How do you button your shirt?

[iago]

I'm a cholo, so I only button the very top button and leave the rest loose.

Ah, you wear it like a cape!

cholo = vampire?

[MyndFyre]

Today, I found out a new shirt that I bought recently wasn't button-down - it was snaps - except for the top!  Hail convenience!

[disco]

Today, I found out a new shirt that I bought recently wasn't button-down - it was snaps - except for the top!  Hail convenience!

It's a small thing, but I love the snaps.  So much less effort.

[while1]

Top to bottom.  Just because, going bottom to top doesn't have the advantage of gravity to keep each side flat and taut as I button up each.  Buttoning from the middle or randomly sometimes means I accidentally skip a button hole and then it's misaligned and I have to in the worst case, redo n - 1 buttons (normally it's less than n/2, but depends how awake I was at the time).

[Rule]

I do up bottom to top (like I said in the first post, it's easier to line up when I can see them), and I undo it from top to bottom (I don't really know why -- my guess is because it's the fastest way to free myself, since the first button = most comfort gain :) ).

What's the proper way to undo?

I don't know if there is a proper way to undo, although I'm sure top to bottom is most common (partly from most comfort gain).  I am guessing the bottom up people are doing it from zipper experience, so based on that, I would have guessed that you undo from top to bottom.  But the comfort gain factor probably trumps zipper habits (even though in this case they work in the same direction).

[Camel]

I usually do the second from the top button (see: gravity and strangle arguments), and then go to the bottom and work my way up. I always unbutton from the top down; same reason as iago gave.