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
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.
@FLOSSeveryday I start in the middle, not joking.
I start upper middle, go up, then go down.
I start in the middle, too. Not as weird as I thought, I guess!
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?
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.
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.
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 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
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
yeah i’m confused about what the advantages of bottom up are?
This is the way except I go down 2 from the neck. I have a fat neck and I don’t wear a tie.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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, it’s easy enough to line up the collar and work your way down, without a mirror.
Top down. It’s my shirt - I’ll button it how I want, DAD.
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!?
Middle out. Just kidding bottom.
Unironically middle out. The middle buttons almost never get undone.
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.
Well it is called button UP shirt. Bottom up?
