What are the facts you remember for no specific reason
What are the facts you remember for no specific reason
Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
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The buttons on suit jackets are a holdover from a time that buttons were new, and therefore fashionable. Well to do sorts had buttons all over their suits, even in places that would be considered silly these days.
When buttons were new and therefore fashionable? I feel like buttons predate suits by a wide margin.
Maybe it was for a new kind or material of button? This factoid is from long ago and is half remembered.
Similar fact - ties, as in neck or bow, are the only common men's clothing item that serve no practical purpose.