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A few years ago, we published a guest post on suit buttons,<\/a> and one of the best things I got out of the comments it received was a handy way to remember the right way to button a three-button suit jacket. It’s called the “sometimes, always, never” button rule. Starting with the top button and working your way down: it’s sometimes<\/em><\/strong> appropriate to have the top button buttoned along with the middle one (a stylistic decision \u2014 if the lapel is flat, it can look good to button it; if the lapel rolls over and hides the top button, only button the middle one); it’s always<\/strong><\/em> appropriate to have the middle button buttoned (the middle button pulls the jacket together at your natural waist and lets the bottom naturally flare out around your hips); and you should never<\/strong><\/em> button the last button (doing so messes up the intended tailoring and flare offered by the middle button). Sometimes, always, never.<\/strong><\/em> Easy.<\/p>\n Like this illustrated guide? Then you\u2019re going to love our book The Illustrated Art of Manliness<\/em><\/a>! Pick up a copy on Amazon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we\u2019ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in May 2013. A few years ago, we published a guest post on suit buttons, and one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42301,6,227],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clothing","category-featured","category-style"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Three-Button-Rule-UPDATE-2-500x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Three-Button-Rule-UPDATE-2-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Three-Button-Rule-UPDATE-2-320x214.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33255"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171792,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255\/revisions\/171792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33255"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}