UNBUTTONED WAISTCOAT.
Why does the English waistcoat always have the lowest button unbuttoned? This conundrum, often posed, has again cropped up. The tailors on Saville row say that the custom dates from the time of King Edward VII., but they don't know who started it. Various suggestions now advanced are that it was' started by King Edward because he found it more comfortable, that it was started by John Drew, the American actor, and that it first appeared at Eton. where the youths, after a visit to the "tuck-shop," found it convenient to leave the lowest button loose.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 13
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98UNBUTTONED WAISTCOAT. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 13
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