Jacket sleeve buttons that don't button
Taken from my calender of "More of the Dumbest Things Ever Said or Done":
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Frederick the Great of Prussia had buttons sewn on the sleeves of his soliders' coats. Why? To stop them from wiping their noses on their sleeves -- and that's how men's jackets got sleeve buttons that don't button.
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There's no citation for this. Anyone know anything about the topic?
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29 December 2008, 02:40 PM
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