It took 80 years to catch on, and it wasn’t even invented for pants. From an 1851 patent nobody bothered to sell, to a jamming boot fastener at the 1893 World’s Fair, the engineer who finally got the design right, a tire company that named it after the sound it made, and the surrealist designer who turned it into fashion — this is the surprising history of the object running down your jacket.
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