https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:10:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250566 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 09:01:12 +0000 Sisi 2250566@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Clear. I understand that button-up, button-front and button through are the same thing (the various definitions made me confused)&nbsp; and the button-down has the collar buttoned to the shirt.&nbsp;<br />Thank you all! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250561 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:19:20 +0000 Jenni NZ 2250561@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just call them shirts. But on the forum since 2017 and also in real life that same year I heard the term button-down for shirts that have buttons all the way down the front. I assume button-up and button-through can mean the same thing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250557 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:25:27 +0000 rachylou 2250557@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Button through is for skirts and dresses, yes? With buttons all the way up and down, yes? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250501 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:12:36 +0000 Sal 2250501@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think of a shirt being crisp with a collar - a button down having the collar buttoned to the shirt, and a blouse being a woven top that isn’t a shirt - it could cover a buttoned silk top to an embroidered top that opened and closed at the back. Button downs are a sub set of shirts. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250500 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:05:17 +0000 Angie 2250500@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Exactly what <b>Suz </b>and <b>JAileen</b> said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Here are all my button down/up/through shirts in cotton and linen:&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250498 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:25:10 +0000 whidbeygirl 2250498@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I, too, am wondering: &nbsp;What's a button through? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250496 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:14:11 +0000 Suz 2250496@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mr. Suz, who grew up in Massachusetts, says that in menswear, button-down refers specifically to a shirt with a button down collar.&nbsp;</p> <p>So, in deference to his views, I say button-up or button-front to mean a shirt that buttons up the front but does not have a button down collar.&nbsp;</p> <p>On the subject of button down collars -- he likes them. I dislike them for myself because they make it harder to pop the collar!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250493 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:24:59 +0000 Helena 2250493@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sisi, what Jaileen said, and usually a button-up would be more of a crisper fabric (more akin to a traditional men's business shirt); if it's more drapey or silky, it tends to be called a blouse - at least in my understanding.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250492 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:07:32 +0000 JAileen 2250492@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Before I found YLF, a button down shirt meant a shirt with a collar that buttoned down to the shirt, as in #1. &nbsp;Here, though, button down just means a shirt that buttons down the front, as in #2. &nbsp;I don’t know what button through means. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-button-down-button-through#post-2250488 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:08:39 +0000 Sisi 2250488@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Today's Angie's post about shirts made me decide to ask something I wanted to ask since long time.<br />What do the different terms to describe a shirt mean ? I am not English mother tongue.&nbsp;<br />Thank you! </p>