This weekend I bought a very nice Ben Sherman blouse. I didn’t even know he made blouses for women. It fits me like it was made for me.
It’s kind of hard to find blouses that can button over my tits and fit closely to my tummy and waist. I usually have to sacrifice one for the other. If it fits closely to my tummy and waist, odds are, I can’t button it properly over the girls and I have to wear a tank under it. If I can button it over the girls, it’s too loose around my tummy and waist.
Well, this blouse was a gift from the curvy gods, lemme tell ya. It is quite a fit. I love it. No gaps where it buttons over my boobies. A really nifty, but subtle print. Apparently, other people love it, too. I got quite a few double-takes this morning at the train station. No one was looking at my face, however.
I glanced down just to make sure I hadn’t spilled something down the front of my shirt when, hello! Wow, I looked like something out of an after-hours Cinemax flick. I quickly and as cooly as possible given the situation buttoned my shirt (no small feat as I was wearing a messenger back across my chest) and moved on. Not five minutes later, I was flashing the world again.
The problem is the buttons on this shirt are very tiny and have rounded edges. The specific button causing problems is right at ground zero, so to speak. I’ve rebuttoned it a dozen times this morning, easily. My schedule doesn’t permit me to go buy another blouse until 2:30 this afternoon.
I’ve got quite a few meetings until I get a break. I’m going to assume a lot of things will be going my way until then.
See if you can find a small safety pin and pin that sucker on the inside for a quick fix. Then when you get home take a needle and thread and sew the buttonhole together a couple of stitches at the end to tighten up the buttonhole. Good luck!
You can try to put a couple invisible stitches on the inside to hold it together. That is, if you can get it over your head without unbuttoning it. I’ve done that before. I wish the curvy gods made more shirts
Here’s my shirt, sort of. My patern’s a bit different and the seems aren’t quite the same.
What’s funny is, I actually took a picture of my, uh, exposed self with my mobile phone’s camera. I was trying to determine whether being unbottoned was as bad as I thought it was.
The stitching would loosen up with time though wouldn’t it? How about a tiny bit of that translucent tape that J Lo used on her infamous green dress to tape the fabric together at ground zero? That is, if the tape won’t damage/stain the fabric. I wonder if there are any kind of pins or brooches that you could use. It seems to me that long ago I saw some kind of gadget that fit over buttons and was meant to be an ornament like a brooch. (Not sure if that would be attractive at all though.) I’ve seen other gizmos that were used as well, I don’t recall if they were meant to keep things buttoned or not. They were similar to cufflinks, but were meant to be used down the front of the shirt. Hmmm, let me see what I can dig up.
Yeah, I saw gadgets like this, but not Gothic in style. That would prevent the button coming undone at least, if the placement isn’t like a putting a target ring on your cleavage that is. This page has some men’s button clips and shows what the back is like. I did a search both for button covers, and button clips. The button cover search brought up embroidery sites the most, but also brought up the Gothic covers. A search for clip on button covers got me this site, which offers sets, so it would be less conspicuous. Here is a search page on Shopping.com with all kinds of button covers. This site offers gold button covers. I think button covers would be your best answer, because it’s a more “permanent” fix. At least, if they covers won’t spoil the simple elegance of the garment. (They come in all styles, you just have to find the one that will work which will involve persistance.) Good luck, I hope you find some way to fix such an embarassing problem. Failing that, maybe a light but modest cami under the shirt would be in order, so if it does come undone, at least it’s just a cami showing?
The stitching won’t come out, but IME the action of buttoning and unbuttoning it will loosen it up enough that it could come unbuttoned while being worn. Some buttons are just that “slippery” that even having enough slack to fasten them will let them come undone. That may not be the case with the blouse in question of course. Stitching it up is worth a try, but so is wearing a cami under it or using button covers for the shirt.
I believe every woman faces this problem some time, regardless of size.
I have always felt the solution was a simple and obvious one.
That all important key buttonhole should be horizontal (like your jeans) instead of vertical, standard for shirts. If the buttonhole went from side to side instead of up and down it would not open near as easily. In fact, any stress would cause it to pull into the corner and be all but unable to come undone.
(Eric and Lyle wouldn’t like to be refered to as “ladies”, by the way.
Because they are a couple of killers !)
(They come in all styles, you just have to find the one that will work which will involve persistance.) Good luck, I hope you find some way to fix such an embarassing problem. Failing that, maybe a light but modest cami under the shirt would be in order, so if it does come undone, at least it’s just a cami showing?