why don't they put zippers on shirts?

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They have them on jumpers, cardigans, trousers, hand bags, purses, some shoes, skirts, dresses....

so why not shirts?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

But they do! And then the shirts become fugly!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I have several shirts with zippers on. I like them!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Dan OTM. The answer to this question is "because anyone wearing a shirt with a zipper looks like a mongoloid."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. Maybe girls can get away with it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

chest hair, yo.

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I have nice black short-sleeved Paul Smith shirt with a zip. I like it a lot (and look TEH HOTTNESS in it).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

otm, boring...

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

they only look good if the zipper is done all the way up and you look like that dude from Bazooka Joe.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I want a shirt that looks exactly like the top of a wetsuit.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

why?!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

from a girls point of view it would be better cause the shirts fit perfectly everywhere apart from teh boobies, so a zipper would get rid of that weird button gap, as getting the next size up would mean that the shirt no longer fits properly everywhere and the shop assistants mock you and call you fatty faterson while launching coat hangers at your back - and girls will shun you in the changing room...

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

paunchy are you buff? is that why you want a shirt like a wet suit?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

What kind of things did bully girls yell at the less athletic girls in the locker room back in high school, anyway?

― The Ghost of Pssst.... Girl... (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

are you buff? is that why you want a shirt like a wet suit?

psst... I don't actually want a shirt that looks like a wetsuit.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

all shop assistants eye you up and down - the higher priced the shop the more scrutinous and rude the shop employees are- so much so that sometimes you just walk in and they go "we dont stock your size ma'am no point in even looking" (they did this to my friend emma at) - for goodness sake your a shop "assistant" not owner or designer.

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

The correct response to that kind of behavior is to haphazardly rearrange all of the clothes on the racks closest to the door.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

no way the correct response is to shop somewhere else and blast some roy orbison and then go in and go 'yall work on commission right? BIG MISTAKE' and get some black guy to walk in and go 'HOLLYWOOD' and maybe get george costanza to try to rape you and then get tbs to show it ten times in one weekend. foolproof.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

The correct response can NEVER involve attempting to get George Costanza to rape you!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I used to wear shirts with zippers (not across the entire shirt) on them in the 70s.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

i love doing that picking up items and snootily scrutinising them, (out of their beautifully folded piles) and them putting them somewhere else in the shop, or doing it to the whole pile, especially in the more expensive shops of whom only stock two/three colors at a time, all in very small neat piles with barely a thing in the shop.
xpost

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

just a little side zip on them? x-post

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

No, casual shirts with just a zipper at the top, so you can more easily get the shirt over your head.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

yeah i've seen thos kind before i was thinking more like work shirts.

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

or would that just look weird?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I have a shirt with zips on the pockets. It has press-studs to actually do it up though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

bizarrre. why did they stop at the pockets??

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking sexyDancer is OTM. Chest hair would be problematic.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

definately

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

It has press-studs to actually do it up though.

Are "press studs" the same as "snaps"? I've never heard of "press-studs." If so, it makes sense to use the word "snap," rather than "press-stud," since "snap" is onomatopoeic, like "zip." Too bad buttons don't make sounds, or we could rename them.

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

haha a zen koan: what is the sound that a button makes?

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

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