If it is complete button up shirt, with buttons holding the entire shirt closed, top to bottom. If it is a polo, bottom to top. Both are for the same reason; it sucks getting them miss-aligned.
Chaotic neutral option: I start mid-chest and go every other (or every third) down, then come back up (except when I go back to where I started and go up, then back down).
This gives me some extra speed at determining if I am feeling good about that shirt that day before fully committing to all the buttons. And rare misalignment is more easily corrected.
I was today years old when I learned bottom to top was an option. I would 100% misbutton the shirt so badly, if I did it that way, that it would take a world-renown topologist to resolve, probably earning them a Nobel Prize.
On the rare occasion I wear a shirt, it's top to bottom for me, because I feel I'm in control of what goes on with my collar.
However with cardigans I go bottom to top because I can't trust myself to not miss a button. I typically don't miss a button on a shirt because I pull on the fabric to make it look neater, whereas a cardigan is a more relaxed fit so it's easier to skip a buttonhole.
18 Comments
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 360d
Top to bottom so I don't misalign the holes. At the bottom it's too easy to mistake the second one up for the bottom hole.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 360d
I do bottom to top for the exact same reasons…
It’s too easy to mistake the top holes if you don’t button the collar, but you can never have that problem from the bottom.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 360d
I can. 😅
DaGeek247@fedia.io · 3 pts · 359d
If it is complete button up shirt, with buttons holding the entire shirt closed, top to bottom. If it is a polo, bottom to top. Both are for the same reason; it sucks getting them miss-aligned.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 359d
Yeah I wasn't even picturing polo shirts, just oxfords. I only button the bottom 1 button, perhaps 2, so I'd start at the bottom there. Good call.
Botzo@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 360d
Chaotic neutral option: I start mid-chest and go every other (or every third) down, then come back up (except when I go back to where I started and go up, then back down).
This gives me some extra speed at determining if I am feeling good about that shirt that day before fully committing to all the buttons. And rare misalignment is more easily corrected.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 360d
I thought I would be alone in this. This is how I do it.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 360d
This should be a proper life hack.
perishthethought@piefed.social · 1 pts · 360d
Middle Out
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 360d
I was today years old when I learned bottom to top was an option. I would 100% misbutton the shirt so badly, if I did it that way, that it would take a world-renown topologist to resolve, probably earning them a Nobel Prize.
hungrythirstyhorny@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 359d
good for you...
matelt@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 360d
On the rare occasion I wear a shirt, it's top to bottom for me, because I feel I'm in control of what goes on with my collar.
However with cardigans I go bottom to top because I can't trust myself to not miss a button. I typically don't miss a button on a shirt because I pull on the fabric to make it look neater, whereas a cardigan is a more relaxed fit so it's easier to skip a buttonhole.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 360d
Top to bottom. Very easy to know you're starting with the button just below the "choke point". Then you won't miss a button on the way down.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social · 5 pts · 359d
Top to bottom.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 5 pts · 360d
Start with the third button from the top and work down.
You are less likely to miss a button that way.
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 360d
hungrythirstyhorny@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
right, me too but idk, lot of my friends told me that im weird, cos i buttoned my shirt from the bottom..
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
iii@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 360d
Bottom to top, no idea why
Today@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 360d
I read an article on funny differences awhile back Women tend to button top down. Men tend to button bottom up.
Women tend to face away from the shower water. Men tend to face into it.
Women tend to hold a stabbing knife with the blade towards the pinkie. Men tend to hold a stabbing knife with the blade towards the thumb.
I've switched to the boy way of knife holding.