Drabble #5

12/10/2006

I much prefer buttons. I know I didn’t really have a choice, but I like buttons, and I’m glad I’m a button dress. Zippers are fun and sexy and make that great noise, but they’re risky. I’ve never yet seen a dress with a broken zipper get fixed. You lose a button, it’s pretty easy to find another one. Ten minutes later you’re out the door. You can even use a safety pin. But a zipper ... the zipper breaks, and you might as well resign yourself to being crumpled and forgotten in the bottom of the mending basket forever.

Posted on 12/10/2006 at 07:24 AM | Permalink

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The dress has a point - buttons are usually easily replaceable, except when it is an unusual button, and then you have to find 19 matching buttons (for this dress, anyway!)

Posted by: Susan | 12/10/2006 at 07:36 AM

This is the first dress I've seen on your site that I could picture myself wearing, right now at the weight I am. Great choice :-).

Posted by: Dani in NC | 12/10/2006 at 12:37 PM

And is it just a policy now that plastic zippers must die after a couple of wearings? Sheesh, thank heaven for my alterations shop, no way am I going to tangle with putting a new zipper in when he will do it for like 8 bucks. Including the zipper!

Posted by: Thoughts on Life and Millinery. | 12/16/2006 at 06:09 PM

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