How to Sew on Dress Shirt Snap Buttons

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Andrew on behalf of Expert Village.com and today I am going to be showing you how to sew a button clasp onto a dress shirt with a cuff to wear. You can pull the button open or press it shirt without having to use one hand to fish the button through a slot. The next thing you want to do is begin to actually thread the button. So we have placed the mark on the back side. You want to place the center of the button over that mark. This is going to be just adjacent to the button that is already in that area. Then you want to take your needle and come in through the back side because that is where the material is going to build up and you do not want that to be showing on the outside. You Just want to go through the mark and come out through any one of the first holes and typically with these what I would do is unlike the buttons where you can form a criss- cross pattern. With these I just like to go between two on one side and then two on the other side and you are done. This side has a lot of holding force for this type of button and you just want to go back and forth and come back, and come up through the hole (the same hole I came out of) and then cross back over and keep doing that. Once I do that I just want to go across to the other holes on the other side of the clasp (you want to cross over again) and you just want to keep repeating the same pattern until you have made it your way all around the button. Now once you do that then you are on the back side you want to basically cut it off and repeat this same pattern with the other side of the clasp so that it is on the other side of the cuff. Once you are done, you just want to take the thread and slip if off and this works beautifully. You just snap it together and it looks the same and when you are done, you just pull it apart and you can pull your arm out of the sleeve. "