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

  • agamemnonymous
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    121 year ago

    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.

    • vorpal-blade
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      51 year ago

      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.

      • ivanvector
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        11 year ago

        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.

  • Domriso
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    71 year ago

    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.

  • FlowVoid
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    71 year ago

    I put on my shirt from the top down.

    But I put on my pants from the bottom up.

  • asjmcguire
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    71 year ago

    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.

    • amnesiacrobat
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      31 year ago

      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

      • asjmcguire
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        11 year ago

        Terrified to see the number of people who just start in the middle! If I did that - I would get it wrong 100% of the time…

  • Scio
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    71 year ago

    Top to bottom, always. Whether putting one on or taking it off.

    • HopeOfTheGunblade
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      21 year ago

      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.

      • atypicaloddity
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        11 year ago

        Not op, but I also start from the middle. By which I mean I go top down, but leave the top few buttons loose and then decide how high I want to button it. The muscle memory is the same for whether I’m wearing a tie or not.

          • atypicaloddity
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            11 year ago

            I’ve never really experienced misaligned buttons; it always felt like a movie trope, like toilet paper on your shoe.

            • HopeOfTheGunblade
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              21 year ago

              I have, in my life, experienced both. You had better appreciate me taking more than one for the team to maintain the averages in the face of your dereliction of embarrassment.

          • Flaky_Fish69
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            1 year ago

            pull on the collar first. square the points, and pull on the crease to get the shirt to sit right,

          • WheresYourShoe
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            11 year ago

            So, my button shirts are flannel, but I start in the middle, too. If you get the shoulders on square and stand up straight, the buttons line up automatically. I never have errors when I button this way.

  • Lemonstrudel
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    61 year ago

    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.

  • Shortcake
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    61 year ago

    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

    • R. J. Gumby
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      1 year ago

      This is the way except I go down 2 from the neck. I have a fat neck and I don’t wear a tie.

  • bryanuc
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    61 year ago

    Top, it’s easy enough to line up the collar and work your way down, without a mirror.

  • jclinares
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    51 year ago

    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.

    • glennglog22
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      31 year ago

      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.

    • @dannoffs
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      11 year ago

      Unironically middle out. The middle buttons almost never get undone.

    • CynAq
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • Hyacathusarullistad
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    51 year ago

    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.