PRACTICAL FASHION

AND NOW . . . THERE'S A "RECESSION-PROOF DRESS", WITH 120 ZIPPERS TO CREATE 100 DIFFERENT OUTFITS:

Times are tough right now. We all know it. But ladies . . . just because you can't afford to buy new clothes, that doesn't mean you can't have a bunch of new outfits. I'll explain . . .

A 31-year-old designer named Sebastian Errazuriz has created a dress . . . called The Zipper . . . which has 120 separate zippers that can be zipped, unzipped or partially zipped in order to create more than 100 different outfits.

Sebastian says the dress was, quote, "influenced by the constant changes and demands that fashion establishes every season. The idea was to create a single dress that could easily be reconstructed over and over again to comply with hundreds of variations . . . "I believe the concept is particularly poignant in the current economic crisis because you can buy one dress and get a hundred different fashion possibilities."

The Zipper dress isn't in stores yet, but Sebastian is in talks with developers to put the dress into mass production . . . so he can sell it on the cheap. (Daily Telegraph)

(--Check out some pictures of a model sporting The Zipper dress in various combinations. . .)