Abstract: Apparatus and method for buttoning garments such as shirts including a frame supporting surface which supports the garment to be buttoned, such frame comprising a plurality of pairs of spaced plates for fixedly holding the buttonhole strip of the garment, a plurality of hook-shaped members positioned to extend through the buttonholes into contact with the button strip, a plate adjustably supporting the button strip so as to move the buttons into engagement with the extended hook-shaped members; the hook-shaped members and attached buttons being drawn through corresponding buttonholes, and the hook-shaped members and pairs of plates being disengaged from the buttoned garment.

Abstract: Apparatus for folding and pressing garments such as shirts includes a heated base plate for supporting the garment on its front or bodice; a holding plate hingedly attached to the collar end of the base plate; a center plate arranged at the tail end of the base plate and adapted to be moved above and over the base plate; a stripper plate hingedly attached to the tail end of said center plate; and side plates arranged at different levels above and along the sides of the base plate and center plate and adapted to fold the side portions of the garment over the center portion thereof supported by the base plate and center plate.