Like a spare tire -[ HMM ]-

A replacement button found on the inside a polo shirt, conveniently attached to the laundering directions tag.

 

To a fashion perfectionist, this is just as valuable as an automobile’s spare tire in the event a button breaks or somehow goes missing. Like a spare tire, however, it’s no good if you either don’t know how to install one (that is, in this case, to sew) or can’t arrange for someone to do it for you (family, friends, or a professional). Also, like spare tires, not all buttoned clothing comes with courtesy spare buttons.

 

For the record, depending on where the button is, the garment could still be worn without that spare button, unlike a car with a flat tire, one exception to my spare tire metaphor [compact spares being the other]. A missing button may not pass the perfectionist test, though.

 

Interestingly, some people, including, as I discovered, one legendary, long-departed executive in the personal computing industry, suffer(ed) from a fear of buttons.

Done