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From: mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Shirt buttons
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 08:02:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 08:02:29 1985
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> In article <362@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
> >>	BTW, do you know why men's suitcoats have buttons on the
> >>sleeves?
> >
> >My understanding is that Napoleon invented that design  to  discourage  his
> >officers from wiping their noses on their sleeves.
> 
> i have seen paintings from the mid-18th century that have the buttons
> already.  whether Napoleon actually invented is highly unlikely, but
> i have heard the same reasons for having them.  certainly they were invented
> around or just before Napoleon's time.
> 
> Herb Chong...
> 
> I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

 I recently (within the last month) heard Paul Harvey give the
explaination of soldiers wiping their noses on their sleeves in
Napoleon's Army.  It seems that it is well know fact that Napoleon was
the ultimate neat-freak, and this was the easiset way he could think of
to solve the problem......

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