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Folks who wear button up shirts: do you start buttoning from the top button or the bottom? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.