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As for the buttoning of the top button only, that was a common practice at one time.
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Perhaps many of these gents were dining too sumptuously and their coats would not encircle their ample girth!!
Your picture immediately reminded me of the picture of the Widgeon Duck Club's J.A. Hannah published in Larry Baer's Parker books --
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