https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:12:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1711025 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 22:00:04 +0000 Jenn 1711025@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I call them all button-downs, but, to me, Oxford is a cloth, not a style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1711009 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:23:27 +0000 Diana 1711009@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I must admit that I use the terms interchangeably, and it drives my husband (who wears real button downs) nuts.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710989 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:11:31 +0000 JAileen 1710989@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachy, I posted a picture of Cary Grant wearing a button down with a tie. He looks polished to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710984 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 19:57:36 +0000 Anonymous 1710984@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is interesting. &nbsp;I thought they were all the same thing. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710981 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 19:54:37 +0000 rachylou 1710981@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have to hold forthwith more: ties with oxfords are preppy/academic and thus a little shabby. Classic but not polished classic. Not Sua-vé like Cary Grant Sua-vé </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710851 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 16:02:26 +0000 Angie 1710851@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What Suz said.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710838 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:26:31 +0000 Gail 1710838@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My Husband refuses to wear a shirt and tie unless it is a button down collar, he hates the spread, pointy &nbsp;and all the other types of collars.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710816 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:34:29 +0000 rachylou 1710816@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What I say?! I've never heard of 'a' button up. I've heard of being buttoned up...but this is somewhat different. And differentiated from being button down. Button down collars have always, in my world, required the whole phrase or been called oxfords, because they are.</p> <p>But that's right - no tie with an oxford. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710812 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:23:53 +0000 JAileen 1710812@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When I found YLF I was confused by the use of the term button down shirt. All my life it meant a shirt with buttons on the collar.</p> <p>Wearing ties with a button down shirt is common. There might be some controversy whether wearing a bow tie is okay with a button down shirt. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710811 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:23:46 +0000 Ledonna N. 1710811@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not a stupid question at all.&nbsp; It is a thing that comes and goes from my mind. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710773 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:20:33 +0000 harmonica 1710773@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great insights! Thank&nbsp; you, Suz and Mauvish! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710767 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:05:09 +0000 Suz 1710767@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Angie refers to all of them as button downs. But my husband (a New Englander by birth) told me the same thing that Mauvish said, so I differentiate. Button ups are those that....well...button up! And Button downs are those with collars that button down.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710756 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:41:49 +0000 Mauvish 1710756@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Also: apparently wearing ties with button down shirts is a No- No. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710755 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:39:18 +0000 Mauvish 1710755@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I recently learned the difference too. Any style of shirt which uses front buttons to close all the way up are button up shirt</p> <p>A button down shirt closes buttons in front AND have buttons on each side of collar</p> <p>So all button down shirts are button up but not all button up shirts are button down </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/button-up-or-down#post-1710752 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:24:24 +0000 harmonica 1710752@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is probably a very stupid question, but it is clothes related, so here goes:&nbsp; What's the difference between a button up shirt and a button down shirt? Is there any difference or is it the same? </p>