Poll: Button or snaps on your suspenders?

[JimWagner]

Just curious whether your suit suspenders button or snap to your trousers. I have some of each but far prefer the button on suspenders.

 

[Lokar]

Buttons. I've never had a pair of clip/snap braces that hasn't broken relatively quickly. Plus, they're uglier...

 

[cufflinkmaniac]

Buttons are the only way to go, in my opinion.

 

[Bugsy]

Buttons always!!

 

[Chad]

Am I the only one to use hooks in my double hole belt? It just seems more manly to me (sorry, no pictures, at the moment, but it's pretty descriptive).

Edit: but, if I was going dress (which is pretty rare in my roughout lifestyle) then I'd pick buttons.

 

[Dr Doran]

I wore clip-on skinny suspenders when I was a punk in the 1980s. I've worn button ones since then.

 

[Tomasso]

My disdain for snap-on braces is rivaled only by my hatred of toggle back cufflinks. :rage:

 

[Carlisle Blues]

My disdain for snap-on braces is rivaled only by my hatred of toggle back cufflinks. :rage:

:arated:

 

[Charlie Huang]

Button. Clips are just bad and were invented for trousers that are not suppose to take braces. It is on my list of disdain which includes zip flies and low rise trousers.

 

[Dr Doran]

Button suspenders are also superior because they require buttons. And if your trousers do not have suspender-buttons, and you cannot figure out how to sew them on [huh] , then you have failed a basic IQ test and do not deserve to wear them. :eusa_doh: So I like the weeding-out effect this produces. lol

 

[Mysterious Mose]

Button suspenders are also superior because they require buttons. And if your trousers do not have suspender-buttons, and you cannot figure out how to sew them on [huh] , then you have failed a basic IQ test and do not deserve to wear them. :eusa_doh: So I like the weeding-out effect this produces. lol

Most of my trousers already have 'em. For lazy idiots like me there's always these:

 

[Dr Doran]

Most of my trousers already have 'em. For lazy idiots like me there's always these:

Great picture! Great product-art! I love it.

 

[dhermann1]

At swing dance events you see a lot of guys with standard low rise trousers, with clip on suspenders dancing around and thinking they're sooo cool, and they're just sooo uncool. They tend to compound the sin by wearing big fat 70's ties, in the mistaken belief that they resemble wide 40's ties. Ugh.
The other association I have with those clip ons goes back to my early childhood. Little boys in the late 40's and early 50's were frequently sent to school by their doting moms sporting striped jersey t-shirts (not printed, but multi color horizontal dark colors woven in) and baggy corduroys, held up by clip on suspenders. And scuffed up brown oxford shoes. I'd love to see some of those old t-shirts again. That's one vintage item you NEVER see, but the clip ons, bleccchhh!

 

[Maguire]

I wear clip ons if the pants don't have holes and i don't want to put on a belt. But i prefer button suspenders. I do not know how to sew, i usually get the tailors at the dry cleaners to put in buttons for me. Its a good 10-12 dollars but its worth it.

 

[Dr Doran]

Sewing a button is truly the easiest thing imaginable.

It is as easy as tying shoes.

Learning to read is much harder.

If you can spell your name, you can sew a button.

If I did not know how to sew a button, I certainly wouldn't admit it in front of anyone.

You can learn how to do it in less than 30 seconds.

 

[Mysterious Mose]

Yeah, sewing buttons... just remember not to sew 'em on too tight. I use a matchstick behind the button (for jackets or braces).

Here's some more gentlemens/bachelors kit:

 

[mothfighter]

going dutch

Hi Mose,

Guess this is the Dutch version of the BB.
My contribution to the Mose-eum!
(I'll Take It with me the next time we meet; in case you don't
have it in the collection already, which I doubt!!)

Great Suit BTW (The German one?)

Cheers, Kaar

 

[Tomasso]

just remember not to sew 'em on too tight. I use a matchstick behind the button (for jackets or braces).

Are you referring to employing a shank when attaching a button?

 

[Feraud]

Button suspenders are also superior because they require buttons. And if your trousers do not have suspender-buttons, and you cannot figure out how to sew them on [huh] , then you have failed a basic IQ test and do not deserve to wear them. :eusa_doh: So I like the weeding-out effect this produces. lol

Aw.. that's harsh.

 

[John in Covina]

Back about high school I tried some of the snap type but I have a fairly long body and the suspenders always seemed a bit short. The snaps would slip off the pants and I got painfully swatted a number of times. Of course being high school the deficient had to snap the back of the suspenders until I crippled several of them for life.