Can't get your backpack open, or loosen the fastening on your leather jacket? Surprising solutions in your office, bath cabinet, and workbench will get your zipper to yield.

A jammed or sticky zipper is one of the more familiar types of zipper problems. It always seems to happen when you're in a hurry, and while yanking at the zipper pull or going for a pair of pliers ...

If you have a zipper that sticks, you don’t have to put up with it or throw the garment out! Here’s how to easily fix and unzip a stuck zipper.

How to Fix a Broken Zipper If you're not able to fix the problem with the above tips, it is likely broken, and part or all of the zipper may need to be replaced.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Being trapped on the other side of a stuck zipper can incite panic attacks. The more you realize you can't get out of the jacket, a boot or tent you're stuck in, the more ...

We've all been there: you're in the backcountry when you yank the zipper on your jacket, and bam. Here's how to fix a zipper.

The zipper doesn’t move smoothly or jams Zippers that are sluggish when pulled or get stuck mid-way on the track are usually an easy fix. Take a cotton swab and dip it in lotion or vaseline.

You know that feeling of panic when you pull your expensive, warm winter jacket out of the closet, put it on, pull the zipper up, and it stops halfway up?

Before you head to a tailor to get that stuck zipper fixed, you may want to consider a repair kit. (File photo/The Oregonian) ...

Zippers are great little things...until they get stuck. And that almost always happens when you’re either getting ready for an important occasion or event, running late, or both. But instead of ...