If you are wearing pants with a zipper in them, chances are the zipper has the letters YKK on them. But why?
This is just one of those odd type questions that I occasionally come up with. I happened to notice in a single day that three different pairs of pants by different manufacturers all had zippers with YKK on them so went looking for the reason.
That reason is that most zippers are now made by a company called YKK Co. Prior to being renamed to YKK Co it was called Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha and was established in 1934.
I agree, useless trivia. But who knows, it might be a good ice breaker some time for you.
joe
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I always wondered where this came from.
Thanks for the trivia!