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I read or heard somewhere the major clothing brands consider YKK zippers so reliable they won't even look at competitors product, even at substantial discounts,
by jackfoxy 8y ago
I read or heard somewhere the major clothing brands consider YKK zippers so reliable they won't even look at competitors product, even at substantial discounts, the zipper being such a small portion of the total cost of goods, but a critical point of failure that could easily ruin their brand.
- HiroshiSan 8y agoThis is normally how I tell the quality of an article of clothing. Though sometimes it's not the zipper that fails but what it's stitched on.
- rootusrootus 8y agoThat may have been true 10 or 20 years ago, but YKK is not the biggest zipper supplier any more. That honor goes to SBS, a Chinese company.
- 8bitsrule 8y agoCitation needed.
- perl4ever 8y agoThat's interesting, because I have a jacket that was cheap and is generally durable but the zipper has jammed and derailed sometimes, so I went to look at it, and guess what - it's stamped with CMZ, and indeed, that is a zipper manufacturer that is not YKK.