Why do snowmen have buttons?

[walter05]

I live in Savannah. We don't see snow except maybe once a decade or so.

My five year old asked a question I can't answer. I am hoping some of you from northern climates can.

Since snowmen are naked, why do they have buttons?

[walter05]

I live in Savannah. We don't see snow except maybe once a decade or so.

My five year old asked a question I can't answer. I am hoping some of you from northern climates can.

Since snowmen are naked, why do they have buttons?

[nacktman]

Not being that far north of you I really don't have an answer for you, but as Art Linkletter once said "Kids say the darnedest things!", and that includes really great questions.

Hope someone from above the snow-line can supply the answer, I'd like to know that one myself, now.

[Big-Thinker]

Hmmm, this has me thinking...

It does snow here in southern Ohio. I've built many snowmen myself, but I don't know, for certain, the answer to this question.

Maybe the more fundemental question should be "is the snowman to be perceived as being naked or as being clothed?". Maybe buttons are used to imply that he is actually clothed, although often no other evidence indicates a particular snowman is clothed. I think your child's view is more valid (that snowmen are naked... rather than clothed). Perhaps the only button a snowman should have is a belly button! Other anatomically-accurate details can be added (to a snowman or snowwoman), depending on how much time and boldness the snoman-builder has.

[walter05]

I am trying to bump this back up.

I really need a good answer for my five year old.

P.S. Big-Thinker, if you are right, then this snowman can't fight. The snow ball fights sound painfull.

[NudePete]

Snowmen have buttons because when they melt, as all must do eventually, the buttons will remain to remind us of them.

[walter05]

Last try to bump this up. If I don't get another answer, I will ask that the topic be closed.

Please help me answer my son.

[Ewan M]

Not sure either, but I have seen snowmen with hat, mittens and jacket

[alfredr]

If you wanted a serious answer, you shouldn't have put it in Fun and Humor.

But seriously, I think it is to represent that they are NOT naked, so they don't need the anatomically correct features.

Once in college, (This was back in the early 70's at a major midwestern university.) I and another guy who came along and helped, built a snowman close to eight feet tall with a penis probably about three feet tall on the quad. We couldn't agree on what the end of the penis should look like. I had only had one penis to study and I presume his experience was similar and I guess all penises are not alike? The snowman had an erection; I guess we should have put a towel over it? It never ocurred to me to build it any other way.

[Tampanude]

Decoration, maybe? Like earrings?

[NakedGary]

They all seem to have scarves and buttons.

This one can swear!

[FireProf]

To give the prudes the illusion that the Snowman is wearing clothes!

[nakedjohn]

Did you not know, a snowman wears a white coat. Otherwise he would be so cold, out there in the cold. So, every coat has buttons, as you know, and snowman's coat is white with black buttons.
Can not believe you did not see the coat on his body........

[smoothmike]

Im gonna make my first snowman this year as ill have my first winter in snow....

My smowman is gonna be a nudist

[walter05]

Pardon me if I am wrong, but is it true that snowmen are made of snow?

Is is true that snow is white?

Is it true that snowmen look mostly white?

Therefore, except a hat, or scarf, etc. most snowmen are nude.