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How to button dress shirts

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What is the most common method to fasten buttons on your shirts? What is the best one?

Order-wise, do you start from the bottom or top - why and why not?

Direction-wise, do you position the button vertically and push it through the hole? if so, which side first - right or left?
 

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Top -> bottom. I feel stupid for reading and replying.
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I have buttons replaced with magnets. That saves time for (un)fastening, time that has value and can better be used for other purposes.
 

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Originally Posted by Mr. Moo
Top -> bottom.

I feel stupid for reading and replying.
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Thank you
Originally Posted by Tibo
I have buttons replaced with magnets. That saves time for (un)fastening, time that has value and can better be used for other purposes.
Like posting "how to" threads on the intrawebz?
 

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Originally Posted by gdl203
What is the most common method to fasten buttons on your shirts? What is the best one?

Order-wise, do you start from the bottom or top - why and why not?

Direction-wise, do you position the button vertically and push it through the hole? if so, which side first - right or left?


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+1, i can offer you assistance on how to tie your shoes.
 

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I get 8 or 9 of my friends together because I like to button them all at the same time.
 

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Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba
+1, i can offer you assistance on how to tie your shoes.

Left first than the right shoe? Or the other way 'round? I can never remember.
 

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I only unbutton the top three then slide the shirt over my head. Saves on wear and tear to the bottom buttons. Good thread
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I start at the middle and work up and down alternately, so: 4, 5, 3, 6, 2, 7, 1. And I push the buttons in left-first on odd-numbered days and right-side-first on even-numbered days to balance the wear that the buttons experience from being buttoned.
 

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I button the second-most button from the top and work my way down before finally fastening to top button.
 

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Originally Posted by grimslade
I start at the middle and work up and down alternately, so: 4, 5, 3, 6, 2, 7, 1. And I push the buttons in left-first on odd-numbered days and right-side-first on even-numbered days to balance the wear that the buttons experience from being buttoned.

I do exactly the same, except the opposite. Or rather the inverse.
 

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Originally Posted by gdl203
I do exactly the same, except the opposite. Or rather the inverse.

Wait--what?????

You button left to right on even days? My right, or yours? Only a noob does that. You'll ruin your buttons too. I bet you don't even condition them between wearings...
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I do it in front of a mirror, so I usually button left to right on odd days. My shirts are slowly getting stretched out on the left side due to the majority of months ending in 31 days. And leap years are a killer.
 

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