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How do you button your shirt, and why?

Top to bottom
6 (33.3%)
Bottom to top
6 (33.3%)
From the middle to the outside
4 (22.2%)
Randomly
0 (0%)
I don't wear button up shirts. Nerd!
2 (11.1%)

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Offline iago

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Re: How do you button your shirt?
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2009, 03:26:47 pm »
I'm a cholo, so I only button the very top button and leave the rest loose.
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Re: How do you button your shirt?
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2009, 05:06:27 pm »
Today, I found out a new shirt that I bought recently wasn't button-down - it was snaps - except for the top!  Hail convenience!
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Re: How do you button your shirt?
« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2009, 06:00:13 pm »
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.

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Re: How do you button your shirt?
« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2009, 06:15:11 pm »
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).
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Re: How do you button your shirt?
« Reply #19 on: July 12, 2009, 07:06:53 pm »
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).
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Re: How do you button your shirt?
« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2009, 05:59:20 pm »
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.

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