A closure system for an article has a zipper, a slider, as well as a zipper pull tab, in which, in the closed position of the zipper, the zipper pull tab is passed, at least in part, through a closure piece configured or disposed on the article. The slider is held positioned on the article in this closed position. Furthermore, at least in the closed position of the zipper, at least one plate is disposed in the region of the closure piece.

A towel for being worn around a user's body includes a flexible planar member with at least one corner. A grommet is coupled to and extends through the flexible planar member. The grommet defines a hole in the grommet and comprises a plurality of flaps which are radially arranged with respect to each other and extend inwardly into the hole. The grommet is positioned distally from a selected corner of the at least one corner of the flexible planar member, and the selected corner is insertable through the hole of the grommet. Each flap comprises a resiliently bendable material such that the flaps bend to accommodate the selected corner. Having bent to accommodate the selected corner, the flaps are biased to constrict the selected corner when the selected corner is inserted through the hole to secure the selected corner in the hole.

The hook and loop rope facilitates tying objects down without requiring a user to tie a knot in the rope. Instead, the user need only loop the rope through a tiedown (or structural equivalent) prior to engaging hooks of a first portion of the rope with loops of a second portion of the rope. In the rolled configuration, a plurality of hooks associated with a hook side of the rope engage with a plurality of loops associated with a loop side of the rope, thereby retaining the rope in the rolled configuration. The plurality of hooks are displaced from the plurality of loops to move the rope into an unrolled configuration. Then, in the tie-down configuration, a first portion of the rope overlaps a second portion, thereby preventing or otherwise inhibiting movement of the first portion relative to the second.