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    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?

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    Top down, but saving the collar button for last.
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    Top down, otherwise it's easy to make a button-alignment error.
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    Can I chance a guess she spent the night with a charming stranger and wants to know where he's from, based on how he was buttoning his shirt the morning after?

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    Bottom-up, which for me just makes sense. Top-down would just feel weird.

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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.
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    How are Canadians supposed to button theirs?

    Top down is the safest way for me, regardless of which side of the 45th I'm on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Siosilvar View Post
    Top down, but saving the collar button for last.
    I do it this was as well.

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    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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    Top down, but saving the collar button for last.
    Bingo. I only button the collar though if I'm dressing up nicely. If it's a casual button-down scenario, I don't bother with the collar at all (it's usually a little tight; I have a large neck).

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    Bottom up. Top down feels weird, even if I'm less likely to miss buttons that way.

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    It's bottom-up for me.

    Just from a glance of the thread it doesn't look like there's any one specific trend down here.
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    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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    Top down, usually.

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    Top down, but saving the collar button for last.
    Me too. What is weirder to me is watching different people take off t-shirts.

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    Me too. What is weirder to me is watching different people take off t-shirts.
    For me, that's dependent on how my hair is. If it's braided like I normally wear it, I tend to invert it and remove it. If it's loose, I pull it over my back.
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    Me too. What is weirder to me is watching different people take off t-shirts.
    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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    Top down, to eliminate button alignment errors.
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    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.
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    top down, even on polo shirts where it dosn't really matter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Siosilvar View Post
    Top down, but saving the collar button for last.
    ...Before this question was asked, I thought everyone did it this way.

    Polo shirts or others with fewer buttons I might button bottom-up, though.

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    i don't button my shirts, i prefer the informal look
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tvtyrant View Post
    Me too. What is weirder to me is watching different people take off t-shirts.
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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.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Candle Jack View Post
    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.
    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.

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    Top down, otherwise it's easy to make a button-alignment error.
    Can I chance a guess she spent the night with a charming stranger and wants to know where he's from, based on how he was buttoning his shirt the morning after?
    That's why I was taught to button from the top-down.

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    Bingo. I only button the collar though if I'm dressing up nicely. If it's a casual button-down scenario, I don't bother with the collar at all (it's usually a little tight; I have a large neck).
    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.

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    i don't button my shirts, i prefer the informal look
    I hope you're wearing an undershirt, then.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mando Knight View Post
    ...Before this question was asked, I thought everyone did it this way.

    Polo shirts or others with fewer buttons I might button bottom-up, though.
    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.

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    Me too. What is weirder to me is watching different people take off t-shirts.
    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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    Bottom to top. Going top down seems like it would be kinda weird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coidzor View Post

    Are you sure she was batting her eyelashes at you to do this and not to get you to kiss de girl?
    Oh no, that subject has been broached before, and I'm firmly in the friend zone. Don't weep for me, though; I'd have expired from excessive nagging otherwise. :p
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    Quote Originally Posted by Candle Jack View Post
    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.
    Is this a Country Based thing? I'm U.S but I button from the bottom up.

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dienekes View Post
    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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