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From: costin_2@h-sc1.UUCP (dan costin)
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Subject: Re: Left vs right brains
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 08:51:49 EST
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> Subject: Re: Shirt buttons
> Newsgroups: net.women
> References: <1649@decwrl.UUCP>
> 
> > 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
> **********************************************************
> 
> A possible explanation comes from the biology of the brain. 
> 

And I always thought it was that way so you could open your MOTOS' shirt
easily.

-dc