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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Project Runway]]'' Season 3's finale, Jeffrey's best outfit - a green and white dress - had a lot of decorative zippers. {{spoiler|He won}}.
* Cameron from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' [http://www.poptower.com/images/db/4422/450/500/terminator-sarah-connor-chronicles.jpg likes]{{Dead link}} her zippers and her [[Too Many Belts|belts]] - not to mention [[Hell-Bent for Leather|leather]].
* Lampshaded on ''[[Peep Show]]'' when Mark goes clothes shopping and starts ranting about pocketless zips and [[Symbology Research Failure|gratuitous symbolism]].
{{quote|''So that's the way it is, is it? Let's just put a zip here, a swastika there. Who knows what these things once stood for? Who even cares?''}}
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** Not only goth stores anymore as of 2009 or so, it seems to be a fad that's catching on even in higher-end, more fashion-forward stores as well as places like Forever 21.
* In a more universal way, zippers were originally invented as a shoe fastener, to replace ''20+ tiny buttons'' as fasteners for non casual shoes (and thus ineligible by current fashion for laces). You'd better believe that zippers are better than tens of buttons when you need to get dressed in a hurry.
** Then there are shoes like [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011004026/http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons3/632/6322040/47_2009/4e/balmain_zipper_heels.jpg this].
* [http://www.infmetry.com/coolstuff/zip-itself-tetrahedral-coin-purse/ These purses], which are basically each just one long zipper.
* Many motorbike jackets and pants have a lot of zippers that, when open, provide ventilation. It's very useful on a hot day, but can look ridiculous.
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