sleeve plackets?

[Guest]

Hi. Just a random question for you…
Do high quality French cuffed shirts have sleeve plackets with buttons or without? I mean which is most correct? I have read that the button hole on a sleeve placket should be horizontal on a good quality shirt but I am not sure if this applies to French cuffed shirts as well.

Cheers.

[Guest]

If you have your shirts made for you, the choice is yours; I have mine made without gauntlet buttons. Massmade shirts vary, I think, more by maker's origin than by quality of construction; but I could be mistaken.

RWS

[Guest]

Hi. Just a random question for you…
Do high quality French cuffed shirts have sleeve plackets with buttons or without? I mean which is most correct? I have read that the button hole on a sleeve placket should be horizontal on a good quality shirt but I am not sure if this applies to French cuffed shirts as well.

Cheers.

I'd suppose that having a button or not would come down to personal preference. I have my shirts made with a button. Being a university student, I wear my shirts more often than not without a jacket, and I do not like the idea of showing a hairy underarm when the cuffs are closed.

I do not think that it matters whether the button hole is horizontal or vertical.

Regards,
Don

[Guest]

I do not think that it matters whether the button hole is horizontal or vertical.

It only matters in that with a horizontal buttonhole the placket is much less probable to come unbutonned accidentally.
But that is just for the sake of the argument, as I prefer all of my shirts (whether French- or barrel-cuffed) without a placket button: with the coat on it adds no benefit and with the coat off I probably have the first couple of buttons undone anyway, so whatever flesh briefly shows through the placket is not of much concern.

C

[Guest]

. . . . whatever flesh briefly shows through the placket is not of much concern.
C

For some of us, "whatever fur shows through the placket is not of much concern." Seriously, considering that casual sex is now common throughout the broader society (no, I'm not advocating for it), with nudity general on silver screen and little screen, I really doubt that many women under sixty would notice, let alone be offended by, the sight of another few square millimeters of male skin. And the omission of those troublesome buttons means two fewer for the laundry to chip.

RWS