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   Stephanie_Corina_Goddard | Dec 21, 2000 03:05pm | #1

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   Arlee, the "rule" (...meant to be broken, of course!) is that a shirt with a button band gets vertical buttonholes, all others get horizontal buttonholes. I have no idea why, except that a band usually isn't wide enough to accomodate horizontal holes. I wouldn't worry about it. Sometimes the type of button, the shape of the button, or the look of the garment requires that you go one way or the other. Do what works for you!

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   Karen_Vesk | Dec 22, 2000 02:42pm | #2

   *I agree with Stephanie, rules were made to be broken. The only reason I would not put a vertical buttonhole in certain cases is if the pull of the button would cause one edge of the buttonhole to stretch. In shirts, that is generally not an issue, because of the many layers of fabric and interfacing.Usually one tries to match the buttonholes to the design details of the garment - so for example, vertical stripes on a shirt looks best with vertical buttonholes, but a horizontal yoke on a dress may be better complimented by horizontal closings.

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   Ghillie_C | Jan 01, 2001 01:21pm | #3

   *The horizontal buttonhole at the top should stop the fronts of the shirts moving up and down and getting lop sided. The rest of the buttonholes are vertical so that there is no possibility of underwear or bare flesh showing if the shirt is pulled a bit tight.However, it gets done any which way now!Ghillie

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   Lee_Grillo | Jan 28, 2001 06:05pm | #4

   *I'm not confident with placement of buttonholes Help