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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I recently went on a clothes-shopping spree (one that appears to be continuing, NTTAWWT). While I was arranging to get some of the clothes altered, the salesguy asked if I wanted to have "functional buttonholes" sewn into the sleeves of my sportcoats. He then showed me how the buttons at the bottom of his sleeves were not merely decorative, but could be opened and closed.
WTF? What is the purpose of this? They look stupid if opened, and I can't think of any practical purpose to having a little half-inch opening at the bottom of your coat-sleeves. This did not seem worth paying another fifty bucks, per jacket, on top of what was already a seriously out-of-control purchase.
Now I'm worried. Did I miss out on a new trend? Was there some benefit that I failed to understand? Should I have gotten the functional button-holes?
On the bright side, I was wearing one of the new coats this morning and a really hot blond totally smiled and checked me out as I was leaving the gym.
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At one point in time, functional buttonholes were one of the telltale marks of a bespoke jacket or suit.
Then the high-end OTR manufacturers (Zegna, Oxxford, etc.) started putting functional buttonholes on their top-line products. These days some top-end suits will come with unfinished cuffs on the jacket, so that the cuff can be adjusted to accomodate wrist size, what arm you wear your watch on, etc.
It's basically one of those things that some people look at as a sign of quality, and others look at as a sign of price.
