# horizontal buttonhole?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horizontal-buttonhole/752401>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horizontal-buttonhole/752401 "2016-04-16T20:30:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horizontal-buttonhole/752401/41 "2016-04-20T22:47:44Z")

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Getting back to the OP, I find that the horizontal buttonhole at the bottom makes it less likely that I button my shirt incorrectly. I feel down the left side of my shirt until I come to the horizontal hole and then match up the bottom button.

Yes, I could look. But where’s the fun in that?

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**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horizontal-buttonhole/752401/42 "2016-04-21T00:14:17Z")

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None of my favorite dress shirts (Charles Tyrwhitt) has the bottom buttonhole in a horizontal orientation. My two crappy dress shirts (Tommy Hilfiger) have the vertical bottom buttonholes.

My butthole is not a part of this conversation, thank you very much.

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horizontal-buttonhole/752401/43 "2016-04-21T05:12:20Z")

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> [@TroutMan](#):
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> :o Read it wrong at first too. What is wrong with all of us that we read it that way, and more importantly what is wrong with us that we clicked on it?

Yeah, I’d been reading it wrong for days and figured I really didn’t wanna know about it. But then I threw in the towel, because who could talk this long and much over a horizontal butthole?? Gah. And even now as I try to read the posts, I’m still reading butthole instead of buttonhole. Make. It. Stop.

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horizontal-buttonhole/752401/44 "2016-04-21T06:43:45Z")

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\*closes eyes, touches thumbs to index fingers, crosses legs into full lotus position and WISHES THIS THREAD TO THE CORNFIELD! Over and over and over again.

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horizontal-buttonhole/752401/45 "2016-04-21T13:28:10Z")

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> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> Not only did I misread the title like so many others, but I misread it EVERY…SINGLE…TIME I scroll through the thread list. EVERY TIME!

+1  
ETA: tells you something about SD, in our defense  
ETA2: I so want to post a thread with the properly-read title, but can’t think of a topic germane enough to let it get by. Maybe IMHO can accommodate a thought on it.

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