Whitcomb L. Judson He ultimately never saw much success in the "clasp-locker" as a fashion item during his lifetime. Judson made a "C-curity" clasp-locker fastener in 1905 which was an improved version of his previous patents. It tended to break open unexpectedly like the predecessors. Clothing manufacturers showed little interest in Judson's fastener perhaps because of this reason. An improved version of 1896 came with Judson made his invention to save people the trouble of buttoning and unbuttoning their shoes every day as shows in his wording in the patent application. He describes this in his patent U.S.P. 557,207 In 1913 the zipper
For sale: baby shoes, never worn a periodical called "The Editor" where he outlined the basic idea of a grief-stricken woman who had lost her baby and even suggested the title of "Little Shoes, Never Worn". In his version of the story, the shoes are being given away rather than sold. He suggests that this would provide some measure of solace for the seller, as it would mean that another baby would at least benefit directly. By 1921, the story was already being parodied: the July issue of "Judge" that year published a version that used a baby carriage instead of shoes; there, however, the narrator