Humm - I actually have a couple of these - I agree, they are very useful to remove the lining from the zipper, but I’m not sure how they would actually help get the zipper closed, which is the big issue.
As for the suit - I love it too! That’s the only reason I wear the damn thing despite my zipper woes.
I just want to chime in to say I’m glad you’re secure enough to know you’re cute, and not have to prove it to a bunch of overweight guys on the internet…
(and to say “cunting zippers!”, of course) (I gave up on one and got it replaced with a big metal one, by a local seamstress)
There are tears running down my cheeks. Fuck me that’s funny. Thank you.
No, but I’d say women are SUPPOSED to have a “seam” Down There. And that it’s cute. But I’ll never understand fashion that desexualizes the wearer.
I never imagined Alice in Wonderland speaking this way.
He’s also a cobbler, because I have a gorgeous pair of brown knee high leather boots, that have a little leather flap under the zip to stop your skin getting caught in the teeth of the zip. Want to guess what gets stuck instead and locks the zip tight every second time I put the boots on? The nice protective flap is now shredded in several places from being yanked free, and the zip is on the verge of losing teeth.
Boot designer, just trust us not to mutilate ourselves please, it’ll make your product last better in the long run!
Curiouser and curiouser.
I think, based on this statement, that you don’t know what a hidden zipper is - they’re found almost exclusively in women’s clothing. It doesn’t eliminate the seam - just makes it lay flat.
Like this:
http://cache1.bigcartel.com/product_images/26047197/blackandgoldlacedress.jpg
I’m not sure ‘desexualized’ is how I would describe the gal pictured…
Gentlemen, (and I use the term loosely) please.
I will never complain about wearing scrubs to work again*. There’s something to be said for the professional attire of one’s career being pajamas.
*Note: this is not literally true. I hate scrubs with the power of a blinding bilirubin light. But at least they have no zippers.
I assume that’s the sort of clients he’s referring to, yes.
While I’m seldom accused of being a gentleman, alice_in_wonderland surely ignored my post for good reason. This poor attempt at humor may now be allowed to die a natural death. 
You mean TV has misled me again and that those subtly tailored to be cute scrubs on Scrubs weren’t exactly accurate?
And then at the top of the nicely hidden zipper is a little “hidden closure” device consisting of a tiny hook and loop. When fastened, the waist of your skirt looks perfectly flat and all evidence of fastening is perfectly invisible.
However, the little hook isn’t made of very sturdy metal wire. A little tension and pull on it, and it slowly opens up. The resulting open hook prongs right into the flesh of your side or back just like the one on my skirt is doing today. It’s fitting neatly between a couple of vertebrae on my back and I can’t lean back in my office chair because of it.
Fucking skirt fastener!
You know, those things are really the shits too. And it’s not like you have to eat your own body weight in HoHos for it to happen, either. A TINY amount of pressure will either bend the thing, or make one half of it come unstitched (my usual problem) so you have a teeny-tiny little metal look hanging off your skirt or pant.
You know, despite the comfort factor, I think I would hate wearing scrubs. They just looks so…sloppy. Yes, I know that being a nurse is a sloppy job, and scrubs are appropriate. I just wouldn’t enjoy it one bit.
I actually laughed. I just didn’t know, short of posting rates, what would be an appropriate response. 
Ugh, seriously! I hate those things. I generally don’t use them unless I really need to because either the gap is too big or because I’m doing something up by myself that I really need assistance with and the hook helps.
And then if you have the big ones like that in the front of a jacket (White House Black Market I am looking at you) the dry cleaner ruins them and you have to try to bend htem back into place but you fail.
The Dry Cleaner doesn’t buy you a new jacket?
I love it when clothing doesn’t have the hook and eye and it obviously needs it. I bought a sundress with a zipper up the side and without the hook and eye the zipper likes to slowly inch open and make me indecent. At least it’s an easy thing to remedy.
You could turn them around, it can make it more awkward to put on but skirts of that type I tend to put on then turn it around and settle properly rather than twist myself up.
The last dress I bought had a zipper that I found but was 2 maybe even 3 times as long as I thought it was and I didn’t discover the difference until the third time I put it on. It didn’t really need that long of a zipper.
Ha, no, although I have yet to go back and pitch a fit about my busted ass Space Admiral jacket. When I do I suppose they will “fix it”.
Those hook and eye closures also get snagged in the laundry and are impossible to repair without breaking down the entire skirt and rebuilding it. When I’m building an outfit, I stay away from hidden zippers as much as possible. They’re such a pain, both requiring a special foot for the sewing machine, and probably causing issues for the wearer. I’m usually building costumes though, so a rapid change is my default assumption, and the closest viewers will usually be fifteen or twenty feet away. This eliminates the major advantage of a hidden zipper and emphasizes the downside.
Hidden zippers make clothes look good. They’re terrible for function, but the form is excellent. Stronger than buttons, with a nicer join. A well-executed hidden zipper is a thing of beauty, and if done right shouldn’t overlap with the interfacing enough to disrupt operation.
Enjoy,
Steven