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From: chu@lasspvax.UUCP (Clare Chu)
Newsgroups: net.bio,net.women
Subject: Re: Left vs right brains
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Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 14:52:45 EST
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In article <> aouriri@ittvax.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri) writes:
>Subject: Re: Shirt buttons
>Newsgroups: net.women
>References: <1649@decwrl.UUCP>
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>> 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
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>A possible explanation comes from the biology of the brain. 

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 I know this has nothing to do with biology, but the reason women's shirts
 are buttoned right over left is that in the old days a woman was dressed
 by her maid and a man dresses himself.  

  Clare