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.
I put on my shirt from the top down.
But I put on my pants from the bottom up.
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!
Top down. It’s my shirt - I’ll button it how I want, DAD.
Top to bottom, always. Whether putting one on or taking it off.
@Scio This is the way. Top to bottom, nothing else makes sense.
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.
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.
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
@FLOSSeveryday I start in the middle, not joking.
Top
I do everything I can to never unbutton. However, if I have to I start at the top.
Bottom > up always
Well it is called button UP shirt. 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…
