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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''}}

There. You look...[[UST|very fine]]. You need help with that [[Memento MacGuffin|necklace]], too? Okay. Whew. Oh look, [[Moment Killer|there's our ride]]. We'd better be off. We wouldn't want to run into that [[Classy Cat Burglar]] that's been about.

May work for males in the case of a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] (and either a male or female admirer).

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[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]].

* Quon in ''[[Rah Xephon]]'', as pictured above. She had just come out of a medical checkup and already had on a dress, but needed another person to secure her medical vest. Not that this was apparent to Ayato. Odd, considering said clasps are on the ''front'' of her vest, yet she needs someone else to help her, and the clasps must be fastened from behind.

* In ''[[Mad Men]]'', Joan Holloway always asks her lovers to zip her up when she's getting dressed.

** In the same show, Betty Draper sometimes has her daughter Sally zip up her fancier dresses. This might count as a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]], as whether or not Don is there at the time, it serves as reminder of their quietly-troubled marriage (and Betty's continuous living on the verge of a nervous breakdown).

* Done in reverse in an episode of ''[[Eureka]]'' where the magi-tech dress that Allison is wearing has short circuited and she can't get it off without having Carter unzip her.

* In ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel Air]]'', a character named Jewel uses this as a seduction technique on Will. Made worse by the fact that 1) she's his best friend Jazz's fiancée, and 2) the dress he's helping her with is her ''wedding'' dress.

* Used to [[Ship Tease]] [[Cool Big Sis|Catherine]] and [[Team Dad|Grissom]]: at a fancy dinner, Grissom has trouble with a bowtie, so Catherine steps in to help with a dry "you need a woman" comment.

* Attempted on [[One Life to Live]]. Tina attempts to seduce her husband Cord (he's furious, having discovered that she's been having an affair), by asking him to zip up her dress. He sees right through her act and snaps at her to do it herself.

** Also employed in a [[Ship Tease]] moment - Jack follows Liz into her apartment after attending a fancy birthday party together. He leans into her and she believes a kiss is coming - but he's only reaching behind her neck to remove the necklace he loaned her for the night.