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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.bio,net.women
Subject: Re: Left vs right brains
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 17:09:24 EST
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> Therefore, most women are cleverer with their left hands than
> they are with their right hands, which makes it easier
> for them to button right-over-left buttons than the other way
> around. This is why male shirts are left over right buttoned,
> while female shirts are right over left buttoned.

I realise this is being proposed tentatively, but I rather suspect the
reason for the mirror-image buttoning has to do with making it easier
for people to undress each other.  (And I've seen that explanation in
books on historical clothing.)
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D Gary Grady
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