This is one a lot of men get wrong. This is for when you are standing. Seated, you should always have all buttons undone.
So, when standing:
Two button suit: Top button always, bottom button never.
Three button suit: Top button sometimes (my preference is undone), middle button always, bottom button never.
Four button suit: Throw it out. Now.
There’s a good reason to do this and that’s because suit manufacturers specifically design their clothes with this in mind. When I worked in this industry, I spent some time with a maker of tailored suits and he showed me just how big the difference is on a well-tailored suit. If you bottom the bottom button on an expensive suit, you’ll see that ripples emerge around the hip area on either side. The button tugs at the fabric and causes the suit to lose its form.
If you bottom the button one and nothing changes, you either have a crappy suit or one that doesn’t fit. Either way, that’s a big problem.
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