I absolutely love the shirt, style, and patches!!! However, I loathe the buttons. They are itsy bitsy teeny tiny to be on a $125 flannel in my opinion. They are a challenge for my digits to button and can't imagine trying to do this with arthritis.
Material is super heavy, incredibly soft, and will shrink on it's first cycle. All given, I still rank this as a 10/10 on purchase decision and would have given it 6 stars if it had buttons of the same quality and heft of the rest of the shirt.