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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Shirt buttons
Message-ID: <242@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 18:03:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 14 18:03:05 1985
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> 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

	The only explanation I have ever heard for this was some
mumbo-jumbo about breast-feeding which didn't make alot of sense.
I mean, why should the buttons matter ? You have to get to both of
them eventually. Interestingly enough, I have some shirts sized for
women made by a mens' shirt manufacturer in which the buttons are on
the same size as on mens' shirts.
-- 
  

jcpatilla

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