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2009
2009
“The buttoned-up look is often shorthand for retarded. (I mean this in the clinical sense.) Think Forrest Gump, Billy Bob Thornton’s Karl Childers in Sling Blade, or Sean Penn in I Am Sam. Slow but sincere, they wish to be perceived as serious, fully integrated citizens—and that top button is the key to what the Project Runway set might call their “image management.” It says: You may not realize it, but I’m clean and respectable. Penn’s Sam Dawson sports an open collar (sometimes rocking a shirt-on-shirt look) for most of the movie, but he buttons up for his job at Starbucks.”
Dall’articolo “Shirt-Buttoning Styles of the Weird and ‘Special’” di June Thomas
