So, I picked up my two new suits yesterday, and when I took them out of the fancy bag I noticed that a cuff button was missing from one of the jackets. I didn’t notice that when I tried it on to make sure the alterations were done properly.<\/p>\n
Non-parenthetical interlude: What’s the purpose of cuff buttons on jackets, anyway? They’re non-functional. And why have four of them on each sleeve? Is the number an indication of the quality of the clothing, like the stripes on the lining of ties<\/a> allegedly did back in the days that certain college students took their sartorial tips from Playboy Magazine<\/i>? I have sport coats and blazers with anywhere from two to four buttons on the cuffs, and there’s no clear difference in quality. As far as I can discern, cuff buttons are just non-shiny bling.<\/p>\n Anyway, the way I saw it, I had three clear choices in dealing with the missing button.<\/p>\n First, I could drive back across town, confront the salesperson, and try to convince her that I really was<\/i> that unobservant so as not to notice the missing button when I tried on the jacket in the store, and that it didn’t pop off after I left. That seemed like a confrontational time-suck to me.<\/p>\n Second, I could do nothing. Who’s going to notice a missing cuff button on a suit? It’s not like I walk around with my hands in a perpetual attitude of prayer whilst suit-clad. And if someone did notice, I could tell them that I have all my suits tailored that way…just call it my special eccentricity. The downside is that my wife would likely be the one to notice and she’s already on top of my special eccentricities.<\/p>\n The third choice was the clear winner. I snipped off the corresponding button on the other cuff with the scissors from my mini-Swiss army knife, thereby addressing two needs: the need for button balance, and the need to play with knives. (Fortunately, it was the top button that was missing; it would have looked odd – even for me – to have two identically-missing buttons in the middle of the series.) As an added bonus, I now have an extra button, so I’ve got that going for me.<\/p>\n Before you go judging me (especially you ladies), look me in the eye and tell me that you’ve never performed similar surgery on your own apparel. Yeah, that’s what I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I picked up my two new suits yesterday, and when I took them out of the fancy bag I noticed that a cuff button was missing from one of the jackets. I didn’t notice that when I tried it on to make sure the alterations were done properly. Non-parenthetical interlude: What’s the purpose of… Continue reading Suit Surgery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12590,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/12590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}