Jacket: Sleeve Buttons

The number varies because no one really uses them to button and unbutton. So what then would be the correct number for what one is doing? It is up to one's and ine's tailor to figure that out.

"Hey Won Hung Lo, I'm going to cut meat in this suit, how many cuff buttons?"

"Thruth, you are one strange round eye"
 
gufasd said:
Why don't people use their sleeve buttons when they do stuff in their sportcoats or blazers? Do you seriously take off your coat when cooking or doing messy work?
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I have never done surgery in a suit or odd jacket. Nor would I cook or dismember a body in same
 
Um, they are functional for - as prince nez prince nez says - work. Remember, I wrap myself in a vest, coat and coat instead of a proper onecoat©, do my chores, then go to work, put on my suit, keep the cuffs buttoned, avoid cooking, use scrubs for surgery, post copiously on DW, change, go home. Nonneed to button/unbutton my cuffs.
 
If fake ones look tacky then having the potential for function in working sleeve buttons removes the tacky quotient. It is just we do not have a true purpose for them.

No buttons would look strange, no? or maybe full turn back cuffs instead?

There are always vestigial bit and pieces to things nothing is purely functional or utilitarian, except of course Blofeld

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Mao had'em

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Kim Jong is like LKP LKP . He digs the one button
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I usually go by the formula:

Sleeve button no = jacket button no. +1.

So a one button will have two on the sleeve, a three button four on the sleeve, etc.

Good as a general guide for symmetry. Like all rules, it's good to break sometimes.
 
I have a shorter arm, so I prefer less than 4. All my custom stuff is 3. I asked for two last time, but the idea was not met warmly and it probably wouldn't have worked right for that coat. Vintage American sack coats tend to have two button sleeves IME.
I once read someone giving the best reason to have working cuffs is that if you need to reach into a cooler full of melted ice and grab a beer, you can do it without removing the coat!
Thruth said:
No buttons would look strange, no?
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I've heard that Korean suits tend to come with just an unadorned sewn barrel cuff like this, and that some older (possibly cheaper) American sport coats were the same way. I'm wondering if anyone would ever notice.
 
Russell Street said:
I have a shorter arm, so I prefer less than 4. All my custom stuff is 3. I asked for two last time, but the idea was not met warmly and it probably wouldn't have worked right for that coat. Vintage American sack coats tend to have two button sleeves IME.
I once read someone giving the best reason to have working cuffs is that if you need to reach into a cooler full of melted ice and grab a beer, you can do it without removing the coat!

I've heard that Korean suits tend to come with just an unadorned sewn barrel cuff like this, and that some older (possibly cheaper) American sport coats were the same way. I'm wondering if anyone would ever notice.
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only you would know. most people would be oblivious to the lack of buttons
 
Russell Street said:
I've heard this, with regard to metal buttons on the front of the sleeve of military uniforms. I'm unsure if it is apocryphal or not.
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could very well be apocryphal. attributed to Frederick the Great. but seriously, i wipe my nose with the inside of my sleeve not the outer with buttons
 
pocket square's function is to fill empty pocket. Sleeve or Ukrainian Handkerchief for snot.
 
gufasd said:
Why not just use the pocket square to do that?
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I'm looking into coarser, cheaper, cotton or linen squares which can be functional as well. I have had women ask if I have a kleenex and when I wincingly present a silk square they refuse to use it. I have no idea how to launder silk anyway...
 
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