bottom button of waistcoat at a wedding?

ianbar0

we have been told that you shouldn't button up your bottom button on your waistcoat? the other story we was told is not to button it up until the wedding ceremony is done?

Sambucus_Nigra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waistcoat

balletshoes

I was googling at the same time as you Sambucus!

Nowt to do with wedding tradition by the looks of things.

StumpyPumpy

Just one of those strange "traditions". supposedly started when King Edward VII got too fat to button up his waistcoats properly. The royal court copied him, presumably to avoid showing him up and it entered into fashion mythology.

I'd say if you're too fat to button it properly, leave it undone, citing tradition to cover said portliness; if you're not, button it properly like a waistcoat is intended to be.

SP

vixarooni

I hate seeing a bottom waist coat done up! Always undone, wedding or not in my opinion!

meritaten

I was always under the impression that the bottom button on a waistcoat was never done up! I can remember my grampy and some other older uncles wearing them and the button was never done up! in fact I never button the bottom button on my cardie - must be some ingrained ettiquette there! and in fact waistcoats are designed this way and now look odd if you do the button up!
I have NEVER heard of this buttoning up the waistcoat AFTER the wedding! presumably the groom is not going to be thinking of his waiscoat while escorting his new missus down the aisle!

GlennTheBaker

When I was getting my wedding suit a few years ago, the chap at the suit hire place specifically said that the bottom button should NEVER be done up.

Mrs.W_2

If the waistcoat is double breasted, all the buttons are fastened. Not sure if it's true, but was told many years ago that waistcoats are cut for the best fit with an open bottom button.

The same used to be said for single breasted lounge suit jackets. From the top, the three buttons were fastened as, 'always, sometimes, never.'

onlyroz

Surely you wear it however YOU want to wear it?

Sambucus_Nigra

vixarooni wrote: »

I hate seeing a bottom waist coat done up! Always undone, wedding or not in my opinion!

You hate it? Seriously? Hate? #dramallama

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LandyAndy

onlyroz wrote: »

Surely you wear it however YOU want to wear it?

Absolutely.

And wear your trousers backwards if you want to.;)