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

    • HopeOfTheGunblade
      2•1 year ago

      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.

      • atypicaloddity
        1•1 year ago

        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.

          • WheresYourShoe
            1•1 year ago

            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.

          • Flaky_Fish69
            1•1 year ago

            pull on the collar first. square the points, and pull on the crease to get the shirt to sit right,

          • atypicaloddity
            1•1 year ago

            I’ve never really experienced misaligned buttons; it always felt like a movie trope, like toilet paper on your shoe.

            • HopeOfTheGunblade
              2•1 year ago

              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.