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

  • atypicaloddity
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    11 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
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        11 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
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        1 year ago

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

      • atypicaloddity
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        11 year ago

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

        • HopeOfTheGunblade
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          21 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.