The other day, I was dressing Soren in one of his rugby shirts, and he decided he wanted all the buttons to be done up, including the top one. I explained that the top one is generally left unbuttoned.
Soren: Why is it a button instead of nothing?
Me: To be fancy, I guess.
Soren [exasperated]: Well, then why don't they just put a GOLDEN CAR on there? Or a TROPHY?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Fancy Things
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I like that Soren is able to talk in ITALIC CAPITALS. Does he read POKEY THE PENGUIN?
There was a semi-entertaining article recently, I think on Slate about how having all your buttons buttoned in a movie usually signifies someone mentally challenged (think Forrest Gump). There was some conjecturing about why, and one thought was that it usually means somebody else dressed you.
Ha! I totally just had a conversation about this last night with my boyfriend and a friend, who are both fancy-dressing men. Apparently people *did* used to button that top one, and then someone daringly left it unbuttoned like 100 years ago. So that button is a reminder of how we used to be even more uptight about men's clothes than we are now. Or something.
I agree that it would be way better if it were a golden car. I bet you could find golden car buttons if you were so inclined...
My first project as housewife was to replace all of Scott's top buttons with diamond-encrusted foie gras.
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