2. Hold the button about ⅛ inch away from the shirt and thread the needle up through one hole in the button and down the diagonally opposite hole. Do the same with the other holes and then ...

Every man should own a button-down oxford shirt ... to quality, is the shirt pattern — it’s their blueprint for shirt construction. A pattern makes up all the shirts’ components and how those ...

has been attending sewing classes for over a year. Aaron Gouveia of Franklin, Massachusetts, was shocked when his 9-year-old son, Sam, gifted him a button-down shirt he had sewn himself.