Still More Bottom-Button Banter
The smallest of sartorial details continues to punch above its weight. Plus the economics of extra shirt buttons, and more.
As you may recall, Tuesday’s post was about how some men’s shirt brands use contrast-colored thread for securing the bottom button and/or lining the bottom buttonhole. That prompted a comment from reader Christopher Cameron, who said that a clothing brand called Taylor Stitch, which I hadn’t heard of before, takes things a step further by using a different color for the bottom button itself.
As I quickly discovered on Taylor Stitch’s website, the bottom button on some of their shirts (but not all of them) is a dark navy blue, even when the rest of the buttons are white. Here are some examples:
