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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult."''
|'''[[Tom Robbins]]''', ''Jitterbug Perfume''}}
[[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!|Excuse me]], but if we don't leave soon, we're going to be late for that [[Masquerade Ball|uppercrust party]] to which we were invited. What do you mean, you need help with your dress? What's wrong with it? You can't reach the zipper? Fine, I'll help you.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Sister Princess]]'' the main character Wataru does this to Sakuya... one of his sisters... [[Brother-Sister Incest|huh...]]
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'': while changing into a hospital gown to prepare for her prosthetic body switch, Motoko Kusanagi asks her female companion Kurutan (there to witness the body swap) to zip her up, the point of the exercise ultimately being an excuse to [[Fan Service|show the Major's backside on screen]].
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== Film ==
* In Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[Vertigo]]'', Judy (dolled up as Madeleine, Scottie's dead lover) asks Scottie to clasp a necklace for her. This is the turning point in the movie, since Scottie {{spoiler|recognizes the necklace from when Judy ''was'' Madeleine and realizes that the real Madeleine was murdered}} and everything begins to unravel.
* Used in ''[[Die Another Day]]'', with a fencing instructor's corset:
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== Literature ==
* ''I Was a Teenaged T-Rex'', which had four teenagers flung back in time and into the bodies of dinosaurs, had the girl who'd become a Protoceratops - and who wanted to wear clothes despite having nothing to cover - tell this line to the boy who'd become a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]. He couldn't tie her shell brassiere with his tiny arms, so the girl who'd become a Quetzalocoatlus did it instead. The first girl ended up with the boy who'd become an Ankylosaur.
* Occurs between spouses [[Expy|Nick and Nora Charles]] in the Sharon Lee and Steve Miller short story "A Night at the Opera".
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* A somewhat disturbing example of this occurs in [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''[[Haunted (Palahniuk novel)|Haunted]]'': Mother Nature asks her self-appointed love interest to help zip her up... because she doesn't have enough fingers to do it herself. She and her companions have been [[Fingore|cutting off parts of their fingers]] to [[It Makes Sense in Context|garner sympathy from others.]]
== Live
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' the most frequent person Lucille asks to zip her up is her ''sons''. Their reactions are characteristic of their personalities.
** In one episode, "Motherboy XXX," this bit of dialog occurs while Buster is trying to make a dramatic escape:
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