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From: genesis@ihu1e.UUCP (R. Sehnoutka)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Shirt buttons
Message-ID: <431@ihu1e.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 17:14:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 17:14:02 1985
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> 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

This was because women in the olden days used to have matrons
who would dress them, and it was easier for them to button them
that way. Try buttoning a womens blouse yourself (as she wears it).

It buttons the same way that a man would button his shirt.


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