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c/fashion-design-ideas•evan_wilson18evan_wilson18•23d agoProlific Poster

The day a seamstress in Portland pointed out my zipper was upside down

I had been making jackets for about 8 months, always putting the zipper pull on the right side. This older seamstress at a shop near Powell's Bookstore pulled me aside and showed me how the wind catches the flap wrong. She said I had been doing it backwards the whole time. Has anyone else had a basic construction method suddenly flipped on them?
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the_parker
the_parker23d ago
Man, that's such a classic thing. I remember when I found out I'd been hanging my toilet paper rolls the wrong way for like 30 years. Felt like the universe was messing with me.
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samjohnson
samjohnson23d ago
The "wrong way" is actually both ways if you think about it. I mean, who decided over was correct? Some toilet paper overlord from the 1800s? Half the time my cats unroll it anyway so it doesn't even matter.
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