certain sections to make your dress look diferent each time- or to cool off, while keeping it modest! |
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| A trainer that with a few unzips- becomes a flip flop! Great space saver |
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| And the only thing that I might actually wear among this stash- these zippy boots, although imagine the annoying 'jingle-jangle' every time you walked! |
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A Zip file! If it wasn't for Gideon maybe they'd be called velcro files, or popper files!
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Zips are surprisingly important when I think about it, I'm more inclined to buy bags and purses with zip fastenings because they feel safer, but maybe that's just me!
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