The Disadvantages of a Button Down Fly

The most common machine for pant closing is the zipper. It is convenient and efficient. The average time for a zipper fly is under a second. From then on it stays closed until the next time you go to the bathroom, take them off, flash someone, etc. While it seems like no jean manufacturer in their right mind would use any device besides the zipper, everyday thousands of button flied jeans are produced everyday. There is a cult following for button flies and while these followers have a right to buy their jeans with buttons, all they do is create an inconvenience for the many shoppers who accidentally buy these jeans. These buyers then have to deal with months of inconvenience from their button fly jeans. First of all the time of closing their pants now lengthens by three seconds. It takes four seconds to button up a pair of pants. It takes one to zipper them. Along with the time of closing, the button fly also comes with the inconvenience that they may become unbuttoned throughout the day. There is no security of closure like the zipper. With buttons, at any point they could open up and expose ones underwear. With the zipper this is not a problem.