At 11:30, Pastor Rick takes the stage, dressed in a loose, short-sleeved button-down shirt and black cotton chinos. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla turned button-down technocrat with expertise in everything from energy to high finance, comfortably won Brazil's presidency Sunday in a contest that demonstrated voter loyalty to the man who handpicked her for the job, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. ❋ Juan Forero (2010)
Remember before the Microsoft era, back when the archetype of the computer engineer was not that of a laid-back, semi-cool, scruffy geek but that of a strait-laced, uptight, button-down IBM company man with a company haircut? ❋ Gene Weingarten (2011)
I think of my wardrobe full of button-down shirts, the shirts I wear to work. ❋ Lisa Genova (2011)
This extra effort to separate and keep the genders distinct was applied even to button-down shirts - men button to the right, women to the left. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She was a fairly serious woman, dressed in gray slacks and a sensible white button-down shirt, with a pair of bifocals hanging from a chain around her neck. ❋ Kristen Henderson (2011)
So, by all means, wear 501s with your Brooks Brothers oxford button-down shirt. ❋ Eric Felten (2011)
Charlie Wilson was a big customer with an unusual order: button-down collar, French cuffs, double pockets no button and epaulettes that he would, curiously, thread his suspenders through. ❋ Alexa Brazilian (2011)
Yet right down to his white sneakers, Edmondson is dressed in a jean jacket, jeans and button-down jean shirt. ❋ Fredrick Kunkle (2010)
Italian pinstripe designer suits, a button-down collar, and French cuffs do not a complete outfit make. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Others say that button-down shirts were created in New York, when their inventor (as yet anonymous) attached his collar to his shirt with buttons in a fit of annoyance at the oncoming wind. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even in the 1950's, a man would never have dreamed of going to work, factory or office, without wearing pants, a t-shirt, button-down shirt, vest, suit coat & tie. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Lou Amendola, chief merchandising officer for Brooks Brothers, touts the combination: "For generations nothing has conveyed the image of iconic American style more than a pair of Levi's jeans worn with a Brooks Brothers button-down shirt." ❋ Eric Felten (2011)
"Not even two seconds," says the 55-year-old Mr. Sch ä fer, who had switched out of a white shirt embroi dered with his family bakery's insignia into a less conspicuous checkered button-down for the stealth fact-finding mission. ❋ Vanessa Fuhrmans (2010)
Avery may prefer beat-up sneakers and baggy shorts to the usual professional apparel—he complains loudly when forced to wear a button-down shirt for an upscale Boston antiques show—but what he lacks in polish he makes up for in discernment. ❋ Jonathan Lopez (2011)
Some fashion experts claim that the button-down collar shirt was invented by an American shirt manufacturer who was inspired by an English polo match, in which players had their collars clipped down to avoid flapping in the wind. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Come August, they'll offer the company's first two ready-to-wear dress shirts: a button-down oxford in blue and white and a wide-spread collar with single button cuffs, available in 14 fabrics. ❋ Alexa Brazilian (2011)
Today they go to high-power meetings in just a button-down and a tie, and walk around in t-shirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
a button-down [mind] ❋ George IV (2010)
([Falls] over [a bit]) "Hey! That was my [sit down button]!" ❋ Peregrine XI (2021)
