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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Shirt buttons
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 11:18:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 11:18:27 1985
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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

    Maybe it makes it easier for people of the opposite sex to unbutton
each other?
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    "Oh no.  It wasn't the airplanes.  'Twas beauty killed the beast."-King K.