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SotiCoto
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 Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:35 am Post subject: Re: Zipper on your jacket or coat done up all the way? |
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I can go about with my zippered things undone to some extent, though having bits of my clothing waving around can get VERY annoying VERY quickly. It is usually only for hot weather that I do that anyway.
As for having the zipper all the way up, it depends on my mood. I'm more psychologically comfortable with the zipper done up to the top (I don't like my neck showing) but I'm more physically comfortable with it undone down to my collar-bone (so that revolting man-lump on my neck isn't being painfully constricted).
I tend to alternate depending on my mood and / or surrounding temperature.
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It's even part of a larger rule. You NEVER button or zip all the way up to the top unless you're wearing a tie. The top button on a dress shirt is called the "idiot button" because only idiots button it. In Basic Training, I made the mistake of buttoning the idiot button on my field jacket. I was asked, "Why the @#$# is your idiot button buttoned?!" The answer was, of course... "Because I'm an idiot, sir!"  |
I swear... except for my work shirt, I will tend to play bizarre games with buttoned shirts. Like sometimes I'll have them all buttoned up, other times ALL unbuttoned (including the cuffs of the sleeves). Sometimes I'll do up every other button... or leave one or two open at the top and bottom.
On at least one occasion the ONLY button I had done up was your so-called "idiot button".... just for the sake of being different. I went around with the rest of the shirt draping open, but clasped quite tightly around my neck.
Just the way I am, I guess. |
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Spokane_Girl
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| I just remembered that Fred Rogers didn't have his jacket zipped up all the way either. I always thought it was weird he did that. This was back when I was five when I watched the show everyday. |
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deadpanhead
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Venuseagle, i can't tell from your posts if you are concerned about some problem this causes or just curious about others' experiences. From the (veteran) mom's pov, i can say that it isn't worth much concern. If the anxiety is the problem i would just get him clothes with some other closers. If it is the way it looks, don't worry, that will take care of itself. I was the same way until nearly junior high and was cured by one comment from a peer. There is enough for a mom to be concerned with. You can let this one go. If you were just curious, well there ya go!  |
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SabbraCadabra
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Joined: Apr 22, 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Zipper on your jacket or coat done up all the way? |
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| venuseagle wrote: | | Anyone else relate to this? |
Yes.
Always have to have the zipper all the way up (or all the way down), same with buttons. Even winter coats that have zippers and buttons, I'll make sure I've got all the snaps before I go outside. Not really a comfort thing or pressure or anything, it's just a rule, like not letting my foods touch. There is no explaination for it, it's just wrong.
I knew about this rule with buttons (just ignored it ), but I didn't know about the zipper rule until my GF started teasing me about it at the store. She'd unzip it a ways, and I'd zip it back up and guard it. I get back at her by zipping her hoodie all the way up ;D
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tharn
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Location: Iowa
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Zipper on your jacket or coat done up all the way? |
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| SabbraCadabra wrote: | | venuseagle wrote: | | Anyone else relate to this? |
Yes.
Always have to have the zipper all the way up (or all the way down), same with buttons. Even winter coats that have zippers and buttons, I'll make sure I've got all the snaps before I go outside. Not really a comfort thing or pressure or anything, it's just a rule, like not letting my foods touch. There is no explaination for it, it's just wrong.
I knew about this rule with buttons (just ignored it ), but I didn't know about the zipper rule until my GF started teasing me about it at the store. She'd unzip it a ways, and I'd zip it back up and guard it. I get back at her by zipping her hoodie all the way up ;D |
Light Jacket / Breezy or Sunny - Fully unzipped.
Light Jacket / Cool or Wet - Fully Zipped.
Light Jacket / Cool or Breezy- Light scarf required, long end exposed, short end tucked into front of jacket neck.
Light Jacket / Wet or Breezy - Hands preferably in pockets.
Long sleeve shirt - One button down, sleeves cleanly rolled up at EXACTLY 3 intervals of the height of the cuff
... etc. etc.
See, there are RULES for these things. There is always a Right Answer. And yet at the same time, I have no problem putting off a haircut for MONTHS, looking like Shaggy from Scooby-Do, as long as my sideburns are trimmed level with the base of my nose. Why don't I make ANY SENSE  
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SabbraCadabra
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: Zipper on your jacket or coat done up all the way? |
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| tharn wrote: | | Hands preferably in pockets. |
My hands are almost always in pockets.
When I wear a jacket and realize it's much too warm for it, I'll take it off and tie it around my waist, Ted "Theodore" Logan style \m/
I have quite a few habits that stem from that movie ¬_¬
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Lunar-Lander
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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It's important to my comfort to be able to tolerate having my zipper undone if the weather deems necessary. Sometimes having a light jacket is essential on a coolish day but having it zipped to the top will cause me to get too warm.
It would probably be beneficial to your son to get him used to being flexible regarding his zipper. In the long run he will need to accept this for his own comfort.
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