Wearing jacket cuff buttons undone

[martin576]

Is it considered vulgar to wear undone some cuff buttons on a jacket to indicate that the suit is bespoke ? Any general rule about whether it should be one or two ?

 

[Matt Deckard]

I like to walk around with two undone now and again, though it's no indicator that the suit is bespoke. You can get jackets off the rack at Banana Republic with functional sleeve buttons. It is a nice touch and I always prefer the style... I like it when all my buttons serve a purpose.

 

[LondonLuke]

I read somewhere that it is considered ostentatious and vulgar-most OTR don't have functioning buttons-and shows off that your suit is bespoke and that you're rich. In Britain, showing off your wealth isn't the done thing. Might be allowed in the States though, you guys are a bit more showy

 

[Micawber]

Personal choice I suppose but I do not just as I do not walk around with my button fly undone.

 

[Charlie Noodles]

I think I would consider it vulgar if one really was doing it just to show that it was bespoke, but I wonder how many today would even realise this?

I would not have thought about it like that. And even in my ignorance I would consider myself more well versed in these matters than the average man.

 

[LondonLuke]

I think I would consider it vulgar if one really was doing it just to show that it was bespoke, but I wonder how many today would even realise this?

I would not have thought about it like that. And even in my ignorance I would consider myself more well versed in these matters than the average man.

I was out for lunch the other day, and saw a guy in a very nice suit, but he left the cuffs undone to show it was bespoke, and kept on publically fiddling with them to show it off further. I just thought what a w@nker

 

[Micawber]

I was out for lunch the other day, and saw a guy in a very nice suit, but he left the cuffs undone to show it was bespoke, and kept on publically fiddling with them to show it off further. I just thought what a w@nker

Oh yes I've seen people do that and it invariably provokes a similar emotion.

 

[Nash Buckingham]

This seems akin to leaving the price tag hanging off the sleeve - of course then we'd know it wasn't bespoke!

 

[LondonLuke]

What about that weird thing with designer suits-leaving the label on the wrist? Just looks stupid, and shows you paid £600+ for a designer suit when you could have gotten one equally good from M&S for a fraction of the price [huh]

 

[Tomasso]

Men have been doing it for years.

 

[LondonLuke]

I'm dissapointed with you, Clark Gable (please tell me that was correct....)

 

[Feraud]

I'm dissapointed with you, Clark Gable (please tell me that was correct....)

Not even close.


To each his own on the suit cuff button business. I like the detail but do not go out of my way looking for this essentially useless item. My off the rack sport coat that has working buttons see no use.

 

[patrick1987]

David Niven. Nice jacket.
I thought buttons were to keep us from wiping our noses on our sleeves?

 

[Senator Jack]

It costs about $5 U.S. to make surgeon buttons. Showing them off should hardly seem ostentatious.

 

[KObalto]

Not even close.


To each his own on the suit cuff button business. I like the detail but do not go out of my way looking for this essentially useless item. My off the rack sport coat that has working buttons see no use.

Actually, I believe jackets originally had sleeve buttons so one could undo them to get the jacket on over ruffled shirt sleeves.

 

[Feraud]

Actually, I believe jackets originally had sleeve buttons so one could undo them to get the jacket on over ruffled shirt sleeves.

Yes that was probably the case. Considering no one today wears ruffled shirt sleeves that makes the functioning jacket cuff useless. That useless aspect is what I am referring to.

 

[Micawber]

Surgeon's cuffs.

 

[Mr. Rover]

I have had suits with them and I find them a pain- they actually make it harder for me to slip on an overcoat. I have used them before when washing my hands while wearing a linen suit, however. Sometimes I leave the last button undone, but I rarely have all of them open. Just makes my sleeves fly around at the end.
I believe Sartorialist took a photo of a man riding a bike with his jacket sleeves and shirt sleeves slightly rolled up- it looked very nonchalant.

 

[LondonLuke]

Actually, I believe jackets originally had sleeve buttons so one could undo them to get the jacket on over ruffled shirt sleeves.

I thought it was because in the days before central heating, men would not wish to take off their jackets in the home, and if they had to do any washing up or something else, they could just roll up the sleeves?

 

[Geesie]

Unbuttoning the cuffs to show that it is an expensive suit is undeniably vulgar, as is doing anything for the sole purpose of displaying wealth.

Unbuttoning the cuffs because you like the way it looks is not.