Tailor "would not" implement functional buttons - Page 2

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Originally Posted by JLibourel 


What a warm, outgoing, "hail fellow, well met" outlook on life you must have!

Just an observation from experience. It hasn't affected my rosy outlook on life.  I try to like every person I meet and manage to find some reason most of the time.  However, dealing with the public at large, and especially in a professional setting is a different matter.  Don't you find incompetence, undeserved, unrealistic self-importance, self-entitlement coupled with an astonishing refusal to accept or take responsibility everywhere you go?  I do.  I expect incompetence with every organization and person I deal with every day.  I love the rare occasions when I find someone who knows what the hell they are doing and what they're talking about.  It's like a lovely flower blossoming in an expansive, dead and dying field.  I cherish those people.  Otherwise I have to expend more energy making up for the slack in those I'm dealing with.  I don't become frustrated or angry.  I become privately amused as it's exactly what I'm expecting.  That's western society at large and I've encountered this same phenomenon more or less in  every country in which I've travelled. I'm talking about objective facts and actions. 

Cordial discussions about subjective matters are completely different. 

So while I'm here, hail JLibourrel, well met! 

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Originally Posted by Willin 


Pot, meet kettle.

Everyone has an overinflated sense of self-importance to a degreee.  Everyone. Are you casting stones, Willin?  Shame on you. 

That small blurb which you emboldened is not only surrounded by an entire paragraph of context but, as you're aware,  related contextually to yet another post.  Do you deny that every organization, institution, bureaucracy, business and whathaveyou else is riddled with the incompetent?  Do you go through your day breezily like some character in a TV commercial who dances through his social environment with the greartest of ease where absolutely everything is working in perfect harmony?  Or do you find yourself hitting brick walls nearly every time you have to deal with some outside entity?  Do you ever have to call one of the utility companies, a government agency or press an issue with a company with which you've done business only to find you're dealing with someone who can't answer simple questions or make decisions despite the fact that they are at a level or pay grade in which they should?  Then as the cherry, they get haughty about it.  Isn't it correct to simply be amused and think of them as incompentent pricks?  Isn't correct to empathize with them, find a common ground and get something accomplished anyway?  If not then I'm both the pot and kettle. 

However, I think I'm calling a spade a spade. 

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Originally Posted by Suitcase Living 

Wow sorry for kicking off a flame war, next time I will begin with something less provactive than button holes.

Thanks I'll message jesse.

there's a button hole porn threak.  and other holes might end up at dumb threads.

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Originally Posted by David Reeves 

A machine buttonhole machine is a very expensive item so a small tailor wouldn't normally have it. He may not have the time, skill or inclination to make you functioning buttonholes by hand. Even if they were done by hand they would not match the rest of the buttonholes on the suit very well and this would drive me bonkers.

Quite. I can only think that the OP has been led to believe by Esquire and GQ that this is a simple operation that any tailor can do (and would want to do).

And I know that the #menswear press would have people believe that surgeon cuffs are an essential for differentiating oneself from less well-dressed people, but it's really not the case. I'm not even sure I see the point in them if one is getting suits or coats made from scratch. It's not as if I am ever going to undo them. So the last time I had a suit made, I didn't bother. And you know what? No-one notices, not even me.