A closure for an elongated skin wound having a pair of edges has a pair of parallel tapes each formed by a U-shaped one-piece textile outer strip having a longitudinally extending outside flap and, parallel thereto, an inside flap joined at a longitudinal fold, and a filler strip extending longitudinally between and spacing the flaps apart. Each tape has an inner edge turned toward the other tape and carrying one of a pair of longitudinal rows of interleavable teeth on the outside flaps. Stitches or the like engaged through the flaps and filler strip of each tape hold them together. A skin-compatible adhesive adhered to inside faces of the inside flaps allows the inside flaps to be adhered to skin to each side of the wound. A slider displaceable longitudinally along the rows of teeth can interleave and couple them together so that, when the tapes are adhered to skin to each side of the wound, coupling the rows of teeth with the slider pulls the edges of the wound together.
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