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@kbin.social
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    1 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.

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      1 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.

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        1 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.

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    1 year ago

    The top which is why I always have to redo from the bottom because by the time I get to the last button I realize I messed up!

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    1 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.

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    1 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.

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    1 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.

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      1 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

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        1 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…