again. The fashion changed to have as many buttons on a piece of clothing as possible, such as along the sleeves or down the legs. The user wore buttons that actually buttoned,but the buttons were primarily used for decoration. One story goes that the French king in 1520 had a black velvet suit with 13,400 gold buttons.
The zipper has an opposite story. It was originally designed as a fastener . But its originator thought that his invention would fasten boots,not clothing. He was Whitcomb Judson, a mechanical engineer. He showed his invention at the big event of the day, the Chicago World's FAIR OF 1893. BUT THE FIRST ZIPPERS to seal postal bags, but they didn't work well, and the experimant was soon abandoned . Another man by the name of Gideon Sundback made improvements to the zipper, and more and more people began to use them.Zippers, however, were still considered strange and novel objects -they originally came with instructions on how to use them.