Can you still use a back zip?

Apparently there is some sort of pull gadget that you can buy…….personally, I insert dress zips in the side seam or if it is jersey fabric it doesn’t get a zip at all and I’m not keen on close fitting dresses anyway.

Years since I had a zip-up dress and they were usually side zips!

I usually try things on anyway to make sure I can get in and out of them!

I am fairly flexible and have several dresses with back zips.

If you have a problem a wire coat hanger can be used to pull up the zip.

No idea, I cannot remember when I last had a dress with any kind of back fastening.

Only today I tried on a dress with a full length back zip. It had been in the wardrobe for a few years until I lost weight. No chance of my being supple enough to get the long zip up. The dress will go to the charity shop tomorrow!

No, I have Ménière’s syndrome and for some reason that movement will set off a bout of vertigo, usually short lived but I don’t do anything these days that can set it off.

I second the bent wire coat hanger suggestion

I have seen lots of hooky things on a ribbon online to help do up a dress - but I want to know how you hook the hooky bit in again in order to pull the zip back down?

Maybe the assumption is someone will help you out of it?