# DO you unbutton your shirt before removing it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035 "2003-09-26T20:02:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/21 "2003-09-27T16:35:35Z")
Laziness? Gosh, I never though of it as laziness. I don’t even remember what led to my de-shirting in this manner. I suppose it could have been laziness… > [@](#): > > Unbuttoning just a couple of buttons and pulling it over your head is not sexy. Agreed, but I wasn’t trying to be sexy for the guy in the changing room (ew). If I’m with someone I don’t take off my shirt at all. I let him do it for me. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/22 "2003-09-28T01:35:24Z")
Who are you people? I’m siding with **Amp** on this one – these things you do with clothes are not natural. I’m as lazy as the next guy, and in fact I revel in some of my lazy habits. But this is just wrong. (Okay, I’ll give it a try. But I’m not promising anything.) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/23 "2003-09-28T02:08:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by friedo \* > \*\*Hamper? \*\* From what I can gather following extensive research, it’s what most of us call the “floor”. More specifically, a portion of the floor reserved for a pile of dirty clothes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/24 "2003-09-28T02:18:13Z")
I keep them permanently buttoned, but I also wear shirts that are slightly oversized. ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/25 "2003-09-28T02:45:29Z")
I don’t unbutton them, but I do unbutton them before they go to the cleaners because I think it is mean to expect the cleaning people to undo my buttons. I’m a pretty skinny guy, so there is no fear of ripping the shirt… ---
**Author:** ![Not\_In\_Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@Not\_In\_Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_In_Anger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/26 "2003-09-28T05:30:46Z")
Who are “The Cleaners”? That sounds sinister. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/27 "2003-09-28T05:31:44Z")
I find it much easier to merely teleport out of my shirt. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/28 "2003-09-28T11:38:13Z")
I must say that I, as a woman, am amazed at how many guys have weighed in on the side of “just undo the top buttons and pull it over your head”. I, as a rule, only wear button-up shirts as overshirts, and therefore, don’t button them at all. But, pre-AIDS, when it was perfectly acceptable to be a “loose woman”, I watched **plenty** of guys undress, and not **one** of them did it this way. My hubby is as lazy as they come, when it comes to household/personal grooming type stuff, but even he doesn’t do this (although I will admit that it may well be because he’s never thought of it). ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035/29 "2003-09-28T15:36:48Z")
I started just undoing the top few buttons and pulling the shirt off over my head when a wonderful woman I was with did not want to **wait** for me to unbutton completely. I’ve kept doing it that way because I believe laziness is something well worth perfecting. It’s an art I intend to work at for the rest of my days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unbutton-your-shirt-before-removing-it/204035.md?page=1)