Those extra buttons on men's dress shirts

[KurtNYC]

What a strange creature the men's dress shirt is. In those plastic bags it looks like some kind of origami. It is the clothing item you are least likely to be allowed to try on before you buy it. Of course it won't fit you worth a damn anyway. There is lots of extra fabric in the body of the shirt to accomodate those 6-pac abs that are now more like a 12-pack of brewski. But the extra fabric isn't in the front. It is in the back -- as if men store extra fat the way camels do.

It costs too much, you only buy it because you have to and it doesn't fit but to add injury to insult there are those extra buttons. 100 years ago shirt buttons could be made of such fine materials as mother of pearl. They were unique sizes and patterning and perhaps hard to match if you lost one. But these days they are all the same size and made of plastic. It would be harder to find a button that DOESN'T look like that than one that does.

And where do they put these extra buttons? Well, I'm pretty sure whoever designed these oppressive shirts has it in for the male body. I really don't need three hard plastic discs stuffed into the front of my pants! Perhaps the reason that dress shirts are dying out and casual Friday now rules the week is that they put their damned worthless buttons in the most uncomfortable place.

[tsakshaug]

1. That's why

I buy my shirts at Goodwill- can try them on

[HereSince1628]

2. It sounds like no one ever taught you how to fold yourself into a dress

shirt.

Properly getting into a shirt, like tying a bowtie,speaking grammar school French and rules of Cricket, is one of the distinguishing characteristics of being a cultured man.

But as I have never been called cultured I'll leave that explanation to someone else.

[6th Borough]

3. Ehh? My favorite dress shirt has mother of pearl buttons.

And comes with 2 extras. Just have to shop around, I guess.

On the flip side, is does happen to be the most expensive shirt I own.