trouser waist-button vice catch

My trousers, which were tailored in Singapore, have both button and

I have bought pants in regular stores here in Saskatoon........far far far from Singapore........and they have had the same thing. Only dress pants of course, and not all of them........some of the more recent ones are the self belt style, and those have it too, only the catch hook is usually closer to the side seam.

Otherwise I don't know if there is a specific purpose for why the tailor in Singapore did it. I didn't help much.

Michelle Giordano

On 2005-04-10 alanh snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com said: >Newsgroups: alt.sewing >My trousers, which were tailored in Singapore, have both button and >catch-hook in the waistband at the top of the fly. >do they have different functions? Why did the tailor put in both, >not just one or the other? Was his father a safety engineer? We _do_ like redundancy.

Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

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This is a wardrobe malfunction preventive device.

Thanks for clearing this up for me, and a good laugh!!! I have always wondered the same thing.

Kirsten Sollie