What goes up, must come down

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No-one can prevent the mortifying toilet roll wrapped around heels saga or the skirts tucked into Bridget Jones pants incident, but fear not, putting a stop once and for all to those humiliating moments you realize you’ve been walking around all day with a gaping hole at your hoo-ha is ZipHolder. This nifty little creation is more simple than slicing bread, you merely slip the double-looped band through the pull tag on your zipper, suck that spare tyre in, zip up, and slide one loop around your button. Practically invisible to the naked eye and unnoticeable to even the most intense Peter Pervert crotch stare. Let’s rid the world of open flies.

Put that around your neck and zip it

Price: £35   BUY!

Fancy yourself as the next Mr. T or just putting yourself up for knocking out the annoying gangster wannabe that is Lady Sovereign then why not do so decorated with this great piece from MAFIA. Our initial thoughts here in the SUPERSWEET office were “Oh. My. God”. This necklace is the coolest, maddest, baddest blinger around! Bronze chains dangling golden zip charms and a triple chain with varying thicknesses for added oomph. My love don’t cost a thing, but if you buy me this I will love you forever.

Disaya Bracelet

Zip it hard

Price: £146   BUY!

It’s all about bangles this summer so stop complaing about rusty barbeques, hayfever symptoms and swine flu and drape yourself in Central Saint Martins-trained Disaya Prakobsantisukh’s generous offerings. Enough to put a smile on your face even when you are stuck in the office on the hottest and only dry day of the year.

You zip me right round baby, right round

Price: £85-125   BUY!

With its cross-woven nylon exterior and snug fleece interior, the Lojo can be taken with you on the go-go. By the pool, on the patio, along with thermals and a flask at the beach – British weather has a lot to answer for – or take along to that rainy day picnic in the park – no more sitting on the ground covered in ants with twigs sticking into your butt.

The fact the credit crunch has forced you into a self contained flat where you can cook your dinner, have a shower and answer the door without moving is not a worry anymore as the ball can double up as a stool, a footrest and a chair with minimum space required and an attractive contemporary design. So sit in it, on it, roll around with it, throw it at the pesky neighbours cat, or have a good old game of catch, whatever you choose to do there’s hours of fun to be had with the LoJo lounge chair.  

Zip it off like a band aid

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All you need is a telephone box; a waiting with baited breath crowd and the Zipper dress by designer and zip extraordinaire Sebastian Errazuriz. In you go in a knee length, strapless number and out you pop only seconds later in a T-shirt and belt combo to tumultuous applause. Clark Kent has got nothing on you.

Made up of 120 separate zips that can be added, removed or partially undone you can be the Cinderella of the ball in a full-length evening gown, or a Back-alley Sally in a belly baring halter and a shorter than short mini skirt with just a few zips. 

Their here, their there, there’s zips everywhere

Price: £406   BUY!

A decade most wish to forget, the best thing to come out of the eighties may have been bad clothes, cheesy music and our sappy love affair with Zac Morris and Kelly Kapowski, Minus a kaleidoscope of psychedelia with hallucigenic consequences we have these Sergio Rossi multi-strap sandals. Harking back to the ‘I shop, therefore I am’ decade these status heels with a snazzy little zip detail up the back of the heel wouldn’t go amiss in an episode of Dallas. Team with some acid bright harem pants and a blazer stuffed with shoulder pads big enough to rival Joan Collins beasts and you’ll be on your way for some truly awesome tributes.

Zips…the final frontier

Price: £20  BUY!

These are the voyages of the…too far? Ok well, what with all the Star Trek hysteria, Spock ears popping up here, there and everywhere and the new James Tiberius Kirk looking hotter than Mars’ molten lava, the SUPERSWEET team couldn't help but get carried away with these zip at the ankle leggings and a few little puns along the way. Red planets in a silky black universe, we’re so spaced out.

A zip worth saving

Price: £121.90   BUY!

Your quilted Chanel bag, your first tooth and the Paris Hilton sex tape. Some things are worth protecting in a box, where no light, any of the elements and human contact can disturb them. Take this Luc Kieffer bangle, so Zippity do-dah over this gold-plated fastener, the designer decided to set it in resin and decorate it with Swarovski crystals. Our kind of guy.

If I could turn back time

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Many have tried and many have failed, the only true winners in the time traveling machine troop have been Dr. Who and the awesome dudes Bill and Ted. Cher has sung about it and countless minds have dreamed about it but what if we could turn back time, a time before flakes in ice creams and peace, love and no bathing to a time before zippers. We could introduce those despairing at fiddly buttons and Velcro securings and we could save their miserable souls with one of the worlds best inventions. Dare to dream, dare to dream.

Zip loads of fun

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Calling all Blue Peter fans. You always wanted that badge, you even pinched your best friends hard-earned pin from pride of place on her dressing table at the age of nine, only to have to return it when she told you she knew you had swiped it. Threats of police knocking at your door, being grounded for life and losing your BFF is enough to traumatize even the most determined treasure seeker. Frodo Baggins would have promptly returned his ‘precious’ if threatened with such consequences.

So you never perfected your Eiffel Tower made out of matchsticks attempt or your town made out of toothpaste lids, however you cannot fail with a comb, a zip and a bit of felt.