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Faux Buttonhole stitches or no?

cgo

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As some of you are probably aware of, the RLBL suits does not have any faux stitching on the sleeves' buttonholes. My tailor has asked me if I want to add this as he thinks it is better with the stitches.

What do you think? At first I thought of adding them however thinking that it is kinda of RLBL's "signature" I have asked him to hold of on it.

Thanks
 

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I think the lack of faux holes is to allow adjustmments to your sleeve length by your tailor and to give you the option of having working or faux button holes. It's not a signature; it's an opportunity.

Rob
 

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In saying that, would it be better then to have my tailor add the stitches after he shorten the sleeves for me?
 

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It's a personal decision. I have working buttonholes put on my Black Label suits.
 

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Be a man, have working buttonholes installed. Chicks dig it.
 

cgo

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I would like that however it might be costly no?
 

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If you do anything at all, do not do the faux buttonholes..
 

cgo

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so it'll be either no faux or proper working buttonholes?
 

cgo

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alright.....my tailor said that there is not enough fabric lining to make it as working buttonholes so i'll have my first non faux buttonholes suit
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sounds like a lazy tailor to me....
 

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Originally Posted by cgo
alright.....my tailor said that there is not enough fabric lining to make it as working buttonholes so i'll have my first non faux buttonholes suit
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Originally Posted by fcuknu
sounds like a lazy tailor to me....

Funny that I'm finding this discussion on here as I was just speaking to my tailor this morning about whether I wanted functioning cuffs on my suit jacket. I believe in order to have functioning cuffs you need to have two layers of the suit fabric one over the other to create the holes. Depending on how much shorter you reduce the sleeve there may or may not be enough material available to go underneath. This is also dependent on where the buttons end up obviously. Essentially, the lower the button stance the less fabric is required to be rolled underneath and vice versa.

Can any experts further attest to this?
 

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Originally Posted by gnatty8
If you do anything at all, do not do the faux buttonholes..

+1

FWIW, it sounds like your tailor is padding his cost.
 

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yes albern its true, a substantial foundation is needed to make buttonholes. on the coat front you have two layers of wool fabric and one layer of canvas between. on sleeves you need two layers of wool fabric and two layers of wiggan in between.
wiggan is the cotton reenforcement at the sleeve bottom.
 

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thanks for all the response. I have decided to NOT do the faux buttonholes and leave it as is
 

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