Pop Goes the Zipper!

Perils of couture

Some of us clever costumers may think, “I’ll just buy a real vintage dress and replace the zipper.”

Someone actually drew some black over the zipper in the back of this $1,200 dress. If you have the $1,200 you probably have the extra $100 to replace the zipper in the back. So, no worries, put away your black sharpie.

I chose dresses with ruching for these essays because they really bulk up a seam. They add awesome dimension and create the problem that vintage dealer tried to hide with a digital sharpie…

So, just take the zipper out and put in an invisible one.

Theater wisdom tells us not to do that. But I needed to learn it for reals to really commit the ‘no invisible zippers!’ (said like, ‘no wire hangers!’) edict to memory.

How do you think the back of this dress I made closed? Invisible zipper, of course! These two were supposed to look like they were attending the Oscars - no homemade lapped zippers for her.