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Quick Tips - Keep It Together |
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Written by Vintage Fashion Guild
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Here are just a few quick easy-to-remember tips. These facts don't necessarily place a garment in a year, but they will help narrow it down.
KEEP IT TOGETHER
- Men’s dress trousers continue to have buttons flys thru the 40s.
- Belt loops on men’s pants started in the early 1920s, coexisting with suspender buttons for years.
- Metal zippers were used in galoshes and elsewhere since 1905, not used in men's pants until 1927 or on women’s dresses until the late 1930s.
- YKK - Japan, a zipper company founded in Japan in 1934.
- Talon Zippers - USA - since 1894.
- Lightning Zippers- Canada.
- Eclaire Zippers- France.
- KIN Zippers - Germany.
- Coil zippers - invented in 1940, but not in common usage until the early 60s.
- Side seam zippers - late 1930s-1960s.
- Short CB neck zippers - mostly 1930s-1940s.
- Sleeve zippers - usually associated with the 1930s and 1940s, but can also be seen on narrow sleeves in the 60s-80s.
- Center back dress zippers - seen occasionally in the 1940s and early 50s, but generally later 50s and 60s and almost always from the 70s on.
- Velcro® invented in 1948, not used in clothing much until 1960s.
- Vintage slips, bras and garters have metal hardware, not plastic.
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