#Old school pearl snap shirts how to#

This way the snaps will line up when you go to put your shirt on. Holding the pin in place, lift your top layer and mark around the pin on the bottom layer. Next, put a pin in the place that you marked. Learn from my mistake!īefore you install your snaps, lay out your shirt as you plan to wear it with your plackets or cuffs aligned and mark the desired location of your snap with your marker. Once I doubled the layers, I didn’t have that problem any more, thankfully. I used a single layer of thin cardboard from a shoe box for my first snap. It’s pictured above near the top left of my flannel square.įirst, make sure that you have at least two thin layers of cardboard as a work surface under your snaps when you are setting them.

Here are some close-up pictures of the snap-setting tool I used.

Your shirt or whatever you are installing your snaps in (I’m using a double layer of flannel for this tutorial.).

Even so, I still had a cracked snap, but because I practiced, all the other snaps came out just right–all functional, and all in the correct location and right way out. I made sure to have extra snaps so I could practice putting them into scrap fabric before trying to install them in my shirt. Obviously I’m no expert, but I tested out a few ways of installing pearl snaps, and this was my favorite.īefore we begin, let me just say: it pays to practice.

#Old school pearl snap shirts how to#

I want to share how to install pearl snaps since there seemed to be some interest after I posted my latest flannel shirt featuring pearl snaps on the blog and on Instagram. Today’s post is a little bit different, but in a good way, I think.