Airport Security - Fishtail Trousers Rear Buckle

[Vintaged]

I would like to wear my SJC jacket and high waisted trousers when I fly abroad.

I realise that sadly I‘ll have to forgo wearing button braces with the trousers but I am also concerned that as the trousers have a rear buckle this will set off security alarms at airport security.

Am I being too concerned and should I ignore this in the interests of looking smart on my travels?

 

[GHT]

Wear whatever you want, it wouldn't even cross my mind that my clothing could trigger a security alarm. My wife and I have flown back and forth across the pond on numerous occasions and only once did we cause some concern. My preference for coffee is for a blend known as peaberry, I've never been able to find it in the US, so one year my wife smuggled a two pound bag in our luggage, she got caught. US customs are extremely strict about food imports, but one of the officers opened the coffee, inhaled the aroma and declared: "Man, that is real good coffee." We were permitted to keep it. I love America.

 

[Vintaged]

Thanks

Wear whatever you want, it wouldn't even cross my mind that my clothing could trigger a security alarm. My wife and I have flown back and forth across the pond on numerous occasions and only once did we cause some concern. My preference for coffee is for a blend known as peaberry, I've never been able to find it in the US, so one year my wife smuggled a two pound bag in our luggage, she got caught. US customs are extremely strict about food imports, but one of the officers opened the coffee, inhaled the aroma and declared: "Man, that is real good coffee." We were permitted to keep it. I love America.

Thanks, it’s a confidence thing on my part to wear vintage clothes daily!

But, I’m getting there, especially as fish tailed trousers with braces are so comfortable !

 

[Edward]

I've travelled in Darcy trousers that had a rear buckle. In most airports, the button braces are fine - I've only once been required to remove them, which was much more of a faff than a belt. (The real trick, fwiw, I found with the belt is to have one you can pop the studs open on and remove just the buckle, a lot less hassle. As a rule if anything does buzz, they normally wave a wand round and you're good to go. The button braces have been less hassle for me usually than dealing with a belt, or dungarees. I've also considered a one-piece, cotton tanker suit before now for convenience, but button braces have probably been the least hassle option I've tried so far. I suspect - although arguably marginally easier to don / remove, clip on braces would if anything be more likely to set off the ringer.

 

[Harp]

Wear whatever you want, it wouldn't even cross my mind that my clothing could trigger a security alarm. My wife and I have flown back and forth across the pond on numerous occasions and only once did we cause some concern. My preference for coffee is for a blend known as peaberry, I've never been able to find it in the US....

I favor Peruvian; Costa Rican; and coffee harvested in Jallisco, Mexico. Ask around town for available
sample bags and enjoy. Please explain peaberry. Sounds like a Campbell's soup.
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Bye-the-bye, I once minded my kid sister's boys, confiscated a Playboy off one of my nephews.
The following week while going through airport security I spied a familiar face being escorted by a female
uniformed airline employee to the checkpoint. The Playmate of The Year featured in my nephew's
issue. She got bag searched, the magazine discovered inside her carryon, right next to yours truly
undergoing the same. The Playmate explained who she was and why the magazine. I told her my
nephew said hello, she smiled and told me to pass greeting back. Later, told the kid the whole story.
A real chicken choker et nullus advocatus diabelli Confession afterwards no doubt.

 

[Vintaged]

I've travelled in Darcy trousers that had a rear buckle. In most airports, the button braces are fine - I've only once been required to remove them, which was much more of a faff than a belt. (The real trick, fwiw, I found with the belt is to have one you can pop the studs open on and remove just the buckle, a lot less hassle. As a rule if anything does buzz, they normally wave a wand round and you're good to go. The button braces have been less hassle for me usually than dealing with a belt, or dungarees. I've also considered a one-piece, cotton tanker suit before now for convenience, but button braces have probably been the least hassle option I've tried so far. I suspect - although arguably marginally easier to don / remove, clip on braces would if anything be more likely to set off the ringer.

Thanks for the advice, it gives me more confidence to wear button braces the next time I fly.

I had better wear a pair that’s easy to undo though.

 

[GHT]

I favor Peruvian; Costa Rican; and coffee harvested in Jallisco, Mexico. Ask around town for available
sample bags and enjoy. Please explain peaberry. Sounds like a Campbell's soup.

Aw come on, you are the google expert. Coffee beans come from coffee cherries, the bright red fruits of the coffee tree. In each coffee cherry, there is an outer skin – which is how we make cascara – over a layer of pulp, and then typically two seeds covered in a thin layer of parchment.
Here’s a video of a coffee cherry to give you a good visual.

So what is a peaberry coffee bean? It’s a natural mutation in which a single bean grows on its own inside the coffee cherry, rather than with a twin. They lack the familiar flat side that normal beans have, and they are smaller than a standard bean. They are considered some of the best coffee’s in the world.

Specific regions like Brazil, Tanzania, Kenya, and Kona tend to produce more peaberry since they have the infrastructure in place to find and separate the peaberries from the normal beans. My particular favourite is Kenyan.

 

[Harp]

I drove a Jaguar for years but never looked under the hood.
And I prefer Central American ground bean imported by my local favorite in town.

 

[GHT]

I drove a Jaguar for years but never looked under the hood.
Hood? Allow me to lift the bonnet.

 

[Harp]

^ I believe that vehicle is a MG and a six-cylinder engine probable 15 miles per gallon.

My '94 Jaguar XJS convertible sported an India sixer for 15 miles a gallon.
And the plate read Coventry, England manufacture.

...and I fibbed, I did change the oil, which engine required #4 Quaker State Oil;
and my cat's milk bought at a 'hood British Petroleum station. Always Silver unleaded.
And that pasturized milk cost beaucoup bucks. I would insert pump handle, eye pump
price meter and throw myself across the hood and cry.

 

[3PcSuit]

I would like to wear my SJC jacket and high waisted trousers when I fly abroad.

I realise that sadly I‘ll have to forgo wearing button braces with the trousers but I am also concerned that as the trousers have a rear buckle this will set off security alarms at airport security.

Am I being too concerned and should I ignore this in the interests of looking smart on my travels?

Sorry I'm late to the punch here, but have been off for ages:
I can confirm that the two metal clips on the sides of morning dress pants set off metal detectors.
You'll doubtless have a similar problem in an airport.
Aren't there suspenders that don't have any metal in them? I'd recommend getting a pair of those. . .

 

[M Hatman]

Aw come on, you are the google expert. Coffee beans come from coffee cherries, the bright red fruits of the coffee tree. In each coffee cherry, there is an outer skin – which is how we make cascara – over a layer of pulp, and then typically two seeds covered in a thin layer of parchment.
Here’s a video of a coffee cherry to give you a good visual.

So what is a peaberry coffee bean? It’s a natural mutation in which a single bean grows on its own inside the coffee cherry, rather than with a twin. They lack the familiar flat side that normal beans have, and they are smaller than a standard bean. They are considered some of the best coffee’s in the world.

Specific regions like Brazil, Tanzania, Kenya, and Kona tend to produce more peaberry since they have the infrastructure in place to find and separate the peaberries from the normal beans. My particular favourite is Kenyan.

I get the elusive peaberry coffee (Tanzanian) from one roaster an hour away....but for this coffee, worth the drive!! They usually always have some roasted and ready to go.....