I take issue with the placement of buttons on women’s button-up shirts. There always ends up being that space between the 2nd and 3rd button that bulges out slightly, so that from the side anyone can get a glimpse of whatever is (or isn’t) under your shirt; and sometimes it looks weird from the front, too. The bigger your boobs are, the worse it is. Why don’t they just adjust the spacing/placement of the buttons and be done with it? All my female friends and acquaintances have this problem… it’s exasperating.
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14 Responses to "Button Idiocy"
That’s probably because I’m sure many shirts are designed by men - just for such purposes.
It’s pretty much the same thing as women’s shoes. “Dress” shoes for women almost look painful just sitting on the store shelves, while men’s dress shoes are not only comfortable, but quite versatile. Do you really mean to tell me they can’t design women’s apparel to be both “fashionable” and comfortable?
I have a good friend that NO MATTER what she is wearing, you can see her bra and boobs. I don’t really mind, and I don’t think that she really cares, but I agree, it is the buttons that do it; so that makes me think that there is some perverted old man designing these shirts so he can glimpse at boobs in the grocery store! Clever old man!
(I didn’t write that.)
Yes, it is very confusing. The first Adam Z. is a fellow geek from the MIT program. His last name even has the same number of syllables as yours, Zagursky.
It’s a strange world in which we live.
Oh; cool.
Well would moving the buttons solve the problem or would it just create another weird hole?
Use velcro.
Yay! Boobies!
Three cheers for buttons…
Three cheers for buttons…
Three cheers for button placement!
I wonder if the button-fly pants I have on right now are revealing my boxer-covered wang to the masses?
I saw my first nipple that way. I went to a private Catholic school, and the girl (Bethany… I’ll never forget) was wearing a button up oxford style shirt. The shirt seperated between the two buttons, and magically, her bra folded in such a way as to make nipple fully available for viewing.
So, while I feel for you women, having to deal with this on a daily basis, female shirt button placement will always hold a special place in my heart.
The shirt seperated between the two buttons, and magically, her bra folded in such a way as to make nipple fully available for viewing.
I’ve seen more nipples that way…
Wait, wait, wait. Men that design women shirts don’t care so much about seeing what’s under them.
The button placement is always a problem, expecially when you are (ahem) well endowed. Then, even when you buy the shirt a size (or even 2) too big to avoid just this controversy, the shirt swallows you but the button placement still allows the material to bulge… I’ve given up. I just assume if people wanna see ‘em, they’re there.
Yes! I hate having to buy shirts a size too big because of this. Perhaps I should give up as well, but I feel it looks more ridiculous to get the right size and have it bulging all over the place. I guess it’s just trading one kind of a ridiculousness for another. In that vein, I must return a shirt to Old Navy this weekend… get a medium instead of a small. Gah.