How to fix a hole in a Dress Shirt Collar

How do I fix that?!

                               

(This is the top of a boys dress shirt where the top button should be.)

Buttons falling off clothes I make is normally not an issue for me.  However, I have replaced the buttons on clothes we have bought.  It’s not normally a complicated fix or even that time consuming.

So what do you do when there is not only no button there but there is also a hole in the clothes where the button should go? How do I fix that?

Here is what I did. Hope it helps.

Step #1

I cut a strip of canvas in the shape of a rectangle.

Step #2

I folded the canvas in a tri-fold. Like what is used when folding a letter.

Step #3

 

 

I stitched down the canvas to the underside of the shirt along the seams.

Step#4

I sewed a button down to where it had previously been onto the canvas.

Shirt fixed

(I think this might be the only serious picture I have of this child)

This took me about 15 minutes and seemed a much better solution to me than buying or making a dress shirt. Especially since I think he has two months (max) left in this size shirt.

Materials

Canvas rectangle-scrap from another project 0.00

White thread- left over from another project  0.00

White button- left over from another project  0.00

Total Cost

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