# Jeans and button-down shirt: Dorky? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928 "2007-04-20T13:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/21 "2007-04-20T16:09:25Z")
[QUOTE=Dazzling White Diamonds] I am currently wearing a button-down long-sleeved shirt that is tailored for a busty woman (which I am!) and a pair of snug fitting, slightly flared jeans. The shirt is untucked and the top and bottom buttons are undone. I’ve been told that it is an extremely flattering look for me (actually, I was told I looked damned HOT). [/QUOTE] Cite? Pics? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/22 "2007-04-20T16:20:28Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] What shoes, then? [/QUOTE] [Topsiders](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://slimages.macys.com/is/image/MCY/products/5/optimized/217245_fpx.tif%3Fbgc%3D255,255,255%26wid%3D273%26qlt%3D90,0%26layer%3Dcomp%26op_sharpen%3D0%26resMode%3Dbicub%26op_usm%3D0.7,1.0,0.5,0%26fmt%3Djpeg&imgrefurl=http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc%3FID%3D154654%26CategoryID%3D15683&h=333&w=273&sz=13&hl=en&start=17&tbnid=NZoTuB75EKAreM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dboat%2Bshoes%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den). The rest: blue button-down shirt, slightly-faded but good-fitting jeans and a corderoy three-button sportcoat. I’ve dressed like this (_extremely_ preppy) since I was a teenager - I consider it _camouflage_. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/23 "2007-04-20T16:29:42Z")
You can add me to the girls that find it damn sexy. And I don’t always need it tucked in, either. Both must be clean and neat though. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/24 "2007-04-20T16:32:57Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] You can add me to the girls that find it damn sexy. And I don’t always need it tucked in, either. Both must be clean and neat though. [/QUOTE] I’m tucket. I’ve got one long-sleeved shirt that my SIL bought me that is cut specifically to wear untucked. And yes - nice an neat, fresh from the dry cleaners. I feel better about this now. My shrew-like coworker can kiss my ass. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Capa84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Capa84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capa84)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/25 "2007-04-20T16:33:05Z")
[QUOTE=Plynck] Is it hard to find jeans with a button fly? At least the message is obvious, though. [/QUOTE] no no, the top two buttons of the shirt must be undone,lol ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/26 "2007-04-20T16:37:47Z")
I hear button flys are a PITA, so I assume when a man is wearing a button fly he’s got just one thing in mind. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/27 "2007-04-20T16:38:08Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Casual Friday? [/QUOTE] It’s suppossed to be but damn if many of us aren’t pushing it from Monday on. I work hard and am over 40, which pretty much means if someone doesn’t like it I couldn’t give much less of a shit. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/28 "2007-04-20T16:46:44Z")
BTW, **Winston** , I also find button-down shirts and jeans to be sexy. Long-sleeved, short-sleeved, tucked or untucked - doesn’t matter. Shirt must be nice, clean and relatively wrinkle-free. Jeans must be clean, too! Woo. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/29 "2007-04-20T16:56:35Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] It’s suppossed to be but damn if many of us aren’t pushing it from Monday on. I work hard and am over 40, which pretty much means if someone doesn’t like it I couldn’t give much less of a shit. [/QUOTE] My practice is to dress casually monday through thursday, and dress “up” a little on fridays. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/30 "2007-04-20T16:59:36Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Hmm? Seems ok to me, but who am I to judge? [/QUOTE] It depends on what circles you travel in. Preppy as a mass-market style came and went a long time ago. Do you have a house on Martha’s Vineyard? A trust fund? A son at Andover? Then by all means, continue to dress as you’ve always dressed … and your father dressed … and his father dressed. However, the rest of the world has moved on. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/31 "2007-04-20T17:05:07Z")
[QUOTE=Capa84] When it’s warm enough outside to start wearing more club appropriate short sleeve shirts, then the fucky dress pants can come back out of the closet. [/QUOTE] Freudian slip of the week! ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/32 "2007-04-20T17:08:06Z")
Dorky? How about nearly universal? Most of the men I know where this outfit pretty frequently, varying it occasionally with khaki pants. Heck, if I haven’t done laundry recently enough, I raid Himself’s shirt rack and wear that outfit myself. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/33 "2007-04-20T17:11:56Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] It depends on what circles you travel in. Preppy as a mass-market style came and went a long time ago. Do you have a house on Martha’s Vineyard? A trust fund? A son at Andover? Then by all means, continue to dress as you’ve always dressed … and your father dressed … and his father dressed. However, the rest of the world has moved on. [/QUOTE] Well, I live in [Marblehead, Massachusetts](http://www.marblehead.org/) (which is like the Vineyard, but without the riff raff). ---
**Author:** ![Capa84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Capa84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capa84)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/34 "2007-04-21T01:14:37Z")
Well, are you wanting the “45 year old sailboat owner” look, or the “late 20s to early 30s pretty boy/metrosexual/urban” look? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/35 "2007-04-21T01:18:52Z")
Until my company was bought out recently, jeans and a button-down shirt was my 365 days a year wear. Which saved me some money - everyone else had to go buy khakis and shirts; I only had to buy khakis. Dorky? Perhaps, I dunno. Do I care? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/36 "2007-04-21T02:33:22Z")
Definitely not my style. It makes me think of either Garth Brooks or Jerry Seinfeld, and I prefer to emulate neither. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/37 "2007-04-21T04:13:16Z")
Huh. That’s exactly what I’m wearing now. I _am_ a huge dork, for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928/38 "2007-04-21T11:34:54Z")
Glad to see from so many dopers that this isn’t dorky. I was gonna guess that it is indeed dorky - because of course I wear that look regularly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeans-and-button-down-shirt-dorky/400928.md?page=1)