30th January 2023

Found in Trove

A giddy description of the delights of haberdashery, especially the new “zipp fastener”.

The Australasian (Melbourne), 6th July 1929 page 17. 

The first such fasteners sold in Australia around 1916, but they were still a relatively novel thing in 1929, as this article shows. See also http://www.austbuttonhistory.com/23rd-may-2022/

Table Talk (Melbourne), 2nd September 1937 page 32.

The Age (Melbourne), 10th June 1939 page 20.

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