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From: trz@drume.UUCP (ZehrbachT)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Shirt buttons - Cuff buttons on men's suitcoats
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 10:29:36 EST
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     I have also heard that Napolean (sp?) used buttons-on-the-sleeves
as a way to keep his officers from wiping their noses on their sleeves,
but the (many) buttons were sewn on to the FRONT of the sleeves. 
     I presume the reason there are buttons on men's suitcoats today
is because they used to be functional and now they are kept for            
ornamentation.


                                 Tom Zehrbach