Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-satan!clayton From: clayton@satan.DEC Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Shirt buttons Message-ID: <1649@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 14:24:25 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1649 Posted: Fri Apr 12 14:24:25 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 03:45:57 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 8 This has been bugging me lately... Does anyone know why (historically and currently) women's shirts button right over left and men's button left over right (or is it vice versa)? Why make the thing differently depending on who is supposed to wear it? Elizabeth Clayton ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-satan!clayton