Bound buttonholes . . .

[Marabunta]

What an elegant touch. While my sister owns many garments whose buttonholes have been bound . . . sometimes in contrasting color, I'm not sure I own anything with bound buttonholes. Is this a 'dressmaker' touch, rather than a shared standard, for men and women's garments? Do the rest of you own garments that have been finished, with bound buttonholes?

[dopey]

Please explain what you mean. Are you referring to buttonholes made as on a suit - gimp surrounded by buttonhole thread?

[bengal-stripe]

It is a dressmaker’s devise and isn’t really used in men’s garments (exception are leather coats). For heavy, loosely woven tweeds (think Chanel), you probably could not make another form of buttonhole.

Please explain what you mean.

As you can see in the picture, it is a buttonhole, constructed like a tiny besom (jetted) pocket. (A welt on the top and a welt on the bottom.)

[Marabunta]

. . . thank you. That is as I suspected. Bound buttonholes do lend a most elegant touch, to women's clothes.

[Algernon]

I have seen people wearing suits with such buttonholes recently; they are RTW suits, in those rather shiny synthetic fabrics with what can only be described as unpleasant stripes. They also look cluttered when used for the lapel, in my view. This has jaundiced my view of bound buttonholes somewhat.

[Marabunta]

I don't blame you.