✨ ELEVATE ✨ Your Button Down Shirts With This Awesome Hack!

Jessica Shaw
by Jessica Shaw

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If you are looking for ways to elevate your button-down shirts, check out this simple, but awesome hack.

Tools and materials: 

It's missing something

1. Start with a shirt

Pick out any button-down shirt from your wardrobe.


Is it missing some oomph? Then get ready for this hack.

Wide ribbon

2. Choose a ribbon

Pick out some fashion ribbon that is a couple of inches wide and coordinates or matches with your button-down shirt.


If your shirt has a pattern, pick a matching solid color.


If your shirt is a plain, choose any coordinating solid-colored or patterned ribbon.

Safety pin

3. Attach the ribbon to your short

Start with a large safety pin.

Button-down shirt hack

Attach the safety pin to the side-seam of your shirt, at the waist.

Button-down shirt hack

Undo the short button at the waistline, and thread one end of the ribbon through the buttonhole.

Button-down shirt hack

Then, thread the ribbon through the safety pin, as though it was a belt loop.

Button-down shirt hack

Bring the back end of the ribbon forward, and tie it with the end of the ribbon that went through the buttonhole.

Note, that the ribbon is not going around the back of your waist.

Button-down shirt hack

Cinch the ribbon at your waist and tie a bow.

Button-down shirt hack

Now your shirt has a bit of wrap-around look to it, with that stunning bow accessory.

Button-down shirt hack

Button-down shirt hack

Here is a close-up. I think it looks gorgeous - how about you? Leave a comment to let me know.

Ribbli Black Satin Ribbon 4 Inch Wide

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