Quote Originally Posted by Don Patrick View Post
Beautiful jacket. Guess I know what I'm going to try and do with some of my Harris Tweed.

The details for this project conjures up memories of my past. Anyone know why buttons are even placed on sleeves?
I'm sure that this story is apocryphal, but my mom always told me that buttons were originally placed on the sleeves by Napoleon. The story goes that the Emperor was disgusted by the table manners of the officers with whom he often took meals. The particular thing that drove him up the wall was their tendency to wipe both their mouths and their runny noses on their sleeves. Now, as we all know, It's Good To Be The King...and even better to be the Emperor; so he decreed that buttons be sewn on the sleeves to deter the behaviour that he found so reprehensible.

...or so the story goes...


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