Button Fly Jeans... Whats the deal?
 

This has been starting to annoy me. Not badly, but just enough to make me question why do most of my jeans have button flies. I don't really pay attention when I buy them; I am just looking for the ones on the clearance rack in my size. But I would probably say that 90% of the jeans that own now have buttons vs. a zipper.

1) I don't see a fashion benefit to them, I mean there are only a few people that actually get close enough to tell whether My jeans have a zipper fly or buttons.

2) I don't see a ease of use factor to having buttons vs. a zipper. The reason I started thinking about this was because I find my self hobbling over to the sink in the bathroom at work, trying to get the buttons closed, and hoping no one walks in and wonders why I am playing with my self in the middle of the bathroom. You know there is always that one that is a bitch to close. IMO it is so much easier and quicker just to zip it up.

3) I guess you could argue for a safety aspect, if you recognize "franks and beans" you know what I am talking about, but that is only really an issue on free-ball Friday.

So what’s the deal with button fly jeans? I see no benefit but as some marketing ploy. Is a button really an advance over a zipper? Man I wish I had better things to worry about. But its 5 in the morning and I am at work, so I don’t. Thanks OOT. Over and out.

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I prefer them. I am not sure why, though.

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I prefer them. I am not sure why, though.

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Is it because that's the one place in your wardrobe you don't care to have sharp interlocking metal teeth?

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This might be a result of jeans getting slimmer and tighter... It is much easier to button a button that is under stress than it is to zip a zipper that is under stress. It doesn't seem like jeans have gotten THAT tight, though.

Also, unbuttoning is much, much faster for me.

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This might be a result of jeans getting slimmer and tighter...


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Mine havent, they just keep getting bigger!!

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Also, unbuttoning is much, much faster for me.

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Unbuttoning and unzipping is a wash, Its the buttoning that i can't stand.

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Unbuttoning and unzipping is a wash, Its the buttoning that i can't stand.

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Yeah, I suppose it is pretty trivial that unbuttoning takes half the time of unzipping when unzipping only takes 1/5 of a second anyway [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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i prefer them. you don't have to worry about breaking zippers, pinching skin, etc.

also, you don't have to unbutton all of them when you're just taking a piss. buttoning up 2 or 3 is no problem and quick.

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1) I don't see a fashion benefit to them, I mean there are only a few people that actually get close enough to tell whether My jeans have a zipper fly or buttons.



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I think they're kinda sexy

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90%????

I have never owned a pair of button fly jeans, in fact I dont think I have even tried one on. To those that claim it is a safety issue, are you retarted? If you can't zip up without pinching skin then you definitely should stick to sweatpants.

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Have never liked them. I go out of my way to get zipper.