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Shirts with buttons on them...
What do you call them - button-ups or button-downs?
Got into this convo with a friend the other day - wondering what YOU call them.
Me, personally, I call them button-downs, even though I start from the bottom and work my way up. 
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Posted 4/16/09 8:38 PM  |
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PennyCat
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Jib
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
I say "button down" but I promise I'm an optimist!!!  (if that subconsciously means anything in this case!!)
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| Posted 4/16/09 8:40 PM |
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chrisnjoe8108
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
I say button down too
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| Posted 4/16/09 8:45 PM |
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MissJones
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
I call them button down but that's the order I buttom them!
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| Posted 4/16/09 9:07 PM |
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
button-downs!
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| Posted 4/16/09 9:31 PM |
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Dream426
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Gina Marie
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
I call them button downs.
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| Posted 4/16/09 9:36 PM |
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sticklee
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
button down
i never even heard of "button up" 
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| Posted 4/16/09 10:04 PM |
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mathteach
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Christine
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
I call them button downs but I tell my DS to button up his shirt.
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| Posted 4/17/09 2:06 PM |
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Wendy
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
I call it a blouse or dress shirt ... I call shirts that BUTTON DOWN at the collar points, button-downs.
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| Posted 4/17/09 2:10 PM |
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Jenn627
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Jenn
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
On me - it's a dress shirt, on DH - it's a button-down.
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| Posted 4/17/09 2:11 PM |
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Chatham-Chick
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
Posted by Wendy
I call it a blouse or dress shirt ... I call shirts that BUTTON DOWN at the collar points, button-downs.
That's pretty much line of thinking. DH has a lot of button down shirts, but when I say "Dress Shirt" it means a button down shirt that doesn't have a button down collar and most likely has french cuffs/convertible cuffs. If I refer to his shirt as a "Button Down", then I'm referring to a casual shirt that has a button down collar. Usually when I refer to a "Button Down" on here (LIF), I'm talking about shirts with buttons in general and not any specific type.
But to answer the original question...I've never heard of a shirt with buttons referred to as a Button Up.
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| Posted 4/17/09 3:12 PM |
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krwm
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
botton-down...never heard of button ups
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| Posted 4/17/09 3:57 PM |
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CunningOne
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
Button down. I've never even heard the term button up!
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| Posted 4/18/09 9:31 AM |
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clmj2
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
Posted by chmlengr
Button down. I've never even heard the term button up!
funny thing, ive never heard of the term button down!!! its ALWAYS button up...maybe its another Canadianism lol
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| Posted 4/18/09 1:55 PM |
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DayDay
Livin' the Good Life....
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Dayna
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
I say button down
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| Posted 4/18/09 4:09 PM |
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KarenG2003
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
Like PPs have said, I have never heard anyone refer to a shirt with buttons as a "button-up shirt".
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| Posted 4/18/09 9:07 PM |
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
Posted by KarenG2003
Like PPs have said, I have never heard anyone refer to a shirt with buttons as a "button-up shirt".
I know - it was the strangest thing! She was INSISTING that that was what they are called!
Glad to know no one else has heard of that term either! 
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| Posted 4/20/09 10:41 AM |
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Sash
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Re: Shirts with buttons on them...
Posted by MissJones
I call them button down but that's the order I buttom them!
Same here
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| Posted 4/20/09 1:34 PM |
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