| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - This now-ubiquitous device that fastens and unfastens our pants, dresses, and bags, is a relatively recent invention, as far as the history of fashion goes, and also had more trouble taking off than you might imagine.Elias Howe (inventor of the sewing machine) patented an automatic, continuous clothing closure in 1851, and Whitcomb Judson and Lewis Walker marketed the Clasp Locker in 1893, whi
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