Leave the bottom button undone

 

Leave the bottom button undone

Always!

 

While I certainly agree with always leaving the bottom button undone, is it wrong to wear a cardigan with all the buttons undone?

 

While I certainly agree with always leaving the bottom button undone, is it wrong to wear a cardigan with all the buttons undone?

I personally don't like an unbuttoned cardigan. I think it works on a SJ/SC/BLZR because of the construction of the chest and lapels, which help it maintain its shape. A knit just looks funny to me when unbuttoned.

 

While I certainly agree with always leaving the bottom button undone, is it wrong to wear a cardigan with all the buttons undone?

I think it's just fine. A cardigan is casual dress, much more casual than a suit or sports coat.

 

Nonsense! The bottom button undone only loosely applies to waistcoats and then not all waistcoats. A cardigan should neither be worn like a jacket with only a couple of middle buttons done up nor as a formal waistcoat. It is casual knitwear and looks best with all done up or none at all.

 

It depends. There are too many varieties of cardigans and button stances for a once-size-catch-all, plus, as the Earl states, it is casual knitwear.

 

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Thanks to jackmccullough, hardline 42 and the Earl of Ormond for the responses to my earlier inquiry.

As to the Earl's suggestion that all cardigan buttons, including the bottom/last button, should be buttoned (if any are buttoned), wouldn't that create a situation that encourages such garments to creep ever higher on the wearer's hips? LOL. How could that ever be good?

 

Leave the bottom button undone

Yep! ...

 

I think the question about whether it looks ok to leave all buttons undone has more to do with the fit of sweater than anything else. These are casual clothes, so really the purported rules are a lot more flexible than if we were talking about suits or something. Thus, I also don't think the 'leave the bottom button undone' suggestion is right, either; I don't think it's 'wrong', though - just that it's a suggestion and shouldn't be taken as a rule like leaving the last button of a waistcoat undone. Back to the totally undone look, though... it's about the fit. A loose sweater will look sloppy when it's all undone, sagging in the wrong places and looking ill-fitting in general - think of like when you see a guy in an unbuttoned double breasted suit jacket. The horror! On the other hand, if the sweater fits a bit more on the snug side, it won't droop and look off, so I think it can be worn unbuttoned.

 

I think it's a preference to the wearer, I always leave the bottom button undone. Is there really an inappropriate way to wear a cardigan? Unbuttoning does seem to be trend, I did some research online.*

 

It depends on the cardigan and personal taste. In this case, I don't think unbuttoning the bottom button
would add anything to the overall look.

 

It depends on the cardigan and personal taste. In this case, I don't think unbuttoning the bottom button
would add anything to the overall look.
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I think it would. Much like a vest or a blazer, unbuttoning the lowest button adds something. It at least breaks up that disturbing horizontal lone...

 

I'm inclined to agree, Bjorn. And while cardigans aren't particularly to my taste, I do have one 'pub jacket' cardigan that I think looks much better with the bottom button open. However, that's an outerwear cardigan. One worn around the house to either save fuel costs or because the house is old enough not to have central heating might be a different story. After all, buttoning the bottom would hold in more heat.