Folks who wear button up shirts: do you start buttoning from the top button or the bottom?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
From the top. I don't even have to look at a mirror. Just line up the collar and eyeball it. No particular reason why I do it that way, though. I guess it just felt more natural.
I'm not kidding when I say I start from the middle.
Sometimes I leave the top few buttons open (very broad chest, don't judge me), or if I have to button them up for something formal, especially if I'm wearing a tie, I leave that part to the last possible moment to not torture myself a moment longer than absolutely necessary.
This is not exactly true if I'm wearing a tailored shirt with cuff links. They fit perfectly either way so I button top down to dress up and look fancy as soon as possible.
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.
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....
I start from the second-top button and work down. I don't need a mirror either and for me it's easier to line up the correct button and hole. Been doing it that way since I was a kid, so it's muscle memory at this point.
Generally bottom up. Any other way and I am invariably off by a button or two. Sometimes I'm very tired and lazy I start from the middle like some kind of deranged person, but it never ends well.
Top down, and I’ve never thought about why but one reason is I have a larger chest and broad shoulders so if it doesn’t fit there I don’t bother when trying them on for the first time and I guess just stick with it all time.
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.
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.