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2014-09-25, 06:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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A Question for Americans
Playground Citizens occupying the fair United States! This Canadian has a question:
Do you button your shirts from the top down, or the bottom up?
I ask for a friend. A very strange friend. I don't know why she wants to know, but I am compelled to obey when she bats her eyelashes at me.Last edited by Giggling Ghast; 2014-09-25 at 07:01 PM.
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2014-09-25, 07:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Top down, but saving the collar button for last.
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2014-09-25, 07:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-09-25, 07:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Bottom-up, which for me just makes sense. Top-down would just feel weird.
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2014-09-25, 07:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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I usually just button bottom up.
But that's just me.
Edit: Now that I really think about it, I actually go from top to bottom, and save the collar for last as well. It is kind of funny how you miss tiny details like that.Last edited by Drakeburn; 2014-09-25 at 10:07 PM.
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2014-09-25, 07:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
How are Canadians supposed to button theirs?
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2014-09-25, 07:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-09-25, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
I'm not nearly so consistent as to always do it in one way or the other. Sometimes I button from the top down, sometimes from the bottom up. I suppose that top down is probably slightly more common for me (and I also leave the collar button for last when I do that).
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2014-09-25, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-09-25, 07:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Bottom up. Top down feels weird, even if I'm less likely to miss buttons that way.
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2014-09-25, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's bottom-up for me.
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2014-09-25, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Pick a spot that seems to have the button and hole match and start buttoning, then get annoyed when the buttons don't line up and wonder why people bother with buttoned shirts to begin with when t-shirts are easier and more comfortable. Then I generally curse whoever thought fashion was a good idea. The bugger.
After that lengthy process, I generally just pick a side to re-align everything on a whim. Sometimes top sometimes bottom. I don't think there is a specific "American Way" to button shirts.
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2014-09-25, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Top down, usually.
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2014-09-25, 10:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Though it seems stupid to type to the entire Internet, I've kept bottom-to-top at heart because I know that's my path in life.
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2014-09-25, 11:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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This is something I have actually changed as an adult, at least to an extent. As a child and adolescent I used to pull one arm in (usually the right) then push it over my head from inside. However I started seeing someone when I was 21 who pulled t-shirts and jumpers off over her head without taking the arms out first and although I initially found it kind of funny I did come to realise that at least as far as delicate jumpers go it was less likely to stretch them than my previous method which did tend to pull at the sleeves a bit. With t-shirts it also tended to reverse them which was handy for washing if they were printed. So that's now my normal way of removing jumpers; I don't wear t-shirts much any more but when I do it varies and I use both methods depending on my mood.
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2014-09-25, 11:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Top down, to eliminate button alignment errors.
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2014-09-25, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Depends where I'm starting. If I'm just sitting around the house, I tend to have one of the middle buttons done, so I go from the middle up and then from the middle down.
If I'm putting it on to start with, it tends to be top down, saving the collar button for last (if I even button it at all).
Polo shirts and others that aren't full button-down shirts are always bottom up, though - just simpler when there's only two buttons.Avatar by FinnLassie
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2014-09-25, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
top down, even on polo shirts where it dosn't really matter.
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2014-09-26, 02:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Relevant to tangent: people insist that how men and women take off their shirts is a sign of differing psychological profiles or a differences of the sexes or whatever; the truth is that different types of shirts, even if they are all "t-shirts", are sized and cut differently. Women's shirts have less room in a lot of places and can't be removed in the same way as a man'a shirt.
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2014-09-26, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
I'm pretty sure that top-down is the "proper" way to do it in both the U.S., Britland, and territories formerly ruled by Britland. I generally try to be proper except for when I'm being purposefully improper with like-minded individuals.
Are you sure she was batting her eyelashes at you to do this and not to get you to kiss de girl?
That's why I was taught to button from the top-down.
Nah, that stuff doesn't work unless one is Sherlock Holmes and by then one would have identified the gentleman caller by the sexual techniques employed if not sooner than that.
I don't think you're supposed to button the collar unless you're wearing a tie, really. Well, or hanging it up. So I guess if you're wearing it, you only button the collar to see how the collar fits you when purchasing a shirt or making sure a shirt still fits or when wearing a tie. Properly anyway.
I hope you're wearing an undershirt, then.
Same here. I mean, once or twice for whatever reason I've started with the bottom but there was generally some reason, like I had to reach all the way down there. And with a torso like mine that's quite a ways. I mean, I guess when I've buttoned up shirts for girlfriends I've sometimes started from the bottom and worked my way up, but that was usually when they weren't wearing any pants at the time, so I wouldn't consider it exactly a neutral situation.
Polo shirts you always button from the bottom up, and you never actually button the top button unless it's for work and even then it's not that common. They're like the opposite of sport coats/blazers/suit jackets (and, IIRC, waistcoats) where the bottom button is never actually buttoned, though in some cases that bottom button has just been removed from the design... XD
Also regular coats and jackets too... I think I button from the bottom up with those most of the time because the part that I have to spend the most energy lining up is the bottom anyway and it helps close up the jacket/coat so I can get it on without having to fight the bulk as much after getting that first button buttoned.
That definitely has a lot more room for variation. XD And there's so many ways to do it and some that are in competition for fastest stripping and others that are competing for most seductive/sexiest...
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2014-09-26, 05:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
Bottom to top. Going top down seems like it would be kinda weird.
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From left to right, unless married filing jointly, or there are fewer than two outs with men on base. Then from the inside to the outside.
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2014-09-26, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A Question for Americans
I am going to say that I button up shirts really weird, and it entirely depends on the kind of shirts.
With actual button shirts with small buttons, I start from the second to bottom button, then button upwards, only buttoning every third button. Then, after reaching the top, I randomly fill in the rest, leaving the very bottom button for last nearly every time (even after the collar button, which I sometimes fill in second-to-last).
With shirt-things that have snaps instead of buttons, I start from the top and go down.
With buttoned shirts that have large buttons, I start around the third from the bottom and then I button together whichever ones seem to line up first.
If it has a zipper and buttons, though, I just start from the bottom and zip it up and ignore half the buttons.
If it's the kind of shirt that only has two or three buttons on it, I start at the bottom always.Last edited by 5a Violista; 2014-09-26 at 11:44 AM.
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