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 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!
I put on my shirt from the top down.
But I put on my pants from the bottom up.
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
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…
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.
@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.
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.
And you don’t end up misaligned? Is the muscle memory just that good?
pull on the collar first. square the points, and pull on the crease to get the shirt to sit right,
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.
I’ve never really experienced misaligned buttons; it always felt like a movie trope, like toilet paper on your shoe.
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.
I start in the middle, too. Not as weird as I thought, I guess!
I start upper middle, go up, then go down.
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
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.
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.
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.
