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
From the top.
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.
Top
I do everything I can to never unbutton. However, if I have to I start at the top.
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
I put on my shirt from the top down.
But I put on my pants from the bottom up.
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.
It depends on the shirt and how I feel at the moment.
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.
The only correct answer is the middle out method.
Middle - up- then down, or middle-down-up?
Both. One hand, each direction.
Usually up then down.
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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.
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.
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?
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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.
