I hate zippers but when I have to use them I'll look for YKK as I've had the least trouble with that brand. Zippers are my nemesis, of all inanimate objects th

I hate zippers but when I have to use them I'll look for YKK as I've had the least trouble with that brand. Zippers are my nemesis, of all inanimate objects that I come across in my life they consistently cause me the most trouble. It doesn't matter if they're on my sleeping bags, jackets or the fly on my pants, they jam, the teeth pull out, the limit/stop staples at the ends fall out rendering the zipper useless. Fabric gets clogged in the zipping mechanism and it's often impossible to extract it without it tearing—sleeping bags are a disaster in this regard with their super long zippers. The more expensive a jacket is the more likely the zipper will fail, then there's the problem of aligning jacket zippers, the two parts never properly engage or they jam. And on two-part zippers where there's effectively two zippers in one, aligning the bits can be a major undertaking. They never align when one's in a hurry. As a male, I've had pants fly zippers draw blood—a painful experience to say the least. Also it's highly embarrassing when one's fly zip breaks and one comes apart at the seams, also fly zippers have habit of just undoing themselves and often one isn't aware of the fact until someone embarrassingly points to one's unzipped state. Then there's the problem of replacing or fixing zippers. Often, I've had to sew cotton at the end of a zipper when the end staple falls out, and after the repair meshing the teeth together again where the staple used to be is a pain—I think I've fixed it only for the zip to completely fall apart after zipping up. And it's nigh on impossible to replace a lost tooth midway down a zipper (it quickly falls out again and the zipper unfurls in an instant). Replacing a pants fly zipper is a major undertaking and it's best they're sent out for repair—on the other hand even I can sew back a button in moments, it's a trivial exercise. Moreover, if one loses a single fly button it's much less embarrassing than the gaping gap left by a failed zipper. The only thing I hate on clothes more than zippers is Velcro, those who inflict us with that awful product ought to be put in the stocks for days on end. Velcro is damn useless after several washes, it collects lint and or otherwise stops sticking. Give me reliable buttons any day.