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Poll: Button or snaps on your suspenders?

Buttons or snaps on your suspenders?

  • Buttons

    Votes: 2 100.0%
  • Snaps

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    2

Mysterious Mose

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Tomasso said:
Are you referring to employing a shank when attaching a button?

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Yes! Shanks! Thanks!
Now could you tell me what you call this buttoning arrangement?:
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avedwards

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If I wore braces I'd wear them with buttons. As it is, my build allows me to achieve the same effect with braces, belts or waist adjusters. I think either is acceptable if done with trousers designed to be worn that way (belt with belt loops and braces with brace buttons).

However, I recently saw a clothing store selling braces which were convertable - they had both snaps and the leather loops used for buttons. I personally think the indecisiveness that conveys makes it score even lower than snaps.
 

Mysterious Mose

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mothfighter said:
Hi Mose,

Guess this is the Dutch version of the BB.
My contribution to the Mose-eum!
(I'll Take It with me the next time we meet; in case you don't
have it in the collection already, which I doubt!!)

Great Suit BTW (The German one?)

Cheers, Kaar

Cool!!! Is that the Old Town cords?
 

Lokar

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avedwards said:
However, I recently saw a clothing store selling braces which were convertable - they had both snaps and the leather loops used for buttons. I personally think the indecisiveness that conveys makes it score even lower than snaps.

My first pair of button braces were those. I couldn't find any button braces anywhere in Sweden, so I got a cheap pair of M&S button&clip braces shipped over. First thing I did was to throw away the clips, though.
 

RobStC

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Buttons!!!

Chances are, if a pair of trousers don't have the necessary buttons (leaving aside accidentally missing ones), then they will most likely have belt loops. Unless in an extreme emergency, it is simply unforgivable:rage: to wear braces on trousers that were designed to be supported by a belt and fitted with belt loops. It is just wrong and UGLY.....:rage: Plus the trousers will not be suitably cut.

This effectively rules out the use of clip on braces in most situations.

If a pair of trousers has neither belt loops nor buttons for attaching the braces, then they will either have proper waist adjusters or be so perfectly fitting (ie bespoke) that they will not require any form of external help. If you have a pair of trousers that are so nicely cut, then the last thing you want to do is attach nasty, shiny clips to them :eusa_doh: .....

Do I make my point sufficiently clear?

Long live buttons! Down with clip on braces!!
 

Torpedo

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Buttons. If the trousers do not come with them, I will install them. I will not remove the belt loops.
I have one pair of clip suspenders, which I use only if I have to use trousers which have not yet their suspender buttons sewn; and only if worn with a waistcoat, so efectively hiding the clips.
 

Tomasso

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Mysterious Mose said:
Now could you tell me what you call this buttoning arrangement?:
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They are termed links, as in: "I prefer that my morning coat have a link closure rather than a button closure."



BTW, suspender/brace buttons aren't generally attached using a shank. Actually, they're the only buttons on a suit that don't require a shank, due to their convex back.
 

wintergreen

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I voted for buttons and clips...... I do wear button braces with my clothes but i see nothing wrong with clip ons.
If you have buttons you should wear traditional braces..if you have clip on braces, wear then does it matter? enjoy
 

Jauntyone

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Buttons are ideal, but it can be difficult sewing them on as they must be sewed to the inner waistband without the stitches showing on the outer band. Also, modern pants aren't really made to be worn with braces--the inner band can be pulled up and out which is not very good!
Looking thru old magazines, I've seen many ads for clip-on braces, so I imagine that they were very popular in the golden age:
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Besides, if you wear a vest or leave your jacket on, who'll ever know?;)
 

Mysterious Mose

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Tomasso said:
They are termed links, as in: "I prefer that my morning coat have a link closure rather than a button closure."



BTW, suspender/brace buttons aren't generally attached using a shank. Actually, they're the only buttons on a suit that don't require a shank, due to their convex back.

Hello Tomasso,

Links, I never knew that. :) I think it looks great.
And yes, all the suspenders buttons on my trousers are convex,I checked. Again, I never knew. The few I put on myself weren't and when I sewed them on too tight the tabs curled up around the buttons. I like those bachelor buttons.

Thanks for your troubles, M.M.
 
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Clip-on suspenders are not the best choice by far, but they may be considered an inexpensive introduction to using suspenders. Much like a first fedora may have been a wool one, as one's education in these matters would lead to a furfelt next. So one may graduate up from clip on to button type.
 

davestlouis

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I have brace buttons in every pair of wool trousers I own, and have never worn braces. In theory I think they should be very comfortable, and allow one to wear trousers so they aren't tight at the waist. In reality, I'd feel silly wearing them. I have horrible memories of high school dances in the 80s, when people wore those silly clip-on braces, trying to look cool...yuck.

Related question: don't braces cause a lot of wear on your shirt? What material are they normally made of? Wouldn't they have a potential to discolor the shirt?
 
Doran said:
Sewing a button is truly the easiest thing imaginable.

It is as easy as tying shoes.

Learning to read is much harder.

If you can spell your name, you can sew a button.

If I did not know how to sew a button, I certainly wouldn't admit it in front of anyone.

You can learn how to do it in less than 30 seconds.

Yep, you walk into the tailor's shop leave the pants and when you come back they are done. Super easy. :p
 

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