Button Fly Jeans... Whats the deal?

gmrankin · #1 10-12-2005, 05:27 AM

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.

Ulysses · #2 10-12-2005, 05:32 AM

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

goofball · #3 10-12-2005, 05:37 AM

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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?

Tron · #4 10-12-2005, 05:39 AM

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.

gmrankin · #5 10-12-2005, 05:49 AM

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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.

Tron · #6 10-12-2005, 05:52 AM

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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]

thatpfunk · #7 10-12-2005, 07:44 AM

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.

#8 10-12-2005, 07:56 AM

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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

benza13 · #9 10-12-2005, 08:40 AM

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.

samjjones · #10 10-12-2005, 09:13 AM

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