How is a shirt that fastens with buttons rather than a zipper for wearing as outerwear?
There are readers looking for outerwear to throw on when it is chilly who see that it fastens with buttons and worry about the wind. Before buying, one wants to gauge to what extent the garment will block it.
The brand has noted in advance that because it fastens with buttons rather than being a zip-up, wind can enter through the gaps between buttonholes.
Zippers close along a line, while buttons close at points. When a zipper is pulled up to the end, the front adheres in a single line, leaving almost no gaps, but with buttons, the spaces between the fastened points remain slightly separated. This shirt falls under the latter, so wind can enter between the buttonholes[1].
Therefore, its use differs slightly. Rather than a windproof outer layer for days when you face the wind head-on, it is used more like an overshirt where you adjust the fastening as you move between indoors and outdoors. You can divide the opening and closing sections by unbuttoning just the top buttons to keep the neck open or unbuttoning the bottom to make walking more comfortable, and on days when the wind bothers you, adding a thin layer underneath makes the air coming through the gaps feel far less noticeable.
hmmm, since they brought out a characteristic that could read as a weakness before purchase, it allows you to calculate in advance what kind of weather to wear this garment in.
Whether there is a lining or a separate structure inside the closure that blocks the wind has not yet been confirmed.