Why do zippers say YKK on them?
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Its the name of the company that makes the zippers.\n\nFrom the clothing you wear, the furniture you own, the car you drive, the luggage you carry, and the sports equipment you use, and more, YKK zippers are there.\n\nIn 1960, YKK first entered the United States zipper market as a small sales and assembly operation. Originating in New York's garment district to be near our customers, YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. is now this country's number one supplier of zippers. In Macon, Georgia, in state-of-the-art plants we produce millions of YKK zippers per day in thousands of styles and colors. Does it really take so many plants to make a zipper? Yes, if it's a YKK zipper. Our unique manufacturing process is vertically integrated. Starting with the Brass Wire Plant, where our own brass is produced from high grade copper and zinc in a ratio perfect for zippers, we make zipper teeth (elements) and sliders.\n\nIf you need them, YKK also produces attaching machines. And, we partner with customers to ensure you're getting genuine YKK zippers
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The correct spelling is yarmulke, and is the most commonly known and recognized piece of Jewish garb. However, it is actually the one with the least religious significance. According to some Orthodox and Chasidic rabbis, it comes from the Aramaic words "yerai malka" (fear of or respect for The King).\n\nAn online site to purchase yarmulkes direct from a manufacturer is listed below:
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From the time when the cavalry wore their blues in the field. Jackets would come off to mitigate heat, and get stored. Pants remained and became faded. This eventually became standard. I have included a link to the uniform requirements from 1862 where jackets and 'trowsers' were required to be dark blue.
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The dash and also tk. I don't know what that means.\n\nThanks Jeko. I did not know that.
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Mr. Whitcomb Judson (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent\n\nIt was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept so much in our lives 'together.' On its way up the zipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday costume. The magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper the popular item it is today, but it happened nearly eighty years after the zipper's first appearance.\n\nElias Howe, who invented the sewing machine received a patent in 1851 for an 'Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure.' Perhaps it was the success of the sewing machine, which caused Elias not to pursue marketing his clothing closure. As a result, Howe missed his chance to become the recognized 'Father of the Zip.'\n\nForty-four years later, Mr. Whitcomb Judson (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent. Being first to market gave Whitcomb the credit of being the 'Inventor of the Zipper', However, his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper. The Chicago inventor's 'Clasp Locker' was a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener. Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The clasp locker had its public debut at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and met with little commercial success. \nSwedish-born (who later immigrated to Canada), Gideon Sundback, an electrical engineer, was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led Sundback to the position of head designer at Universal. He was responsible for improving the far from perfect 'Judson C-curity Fastener.' Unfortunately, Sundback's wife died in 1911. The grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913,  he had designed the modern zipper.\n\nGideon Sundback increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven, had two facing-rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. The patent for the 'Separable Fastener' was issued in 1917. Sundback also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. The 'S-L' or scrapless machine took a special Y-shaped wire and cut scoops from it, then punched the scoop dimple and nib, and clamped each scoop on a cloth tape to produce a continuous zipper chain. Within the first year of operation, Sundback's zipper-making machinery was producing a few hundred feet of fastener per day.\n\n\nThe popular 'zipper' name came from the B. F. Goodrich Company, when they decided to use Gideon's fastener on a new type of rubber boots or galoshes and renamed the device the zipper, the name that lasted. Boots and tobacco pouches with a zippered closure were the two chief uses of the zipper during its early years. It took twenty more years to convince the fashion industry to seriously promote the novel closure on garments.\n\nIn the 1930’s, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring zippers. The campaign praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young children by making it possible for them to dress in self-help clothing. The zipper beat the button in the 1937 in the "Battle of the Fly," when French fashion designers raved over zippers in men's trousers. Esquire magazine declared the zipper the "Newest Tailoring Idea for Men" and among the zippered fly's many virtues was that it would exclude "The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray." Obviously, the new zippered trouser owners had not yet discovered the experience
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Its just their style. Just like rappers wear their baggy pants and big gold necklaces. Its just what they like. Its what they like, nothing more nothing less. Fashion
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because people are judgemental. and they like to gawk which is pretty stupid considering we are all the same. Im a freek and proud of it. all juggalos (psychopathic records...Insane clown posse, twiztid,ABK, etc) (not to get it confused with jiggalos.Very different meanings) are freeks and everybody is a freek in their own way.
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Maybe ur gf can explain why ur pants fall off in the evening.
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because guys don't look hot with out their leather pants and chaps.   We look real slim in our leather pants, but when we take them off, that big old beer belly come out of hiding.  ugggh!
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♡Well, I'm not Japanese either, but my hubby is and he pretty much agrees with yozora's hubby, in that at least it's worded correctly and it's not offensive to him. ～It's just plain silly, he actually laughed.(*^o^*) But he said some Japanese T shirts say pretty strange things, so, whatever! I had some of my 'girl' friends over for lunch the other day and I showed it to them... they all giggled! (I live in Japan by the way.) They thought it was amusing that some guy might actually wear that. They said they wouldn't want to be seen with a guy wearing that though. You could probably get a nice Japanese girlfriend easily without the shirt they said. A smile would probably do it. 'Chotto hazukashii!' they said. ～I agree with you, I find it amusing too and the design is in good taste, but I personally wouldn't wear it. (*^o^*)Then again what do I know?♡
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Depends on the actual zipper. Does it have anything written on it?
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zipper, zoo, zebra, zilch, zero, Zorro, zinc
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The individual characters are often esoteric to the manufacturer I believe, but the order is an ISO standard, check the wiki in my source.
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It means that the person who is called smarty pants either does know or think she knows everything. It is not really a compliment, but then again, the person who is saying it is probably joking. People use the word pants instead of ass, which is definitely NOT a compliment.
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Hi bigslow,\nI think it's just another way to confuse someone. Good Luck: Blueladybug
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See that "FedEx truck" parked outside your place?  That's them.  See, everytime a pillow is purchased, the Secret Pillow Intelligence Taskforce (or SPIT) is dispatched to the location of the purchaser of said goods to enforce this important code of law.  I would advise against it.
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You could remove the zipper and sew on a new one, or take it to a dry cleaners, they can put on a new zipper.