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Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty

Door Robert Friedel

Categorie	Mode, Kostuums & Verzorging
Boeknummer	#365439-ZA36
Titel	Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty
Auteur	Friedel, Robert
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	0393313654
ISBN13	9780393313659
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The story of the zipper is the triumph of an ingenious novelty over the practical world. It is almost impossible to imagine modern life without this device; yet for the first thirty years or so, from its patent in the late nineteenth century, it represented no real advantage over traditional fasteners like the hook-and-eye or the old-fashioned button. The zipper was mechanically awkward, liable to rust, liable to fail (i. e., snag or burst open), and so expensive that it doubled the retail price of a skirt or a pair of pants. But from the beginning the zipper had an allure, a mystery, a kind of sex appeal that would be echoed in songs, poems, and popular novels. Robert Friedel has written a fascinating history—full of strange twists, paradoxes, and interesting characters—of th... (Lees verder)is signature gadget of the twentieth century. Inventor Whitcomb Judson (whose efforts lay mostly in patenting a doomed undertaking known as the Pneumatic Streetcar) gave the zipper life; businessman Colonel Lewis Walker had the capital and the faith to back it for forty years; and cultural icons such as Marlon Brando, Erica Jong, and the Rolling Stones helped to turn it into a symbol for sexuality and style. Not just the story of a distinctive technology, Zipper is an entertaining, informative examination of how new things become part of our daily lives, shaping how we think and act.
Pagina's	288
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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