Let me just say that beltless button-laden suspender-hiked Amish-style plain dress trousers can be REAL confusing. Tried on my plain dress this evening (pants too long but my sister-in-law Nancy has offered to fix that). The pants are called broadfall drop-front pants. The have an almost-belt built in that has two buttons and a large flap buttoned from left to right to the top of the pants and then a couple of subsidiary buttons plus two buttons in the back for the suspenders and four in the front (two for each set of tabs). Let me tell you if you get the suspenders attached to the wrong buttons, you run out of ways to fasten your pants and the results can verge on humiliating. I've learned it's better to start with the suspenders already buttoned on and then you don't mix their buttons up with the broadfall drop-front. There are a lot more buttons on the front than on the back.
This plain dress can be a lot of work!
Mark
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