Why don't the bottom buttons on wasitcoats work?

Wasitmatter?

Do your wasitcoats reach your bottom?
Do you feeel the need to button it?

I want to know. I'm curious. As anyone will tell you.

Nice bit of schmutter

Ask a serious question and look what happens.

Google isn't helping either.

Do the 'Wear the fox hat' one while you're at it.

Aww! Not sure if there are haters about, but there are certainly some as mad as hatters.

I know, button up, Jo Anne.

C&A Coat and at

Stick to the topic.

I need to know.

29th April 2008 18:32

Just a bit off topic.

I don't think I'll be asking yon lady about westkit buttons, Jo Anne.

Interesting Makes a nice change...

I see she's safely buttoned up.

Just.

Wise, Dostaf (15:16)- she is clearly a stitch up artist.

This isn't helping my quest.

Neither use, nor ornament - I agree.

The button or the statue?

The button and my help.

I bet you've tried, too.

I can't find anything. The mester will probably have an answer. He knows knowledge.

He might well know the answer - a very smart man, no doubt.

I've not tried yet - I'll look later.

'Waistcoats with more than four buttons should have the bottom button undone, just as regular suit vests are normally worn.'

But no mention why

Google 'suit vest' time.

Oooohhhhhhh.

According to AAC's "Book"/CDROM ------ Why no men's garment is designed to be fastened by the bottom button: King Edward VII, “Bertie”, son of Victoria (1841 – 1910, King 1901 - 1910) was so heavy that he could not get the bottom button fastened on his vest or to be more historically kind, maybe he just forgot. His subjects taking it as a fashion statement followed his lead and today no man’s suit, sports jacket or vest is designed to button the bottom button. The tradition of not buttoning the bottom button may have also come from the early waistcoats, which were very long. It may have been out of necessity of being able to walk that the bottom buttons were left undone.


Here

Why don't the bottom buttons on wasitcoats work

prrobbally because the person wearing it is a fatty

Well done, Dostaf, but you could have just waited til Walshy posted, had you known.

Did you learn that in History, Walshy?

More February clarification for those that may need it.

No I googled it jo

Google is good.

Dostaf - the fellow cuts quite a dashing figure, being restricted to having the bottom button for decorative purposes only.

Very interesting.

King Edward V11, he was a fatty and couldnt fasten the bottom button. So it became fashionable. Also when riding a horse, it stopped the waistcoat riding up. Grooms traditionally dont fasten the bottom button on a waistcoat. Hope this helps in your quest

Cheers, Erontquay.

It's probably because it's not been ironed!

That could have presented a problem.

Who needs a coat for their waist anyway?

Me. In this weather.

I only start showing my midriff, thong and tramp stamp when the clocks go forward.

Clocks are almost always going forward!

I won't mention me Albert.

Google that if you wish.

Infamy! Infamy!

Midriff is a particular term to denominate the section of the human body between the thorax/chest and the pelvis/hips. It is used (1) as a genteel avoidance of synonymous belly (with its primary external physical feature, the navel); (2) as a synonym for waist; and (3) as a name for the area around (yet mainly below) the diaphragm (particularly including the stomach region).

Kench?

EDIT

Eh!

A belly laugh?

See new thread.

It's not a word I knew before WW.

Edit Can I type kench was beyond my ken before WW?

Thus serving as a reminder to the detractors, that some of this drivel can actually be informative.

Detractors?!

I'd imagine the more take-aways, the greater the kench.

Answers on a postcard

"Nowt wrong with 'em!"

Take-aways? Their cost can add up.

The tractors. (Typed in the same accent as used on corny old joke about a certain chiropodist)

corny - chiropodist

See what I did there?

Is John Deere a detractor?

Dostaf is an ex tractor fan - so he might be a John Deere detractor.

He was once.

Not ...

Cheers, Jo Anne.

I was just about to call in a debt. 10 Feb 17:16

No John Deere - Ploughman's Pickle

I thought I was very generous to him.

Even though he complains if I mention ventilation units.

You have recycled it quite a lot.

True.

Expect complaints.

Just when you think it's gone stale ...

... it gets a fresh airing.

Mind you, the 'octogenarian parachutist' one was original.

Even if it was based on an old one about a chap with a speech impediment.

the 'octogenarian parachutist' one was original

Not quite a repeat then.

No. He didn't bounce back.

TAXI!

Have you *watched this? (*Albert.)

Not yet. Coincidentally, here's another Albert Not a lot of poeple know that.

Albert E. Arkwright

And, coincidentally, Ronnie was also a George.

E ? I didn't know that.

"Albert" 5:20

I see it's googleable. (Wiki)

That's where I found it. wikipedia - click on Arkwright.

I knew it from the episode. Just had an idea and a google. I knew there was only his surname above the shop window.

But look at his licensing plate above the door

I recommend 'The King's Speech', by the way.