Discovered in the 1890s, no one wanted to use the zipper for 30 years. Today, however, it can be found everywhere from jackets to shoes, pants to bags.

In the 1890s, tired of his wife's complaints about her swollen fingers from sewing on buttons, Whitcomb Judson discovers a device he calls the “slippery-stick” and patents it as a tool used in shoes. In 1913, a Swedish engineer named Gideon Sundback improves on the difficult-to-use and quickly deteriorating slippery-stick and creates the zipper used today.

The zipper, which did not find many users at first, became fashionable in clothing in the 1930s when the British Crown Prince started wearing pants with zippers. During the Second World War, zipper production in the world reaches 300,000,000 pieces.

The zipper is first produced only in Europe and America. Zippers, which frequently broke down in the first years of production, can be opened and closed an average of 12,000 times in their current form. In terms of fashion, the zipper, which has been constantly changing over the long years of use, is still indispensable today.