Taking Sides: Zippers or Button-Flys on jeans.

Now did she tell you this or not?

The reason is that if you go out and drink a great deal, as I often do, it becomes harder and harder to do up the buttons as the evening wears on. Not only do I feel a prat, hunched against the wall in the gents working my elbow up and down while several other blokes come and go, but on occasions I have managed to do the buttons up wrong, not realising until I'm back strutting in front of the women that a small penile hummock has resulted in my crotch. So, apart from the occasional pube tug, zips are preferable, at least for men. I daresay that women probably prefer buttons, on the whole.

http://www.svtoday.com/svt/gifs/mary.jpg

at least with button-flys you know your kennywood's not open

(obscure pittsburgh reference)

Button fly is the best, you can just rip them open! This is very nice when the bathroom use is URGENT. However, this may be the most revolting phrase I have ever heard:

Jim Morrisonesque "these buttons are holding back the beast!" sorta vibe.

*womits sore*

Button fly FTW.

Button flies are ideal for jeans and trousers. Some designers even put them into slacks and suit pants (eg, Junya Watanabe, Paul Smith, APC).

I have some very beloved brown BCBG trousers with a button fly. I have another pair of brown trousers with a snap fly. So rad!

hi-five Abbot!

I hate button flies, such a pain in the arse.

i forget to zip a lot now because i'm used to just fastening buttons :(

lol perhaps arse not appropriate choice of words xpost to me

I like a drink more than the next man, and I've never got my nuts stuck in a zip.

lol external genitalia

i prefer buttons, mainly because i'm much less likely to leave buttons undone cf. i dress in a different order when wearing button-fly keks.

buttons are best because when youre mining for gold the silt and sand the silt and sand can jam a zipper

lol all genitals

Button fly presents a more appealing profile on a man.

It's gotta be a zip. Good old YKK.

I don't mind either but I think overall buttons are better once you're not 10 years old.

If buttons come undone they don't look as gaping as an undone zip.

zipper flys that undo themselves when walking around = ultimate dud

I will take a zipper any day. It allows me to close up my pants using one motion, as opposed to like three or four separate steps.

Also, now that I've seen this thread, the zipper allows me to not be reminded of Alex in NYC admiring his "beast"

All my jeans are button fly, but a zipper is way easier. So when I'm wearing slacks and I go to have a wee, I'm always pleasantly surprised to find a convenient zipper. "Hey, this will be a breeze!" Trouble is, zippers break and snag and don't last, unless you get some serious industrial-grade metal shit. Which still comes standard on Levi's, iirc.

I can't think of a single zipper failure I've ever encountered! Are you guys doing weird things to them, or do I just not keep clothes long enough?

Are you guys doing weird things to them

please don't answer that, kenan

I can't think of a single zipper failure I've ever encountered!

apparently you're not holding back a BEAST

but seriously, really? you've never had a cheap plastic zipper get bent and snagged and broken? It happens, I swear to you it does.

I've never had a cheap plastic zipper on a pair of pants, is the thing

Buttons

I mean, I've had zippers go wonky on old sweatshirts and jackets and such, and I've had them break all to hell on things like sports bags (because I think we all know I'm the kind of guy who interacts with sports bags often and seriously), but the only zipper issues I've experienced with trousers are (a) sometimes working their way open for no apparent reason, and (b) getting a little stuck toward the bottom -- each of these has happened to approximately 1 in 100 pairs of pants I've owned, and both probably had more to do with pants that didn't fit right and were being put in weird situations

"weird situations"

I spent a half hour with this zipper before realizing it goes up and down and not right to left
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