quick poll: do you button your SB?

"The brute covers himself, the rich man and the fop adorn themselves, the elegant man dresses!"

-Honore de Balzac

pchong
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:39 am

I always do, even when seated. I feel sloppy if I don't have it buttoned. What do you gentlemen do?
iammatt
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:43 am

Mine are not cut to be buttonned while seated. I suppose that I could, but I would probably pop a button.

I generally keep mine buttoned while standing, but not always.
Jannis
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:03 am

I also keep mine always buttoned while standing but not when seating although the cut does allow that.
Costi
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:12 am

Never when seated. I have a general reflex of unbuttoning the coat as I sit, respectively button it as I stand up). Always when wearing a bowtie (I wonder why). Always when in a public place (restaurant etc.) or outside. Rarely when in a familiar indoor place with known people (office, home, visit to friends). Always in front of strangers (I could be directly psychanalized from this behaviour: buttoning the coat may be interpreted as a refined version of the primeval reflex to protect the soft ventral area fom "attack", or what we feel might invade our private space).
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:59 am

being italian my coats are constantly buttoned and unbuttoned, buttoned and unbuttoned. Even DB (I Know many wouldn't like).

But strange to say, when I'm seated they are almost always buttoned.
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:07 am

Quite rarely when seated and often removing the coat altogether...
aportnoy
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:39 am

Never when seated.
DFR
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:19 pm

Rarely - indeed only when outside and there is a gale blowing.

Fastening the coat may give the wearer feelings of elegance, it actually conveys to anyone else that he is 'closed' to contact and thinks himself aloof from those he is with.
BenedictSpinola
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:42 pm

Costi wrote: (I could be directly psychanalized from this behaviour: buttoning the coat may be interpreted as a refined version of the primeval reflex to protect the soft ventral area fom "attack", or what we feel might invade our private space).
What then, does this say about the Neapolitan penchant for open front quarters? :wink:
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:41 pm

Dear Benmund Freudola

That is quite enough outta you!

I mean think about high button points and open quarters. Most ladies of any upbringing would simply faint, Scarlet.

Cheers
Jackson
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:21 pm

Always when standing, rarely when seated.
luk-cha

Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:06 am

standing yes - seated no! :D
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Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:51 am

Buttonned when standing, generally not when seated.
Costi
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Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:50 pm

BenedictSpinola wrote: What then, does this say about the Neapolitan penchant for open front quarters? :wink:
Yours is a rhetorical question :wink: Beyond the aesthetics involved in such a sartorial choice, no doubt the Neapolitans do show a particular propensity towards social contact and interchange (including anything Mr. Alden may have humorously hinted to). I think buttoning the coat (except when one is simply cold) does set a psychological barrier: DFR's interpretation shows the reclusive aspect, while the other is a defensive attitude.
There is also, of course, the purely functional argument of buttoning so the coat doesn't gap when we move our arms (as we stand still, a well-cut SB coat should hang the same buttoned or not), which has no psychological implications (has it...? :) ).
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Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:31 pm

Sometimes I do it...
But regularly I don't do it, and when I wear a navy jacket and a grey trousers I always don't do it.
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