I have a couple of blouses that I can wear with just a few very small
white buttons on them. I have to admit that I don't wear them very
often - but I can do it!

But yes, other types of button completely disgust me.

Barbara


--- In b_phobia@yahoogroups.com, "discocat82" <discocat82@...> wrote:
>
> I don't know why clothing with zippers isn't accepted as "formal." I
> do think it is easier for us ladies though, to do almost completely
> without buttons. I've never seen a men's dress shirt without them.
>
> Another thing that baffles me is why most of us here, myself
included,
> find certain buttons to be disgusting, others slightly gross, and
some
> are just fine. My best friend, who knows about my hatred of the
> things, sometimes looks at me funny when we are shopping and I pick
> something up to try on that has buttons on it.
>
> She'll say "I thought you hated buttons?" as if challenging me like
> I'm making the whole thing up!! Then I have to explain to her that
> only *certain* ones are gross to me, and I end up sounding crazy!
>