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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

JimWagner

Practically Family
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946
Location
Durham, NC
Just curious whether your suit suspenders button or snap to your trousers. I have some of each but far prefer the button on suspenders.
 

Lokar

A-List Customer
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383
Location
Nowhere
Buttons. I've never had a pair of clip/snap braces that hasn't broken relatively quickly. Plus, they're uglier...
 

Chad

New in Town
Messages
17
Location
Rochester Hills, MI
Am I the only one to use hooks in my double hole belt? It just seems more manly to me (sorry, no pictures, at the moment, but it's pretty descriptive).

Edit: but, if I was going dress (which is pretty rare in my roughout lifestyle) then I'd pick buttons.
 

Tomasso

Incurably Addicted
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13,719
Location
USA
My disdain for snap-on braces is rivaled only by my hatred of toggle back cufflinks. :rage:
 

Charlie Huang

Practically Family
Messages
612
Location
Birmingham, UK
Button. Clips are just bad and were invented for trousers that are not suppose to take braces. It is on my list of disdain which includes zip flies and low rise trousers.
 

Dr Doran

My Mail is Forwarded Here
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3,853
Location
Los Angeles
Button suspenders are also superior because they require buttons. :D And if your trousers do not have suspender-buttons, and you cannot figure out :eek: how to sew them on [huh] , then you have failed a basic IQ test and do not deserve to wear them. :eusa_doh: So I like the weeding-out effect this produces. lol
 

Mysterious Mose

Practically Family
Messages
516
Location
Gone.
Doran said:
Button suspenders are also superior because they require buttons. :D And if your trousers do not have suspender-buttons, and you cannot figure out :eek: how to sew them on [huh] , then you have failed a basic IQ test and do not deserve to wear them. :eusa_doh: So I like the weeding-out effect this produces. lol

:D
Most of my trousers already have 'em. For lazy idiots like me there's always these:
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dhermann1

I'll Lock Up
Messages
9,154
Location
Da Bronx, NY, USA
At swing dance events you see a lot of guys with standard low rise trousers, with clip on suspenders dancing around and thinking they're sooo cool, and they're just sooo uncool. They tend to compound the sin by wearing big fat 70's ties, in the mistaken belief that they resemble wide 40's ties. Ugh.
The other association I have with those clip ons goes back to my early childhood. Little boys in the late 40's and early 50's were frequently sent to school by their doting moms sporting striped jersey t-shirts (not printed, but multi color horizontal dark colors woven in) and baggy corduroys, held up by clip on suspenders. And scuffed up brown oxford shoes. I'd love to see some of those old t-shirts again. That's one vintage item you NEVER see, but the clip ons, bleccchhh!
 

Maguire

Practically Family
Messages
619
Location
New York
I wear clip ons if the pants don't have holes and i don't want to put on a belt. But i prefer button suspenders. I do not know how to sew, i usually get the tailors at the dry cleaners to put in buttons for me. Its a good 10-12 dollars but its worth it.
 

Dr Doran

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Location
Los Angeles
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.
 

Mysterious Mose

Practically Family
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516
Location
Gone.
Yeah, sewing buttons... just remember not to sew 'em on too tight. I use a matchstick behind the button (for jackets or braces).

Here's some more gentlemens/bachelors kit:
bachbut.jpg
 

mothfighter

New in Town
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21
Location
gintown,netherlands
going dutch

Hi Mose,
JongGezellen.jpg


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
 

Tomasso

Incurably Addicted
Messages
13,719
Location
USA
Mysterious Mose said:
just remember not to sew 'em on too tight. I use a matchstick behind the button (for jackets or braces).
Are you referring to employing a shank when attaching a button?

button3.jpg
 

Feraud

Bartender
Messages
17,190
Location
Hardlucksville, NY
Doran said:
Button suspenders are also superior because they require buttons. :D And if your trousers do not have suspender-buttons, and you cannot figure out :eek: how to sew them on [huh] , then you have failed a basic IQ test and do not deserve to wear them. :eusa_doh: So I like the weeding-out effect this produces. lol
Aw.. that's harsh.
 
Messages
11,579
Location
Covina, Califonia 91722
Back about high school I tried some of the snap type but I have a fairly long body and the suspenders always seemed a bit short. The snaps would slip off the pants and I got painfully swatted a number of times. Of course being high school the deficient had to snap the back of the suspenders until I crippled several of them for life.
 

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