Dress right, dress left?

[geminigirl]

It's been a while since we had a silly LJ poll here. But I'm very curious after watching zedrikcayne get dressed this morning. Here's the story:

I was sitting on the bed, and he was threading his belt into his pants. He threaded it before he put his pants on, then put his pants on, realized he'd threaded his belt backwards and pulled it out to re-thread it. I asked him about that...how he threaded it backwards when he always puts the buckle on the same side as the button. He pointed out that he'd never thought about it that way, which led to a conversation about whether or not people were aware of these things, and whether or not people were consistent with them, and whatnot. So, I present you with today's silly LJ poll. It's better than most of my recent content.

[Poll #1044545]

Comments

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

I, er, only wear belts with my historic clothing and there are no loops or button to measure against. However, my belt buckle is always on the left and the tail of the belt comes from my right side. I have to unbuckle with both hands since the tail gets knotted around buckle.

[geminigirl]

Similarly, I think I only wear belts with dresses that don't have a button or loop to measure against, and so I skipped the poll.

[katishna.livejournal.com]

This was hard to answer. I thread my belt through the left side first, around the back to the right side so the buckle ends up hanging off the left side of my pants. But half my pants are women's, half men's, thanks to work, so "the side with the button" changes. So my poll answers are basically BS. :)

[geminigirl]

I figured that might happen to some people. It's an interesting tidbit.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I don't understand. The buckle can only go on the outside-- there aren't loops on the inside.

[vix.livejournal.com]

I giggled at this.

[geminigirl]

I'm not sure where you're getting the inside v. outside from. It's more of a left/right question. If your trousers have a button on them, and you're wearing a belt, do you prefer that when the belt is unfastened, the buckle of the belt is on the same side as the button, or do you prefer that the buckle is on the same side as the button hole?

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I was about to say "neither-- it goes in the middle", and then I thought about it very carefully and realised you mean the end of the belt with the buckle attached and not the actual buckle. Sorry for being slow.

I actually have no idea as to the answer, though.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

This is giving me a headache to think about. I don't do left/right very well. :/

[geminigirl]

It's okay to skip it or not know the answer. I don't wear belts with trousers, so I don't have an answer...I think perhaps that's why I'm curious about other people's answers.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

Q1: belts don't wear evenly, they curl in the direction of your gut, depending on whether, as Craig Ferguson says, "you wear your pants Texas style (hangs beer gut over pants) or Florida style (pulls pants up to armpits)". So, if you wear it the same direction all the time, eventually you've got a belt that's either wider at the top or the bottom. The solution to this is to wear it half the time threaded one way, and half the time threaded the other.

...unless'n you're wearing one of those rodeo winner belt buckles that has a 'right side up', anyway.

[geminigirl]

I didn't know that, but I can see why your solution works.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Some of my jeans have the button on the right side while others have it on the left!

Most of them seem to have buttons on the left side, though. (Left when wearing it), so I answered belt buckle on same as button.

[geminigirl]

So you have a preference for how the belt unbuckles that trumps the button vs. no button preference?

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

I think about this every time I wear a belt, but I don't care enough to make a decision and stick to it.

[geminigirl]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about it.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I think I learned which side to start threading from for Cub Scouts, and never bothered to vary from that. But since I haven't thought about in years, it took a while for me to equate which side I thread from with which side the buckle oges on, especially since the bucke actually ends up in the middle. But I didn't actually look (since I'm undressed at the moment) so I answered Q3 as if I already knew.

[minikin.livejournal.com]

You didn't have any spots for "I gave up wearing belts ages ago." ;)

[geminigirl]

Nope. Nor did I have any spot for "I have no need to wear a belt-if my pants slip off my waist, they stay up on my hips anyway.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I didn't have to look to know that I thread the belt starting with the left side, so the buckle is on the left side of the pants. I did look at some pants to see which side the button is on (the right), though I could probably have remembered that too if I'd tried harder. (ISTR once hearing that the button side is some strange historical gender-role thing.)

And it took me a few tries to visualize what was being asked, which might have been part of it.

[tyrsalvia.livejournal.com]

I always put the buckle on the left side, doesn't matter where the button of the pants is.

[fairion.livejournal.com]

The second question is wrong. It takes both hands to open the belt.

[zenmondo.livejournal.com]

My belt has a big superman \S/ for the buckle, so it only goes one way. Opposite of the button. Unless I want to wear it upside down, which now I may try just for kicks one day.

I goofed

[maxdwolf.livejournal.com]

I answered as if I were wearing pants with the snap type button and in fact I wear button fly jeans (never again), which changes the answer.

It bothered me to realize that I do actually loop the belt the same way every time. I'm going to have to start flipping a coin.