As I had mentioned before, the zipper on this dress needed to be replaced. I am old enough to have worn lots of dresses with old metal zippers in my dresses in my childhood. Those metal zippers were persnickety. They tended to pinch skin . Often on really old zippers the tape can wear out and the slightest pull can have the teeth falling out like those of an old rummy. When my friend and I attempted to put the dress on the dummy, the zipper rebelled spitting teeth all over my living room. I needed to replace the zipper. One of my sisters took sewing sewing classes at the local Singer sewing machine store. The women who taught there used to teach their students that there was only one correct way to do a sewing task. There was only one way to install a zipper. That, is a big fat lie. If you are the sort of sewing geek that actually examines and tries to reverse engineer how the zippers on your clothes are installed you will see that there area many ways to ins...
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