Button-down shirts

[cjsmith]

Who came up with the idea of selling button-down shirts to women? If men's pants were designed with such idiocy, guys would flash their junk every time they took a step.

I know better and I still bought one.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'm confused, too. A button down shirt to me is when the collar tabs have buttons on them. I can't imagine a woman wearing a shirt like that, mostly in that they're built for a man.

Is that some modern fashion for women-in-the-office that I've never heard of?

(scratching head)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I meant a shirt made of woven non-stretch fabric in which the front center closure, for the length of the shirt, is buttons.

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Great definition! Have you been having to write good requirements for engineers lately? *g*

Bean and I have taken to calling these "button up shirts" or "collared shirts". They're pretty much all I wear when I go on training gigs, interviews, etc.

And I'm a busty person, too. And I refuse to wear shirts that gap at the buttons (or have pockets over the tits, which is a different issue). If you get a shirt that *actually* fits, it will fit.

(Note that most inexpensive shirts will not fit this definition because they are poorly made.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I care less how well it's made than how well it FITS. Sadly, there are excellent economic incentives against fitting shirts to people shaped like me.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

or have pockets over the tits, which is a different issue

I just always assumed those were meant to be decorative :)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

I call that a button-*up* shirt - a button-down one is what billeyler said.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Huh. I button them *down*, not up. :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

me too, but i *call* it 'buttoning up my shirt' :)

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

A button down shirt to me is when the collar tabs have buttons on them. I can't imagine a woman wearing a shirt like that, mostly in that they're built for a man.

*is confused* They, uh, fit my neck just fine. Last I checked, necks weren't one of the places where male and female bodies differ significantly.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Oh, yah...I understand what the issue is...

Next time I see CJ, I'm hoping she'll wear that particular shirt so we can admire all the gappy parts! ;-)