Folks who wear button up shirts: do you start buttoning from the top button or the bottom?
Folks who wear button up shirts: do you start buttoning from the top button or the bottom?
I start from the bottom. You can line up the buttons without needing to look in a mirror. I don't understand why anyone would start buttoning from the top. It's just less efficient. Explain your reasoning
The only correct answer is the middle out method.
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Middle - up- then down, or middle-down-up?
Both. One hand, each direction.
Usually up then down.
Thumbs into collar to orient, line up top button but do not button, button from the second-to-top button down to the bottom.
If I'm not wearing a tie, the process is complete, top button not buttoned.
If I am wearing a tie, this is when I put on and button my pants (if I'm not wearing a tie my shirt isn't tucked in and my pants went on before my shirt), flip up the collar, button the top button, tie my tie, and flip down the collar.
This is my reasoning also. I wear a button up shirt nearly every day. And always button starting from 2nd to the top and go down from there. Buttoning from the bottom up seems totally unthinkable.
Same. Many of my shirts have an extra button sewn on at the bottom, so lining up from there is pretty much impossible.
Top to bottom. As soon as I closed the first button, all other buttons are already directly at their hole so I just need to close them. Hardly ever get alignment issues, only when I'm drunk or stressed.
bottom up is just chaotic haha
Top down, all the way. There's often an extra button or two at the bottom that confuse me if I try to start there. Plus, once you get the top button hooked, the shirt isn't in danger of falling off.
I put on my shirt from the top down.
But I put on my pants from the bottom up.
Top to bottom, always. Whether putting one on or taking it off.
@Scio This is the way. Top to bottom, nothing else makes sense.
Yes especially for taking off - gotta get that neck button undone asap after being choked under a tie all day!
@FLOSSeveryday I start in the middle, not joking.
Christ, you're the kind of person who'd start a banana from the middle too, aren't you? AREN'T YOU?
Just kidding, but I actually am curious why you find that better, it seems like begging for an off by one buttoning.
I start in the middle, too. Not as weird as I thought, I guess!
I start upper middle, go up, then go down.
If I start from the bottom, I either accidentally start one button up on one side, or as I am going up I somehow skip a button. End result is that I have no holes left and one button left over at the top. So I start from the top and work down, and almost always - that works out for me.
This is what I do, and for this exact reason. If I start from the bottom I’d say it’s probably 70/30 that I get it right vs have one left over. Start from the op it more like 90/10
Top, it's easy enough to line up the collar and work your way down, without a mirror.
Top every time. I line up the neck, go one down by one. Never had an issue with this and helps me when I get the the bottom as I pull the surf down on each side
This is the way except I go down 2 from the neck. I have a fat neck and I don't wear a tie.
yeah i'm confused about what the advantages of bottom up are?
I start from the top down, get to almost the bottom only to notice it's uneven, and let out a heavy sigh as I have to undo all the buttons before resorting to matching the bottom hems and rebuttoning from the bottom up.
Yeah top to bottom makes more sense, but is more error prone
I wear button-ups every day, and every day I go top down. It's waaaay easier to line up the buttons up top than it is from the bottom.
Middle out. Just kidding bottom.
I'm not kidding when I say I start from the middle.
Sometimes I leave the top few buttons open (very broad chest, don't judge me), or if I have to button them up for something formal, especially if I'm wearing a tie, I leave that part to the last possible moment to not torture myself a moment longer than absolutely necessary.
This is not exactly true if I'm wearing a tailored shirt with cuff links. They fit perfectly either way so I button top down to dress up and look fancy as soon as possible.
Start with the top botton, stop, button the cuffs, then you are good to go.
From the top. I don't even have to look at a mirror. Just line up the collar and eyeball it. No particular reason why I do it that way, though. I guess it just felt more natural.
This is the answer. I know if I do it from the bottom up without a mirror, the buttoning will end up lopsided. So top down is the best for me.
Top, it's just easier to see what you are doing
Top down. It's my shirt - I'll button it how I want, DAD.
Top. I've done it about 5 days a week for the past 15 years. Definitely don't need a mirror at this point.
bottom. sometimes if I'm not awake enough it's a button or three off
i think starting from the middle would be the most inefficient though
Oh God. Oh the humanity! Why would you even put that picture in my head..... I'm so stressed out now visualising which direction I would go in after buttoning the middle button. Oh this is like psychological warfare....
Edit: But also - have an upvote, you deserve it.
I start from the second-top button and work down. I don't need a mirror either and for me it's easier to line up the correct button and hole. Been doing it that way since I was a kid, so it's muscle memory at this point.
Bottom, it helps give me a better perspective to get it lined up correctly.
Generally bottom up. Any other way and I am invariably off by a button or two. Sometimes I'm very tired and lazy I start from the middle like some kind of deranged person, but it never ends well.
I do everything I can to never unbutton. However, if I have to I start at the top.
I never considered starting from the bottom as a possibility. How did I never consider this?
because it's frankly insane. like people who put the milk in before the cereal. like, it's possible, but insane.
people who put the milk in before the cereal
How is that even legal!?
Fourth button from the top, down. Then the third button from the top. I leave the top two unbuttoned.
Top down, and I’ve never thought about why but one reason is I have a larger chest and broad shoulders so if it doesn’t fit there I don’t bother when trying them on for the first time and I guess just stick with it all time.
Always the top. Better question is, do you button all the way to the top? I always leave the top one or two undone.
Well of course - who does the top button unless they're wearing a tie?
Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. He
buttoned his vest from the bottom up; instead of from the top down, because
the bottom-to-top process took him only three seconds, while the top to
bottom took seven.-- Cheaper by the Dozen
It depends on the shirt and how I feel at the moment.
I leave all but the top 3 buttons buttoned and then pull it over my head.
I haven't in a long time, but if I model trying to, I start from the top. You have to really work at it to misalign the top button and the rest flows naturally with gravity aligning everything.
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Start with the top corner, pop or settle the collar (depends if I'm wearing a tie or not,) then just go down. Tuck in with a pair of folds pulled into the center.
by settling the collar first, that's how you align the buttons on the way down. it also helps the rest of the shirt sit on your shoulders so when you go tuck around, it's less likely to pull weird.
From the top.
I start from the bottom.
Well it is called button UP shirt. Bottom up?