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Evaluating touch and close fasteners

How these commonly used footwear components can be tested for their fitness for purpose.

Touch and close fasteners (sometimes called ‘hook and loop’) are very popular, particularly for children’s footwear. For obvious reasons, it is vitally important that the two parts of the fastener – the tape holding the hooks and the tape with the loops – do not separate during wear.



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