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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Buttons are a fad. Zippers are where it's at.
But seriously, buttons are going the way of the Dodo. You could use a stylus to change the page and not have to worry about dirty hands.
I've read at the table when I was young and I managed it. I don't recall complaining about turning pages.
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When I was in the Navy, they tried to phase out 13 Button blues for ones with a Zipper (I hated the zipper ones).
'But it IS Tradition' (and this was from some just a year out of Boot camp
)
A friend of my dad, gave me a pair of WWII era 13 Button Whites, which I wore to Inspection. The Division Officer 'knew' something was
wrong with my uniform, he just could not figure what. (They were technically still
legal uniform)