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From: mike@asgb.UUCP (Mike Rosenlof)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Shirt buttons
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 14:55:54 EST
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> 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

Men's shirts historically button left over right so that a sword drawn
by a right handed person wouldn't snag on the shirt.  ( The sword
would be worn on the left side and drawn across the body. )  Why
women's are different then or now - ???


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