Suspenders "let the pant float. They don't have to be tight, and it gives you more comfort," Gibson says. The best suspenders attach to buttons on the trousers, Rainwater says, though most pants ...

Metal clasps were invented in 1894 so that suspenders could be clipped on rather than buttoned, meaning that pants no longer had to come with buttons sewn in the waist, as they commonly did at the ...

Congratulations on calling them braces rather than suspenders ... a set of the six requisite buttons with each new pair. Switching braces from one pair of pants to another can be a nuisance.