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From: bandy@lll-crg.ARPA (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Shirt buttons
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 06:44:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 06:44:53 1985
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What I heard was that women were usually dressed by a servant
so the buttoning was reversed for the dresser's convenience.

If I wanted to get paranoid, I could think that the left over right
vs right over left isn't only a way to keep down left-handed men, but
also a way to mess up right-handed women, thereby helping to keep them
in their place...
-- 
andy beals
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