Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Is this necessary? Pt. 2

Can someone explain the "dual-fastener" system present on some varieties of men's pants?

The pants I'm wearing today feature both a metal hook & eye closure (primary) AND a button (secondary) positioned on a flap about two inches deeper and one inch lower than the hook & eye.

I'm not opposed to safety margins. Indeed, I heartily endorse the practice of parachutists carrying a secondary chute. But once you add in a belt or suspenders, you've got THREE different methods of holding up your pants? And let's not even consider the paranoids that are known to wear belts in combination with suspenders.

So I'm just thinking this is one fastener too many. Beyond that, it makes using only the zipper on quicker trips to the restroom problematic.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's overkill-for-profit at work. Give the customer more food on the plate, more car than he needs, even more health care than he needs. The restaurant owner, car dealer, drug dealer all profit, though the diner gets fat, the driver pollutes the environment, and we die early, allowing a quicker turnover. As the mercenary said, "There's money in murder."