Poetry Challenge #137- XYZipppppper!

Two Part Question: 1. Did you wear a coat or pants today? 2. How did you clasp the front closed?

If your answer to the second part was I zipped up! Then put on your party hat and lets here it for Elias Howe!* Its National Zipper Day!

Elias Howes first zipper wasnt called a zipper. When Howe filed his patent in 1851, it was for an Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure. But Howe never tried to market or sell his invention, so it wasnt until 42 year later when Whitcomb Judson patented a...