Do You Add Working Button Holes on Your RTW Jacket Cuffs?

Sartorially Challenged · Feb 14, 2007

I am curious whether the prevailing practice among SFers is to have a tailor add working button holes on their RTW suit jackets.

The_Foxx · Feb 14, 2007

when the sleeves are basted/ prepared with the buttons bagged seperately, it seems a shame not to. I try to pay the cost required to add functional buttonholes to my suits and most of the time, sportcoats as well.

Get Smart · Feb 14, 2007

if your jacket isnt basted for adding functional buttons, and you make the effort to make them functional anyways, I think that's more of a negative affectation than almost anything that gets put down around these parts.

Huntsman · Feb 14, 2007

Originally Posted by Get Smart

if your jacket isnt basted for adding functional buttons, and you make the effort to make them functional anyways, I think that's more of a negative affectation than almost anything that gets put down around these parts.

Really? Isn't that a secret between you and your tailor? Sartorial confidence and all...

odoreater · Feb 14, 2007

Yup, I agree with both Foxx and GS. If the sleeves are basted and the buttons are in a seperate bag, then I always get working buttonholes. But, if the buttons are already sewn on, I don't bother with the working buttonholes.

Btw, I bet there is a positive correlation between people who say that working sleeve buton holes is only for bespoke or MTM and number of votes on the douche poll.

tbabes · Feb 14, 2007

I voted "yes, always" but these days I only buy RTW suit jackets that have basted sleeves and buttons in a separate bag. Same goes for sportscoats. So Isaia, yes, always.

mylesmyles · Feb 14, 2007

i voted yes for a few reasons, first i fit into a 36r with only needing to shorten the sleeves, i like the way it looks (and the curiosity it brings out in my coworkers), and i'm at the point in my career where i can't afford a closet of mtm suits, but i can splurge the extra cost for working button holes.

Get Smart · Feb 14, 2007

Originally Posted by Huntsman

Really? Isn't that a secret between you and your tailor? Sartorial confidence and all...

I suppose only you and your tailor would know since you won't be peacocking the open cuffs about town

....but deep inside you will know that you are satiating your inner sartorial douchebaggery (as that seems to be the word of the 'mo)

Sartorially Challenged · Feb 14, 2007

Do you wait to have the sleeves shortened, have the length checked and confirmed first and then have the button holes sewn?

Or do you trust your alteration tailor to do the sleeve shortening and button hole sewing at the same time?

chorse123 · Feb 14, 2007

Originally Posted by Sartorially Challenged

Do you wait to have the sleeves shortened, have the length checked and confirmed first and then have the button holes sewn?

Or do you trust your alteration tailor to do the sleeve shortening and button hole sewing at the same time?

That's not a bad idea. I trust my alterations tailor, but only because I'm getting minor alterations to length. If it was a big length change, I would wait.

The Happy Stroller · Feb 14, 2007

Whatever reason, working button holes makes your jacket more special.

YES for working button holes!

Originally Posted by mylesmyles

i voted yes for a few reasons, first i fit into a 36r with only needing to shorten the sleeves, i like the way it looks (and the curiosity it brings out in my coworkers), and i'm at the point in my career where i can't afford a closet of mtm suits, but i can splurge the extra cost for working button holes.

Master Shake · Feb 15, 2007

Originally Posted by Sartorially Challenged

Do you wait to have the sleeves shortened, have the length checked and confirmed first and then have the button holes sewn?

Or do you trust your alteration tailor to do the sleeve shortening and button hole sewing at the same time?
Don't trust. Nine out of ten times the sleeve lengths will be wrong, and it's much easier to fix them before button holes are cut.

Huntsman · Feb 15, 2007

Originally Posted by Get Smart

I suppose only you and your tailor would know since you won't be peacocking the open cuffs about town

....but deep inside you will know that you are satiating your inner sartorial douchebaggery (as that seems to be the word of the 'mo)

Heh, no, I'd just rock it like Amadeus -- like all the other weird-ass things I do. I have never had said operation performed, but I am thinking about sending the Huntsman in for it. Right about not peacocking! I'm a sartorial sleeper.

Regards,
Huntsman

j · Feb 15, 2007

I just consider it kind of wasteful, unless you're going to actually use the buttons. I guess I'm kind of a frugal minimalist or something.

Nothing against people who do it, just not for me.

The Happy Stroller · Feb 15, 2007

Brilliant tip, Master Shake. Next time, I'll get the Shanghai tailor/s to complete the jackets without the sleeve buttonholes and their cheap plastic buttons.

Originally Posted by Master Shake

Don't trust. Nine out of ten times the sleeve lengths will be wrong, and it's much easier to fix them before button holes are cut.

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