I hear people referring to shirts that button all the way down the front as button-downs.INCORRECT.
A button-down refers to the collar. The collar buttons down. Brooks calls this a polo shirt, as the collar points were allegedly flapping all around until some Brooks weisenheimer came up with have the collar button-down. In fact, they have a patent on such shirts to the point that Ralph Lauren button-downs cannot have the normal ubiquitous Polo by Ralph Lauren logo:
But rather just say Ralph Lauren (with the pony between first and last names) as here:
Point is, don't call a shirt that doesn't have a button-down collar a button-down.
Things are shitty enough.
5 comments:
Have you been spending quality time with GQ's Style Guy?
Who is stupid enough to refer to a button down the that way? Who?
Oh my Lord.
So upset about this I added an extra "the" to the above.
And whilst commenting, I will point out that non-button downs are -- what else? -- "button up" shirts? I mean, has the whole world gone lackadaisical about direction?
By the way, so glad someone finally had the cojones to take this one on.
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