Bracers

[Lancealot]

Okay if this has been covered elswhere I'm sorry. I know you can have buttons added to suit pants to attach bracers but does it look "right" when it's done?

 

[scotrace]

Can you elaborate? What do you mean "look right?"

 

[Hemingway Jones]

I sew them in myself all of the time and they look splendid.

 

[Lancealot]

Thank you sir.

 

[Rooster]

I put them in all of my pants, no belts for this boy.

 

[Lancealot]

Can you elaborate? What do you mean "look right?"

Do pants designed to be worn with a belt look too low for bracers.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Do pants designed to be worn with a belt look too low for bracers.

No, but you may have to wear your braces longer. The pants need to hang where they were designed to hang.

Here are some examples:

Here is a photo of me from earlier this year, in a Ralph Lauren suit where I am cheating a little and pulling up the pants a little higher than they were meant to be:


Here is a modern suit with them worn right, this photo also from earlier this year:


Here I am from last week in my MyCustomTailor suit (highwaisted) with the braces worn probably a little too low, but alright:

 

[Lancealot]

Thanks again.

 

[Orgetorix]

I sew them in myself all of the time and they look splendid.

Ditto.

 

[jgilbert]

Hemingway Jones pictures have me asking about button spacing. In one pic they appear wider than the other two. So if you are adding them can you just use the distance that say Brooks Brothers have in theirs?

 

[Tomasso]

Do pants designed to be worn with a belt look too low for bracers.

The test isn't whether the trousers were desighned to be worn with a belt but the rather the height of the rise or waist. Most modern trousers are cut with a moderate to low rise or waist which is not ,IMO, compatible with braces.

 

[Orgetorix]

Hemingway Jones pictures have me asking about button spacing. In one pic they appear wider than the other two. So if you are adding them can you just use the distance that say Brooks Brothers have in theirs?

There is no mandatory width between the buttons. The ones in Hem's second picture look a little too close together for my taste, but the others are fine. When I'm sewing them in, I put the first one directly over the main pleat and the second 4" away. Back ones go 2" on either side of the rear seam.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Sometimes the pants throw you. On one of those pairs the front is asymmetrical, and there was very little room on the right side for anything. Sometimes you just have to do the best you can.

Also, I agree, low-rise pants look terrible with braces.

 

[jgilbert]

Thanks was not sure if there was a standard for this.