One of the items purchased by Di today was manchester - a quilt cover with matching pillowslips. The designer of these items turns out to be a SPOTD due to their lack of functionality as a result of artistic merit. Whilst most doona covers have buckles or clips or zippers at the end of the quilt cover so they don’t get in the road, the designer of this set decided to incorporate the function as part of the design. About two-thirds of the way down the quilt cover, there’s a zipper running across the top which has material either side obviously as part of a larger design to show off the zipper. That’s fine. Sure, it’s a bit weird to have the zipper so prominent but hey, it’s just a design.

The problem is with the pillowslips because they have the same design. With the zipper not on the end of the pillowslip out of the way but two-thirds of the way across the top of the pillow… Yes, you have to press your face against a zipper if you want to use the pillowslips. What moron looked at that and thought “yep, people love to be asleep in the middle of the night and suddenly get their faces carved up by the teeth of a zipper”? It’s a very poorly conceived design indeed.

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