When you purchase braces, they come with buttons. Have an alteration person sew in the buttons and you're set. Most braces are adjustable and they do not have to match anything, since no one will ever see them.also, i have no idea how to go about choosing a pair of braces.
what criteria does it have to meet?
do braces come in specific sizes or are they of the adjustable one-size-fits-all variety?
What kind of a world do we live in where people have go to a tailor to get buttons sewn on? This is a 5 minute job!When you purchase braces, they come with buttons. Have an alteration person sew in the buttons and you're set. Most braces are adjustable and they do not have to match anything, since no one will ever see them.
A gentlemen never removes his jacket in public!
Dunno about freshfood, but I certainly hadn't known this. Can you elaborate?With shirts and coats and pants, it's the button that does the work; with brace buttons it's the thread.
Most buttons involve very little pressure on the threads. Braces buttons are under more stress, which stress is really borne by the thread which fastens the buttons to the pants rather than the buttons themselves. In contrast, the threads of shirt buttons receive hardly any more stress when the shirts are buttoned as opposed to unbuttoned. Not so for braces buttons.Dunno about freshfood, but I certainly hadn't known this. Can you elaborate?
(The only think I can think of is that brace button thread may be subject to more abrasion than other button thread. Is that what you mean?)
Posted by Peak and Pine said:With shirts and coats and pants, it's the button that does the work; with brace buttons it's the thread.
Certainly. Elaborate is my middle name.KURT said:I certainly hadn't known this. Can you elaborate?
The only thing I would add here is that there have been times when my collar button and the waist button on my chinos would protest that if we're talking about stress, they deserve to be classed with the brace buttons.With a shirt button, the object is strictly to keep the shirt closed. The button, inserted into the hole and twisted, does this. There is no gravity involved. A brace button on the other hand serves only as a tying point for the thread and to keep the brace strap from slipping off. But the thread of the brace button becomes like a tiny girder to hold the pants up against the force of gravity, the force of up-and-down movement and the force of an often large ass. I know this because I majored in buttons in school.
You make it sound like either-or. In this kind of situation, I generally prefer both. :icon_smile_big:Speaking of brace buttons, here's something you might consider. Or make fun of. Your choice.
Aha! See, you think as I do. Now, the other place I saw the inside/outside suggestion, the guy said it should be the back ones that are inside, so they don't catch on stuff. (Actually, what he worried about was marring the leather seats on his Rolls: https://www.bownsbespoke.com/albertthurston.htm.) But he's a snob and a twit, whereas you are a charmingly abrasive eccentric, possessed of a genuinely free-thinking and innovative spirit. Reason enough to consider your suggestion. That plus the fact that you've actually tried it. (And you haven't had those back buttons snag on stuff?)It's sometimes discussed here the anguish of putting the buttons inside or outside. What to do, o what to do. You could do both. Front inside, rear outside.
If he keeps his jacket on, I don't think her would marr the seat of the car the least bit. On the other hand, having the buttons on the inside, might marr own's own seat.Actually, what he worried about was marring the leather seats on his Rolls: https://www.bownsbespoke.com/albertthurston.htm.
