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From: fire@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Albert C. Schultz)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Shirt buttons
Message-ID: <340@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 01:15:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 01:15:29 1985
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it seems to me that the practice of duelling with swords would encourage the
sewing of buttons on the left hand side of shirts.  consider: if a right handed
man wearing a shirt buttoned in the modern male style took up a fencing
stance, the spaces between the buttons through which his chest could be seen
would be facing his opponent (whew).  a sword point could pass through these
gaps without meeting any opposition and pierce our hero through the heart.
for this very reason, modern fencing jackets for both sexes (with buttons)
are buttoned in the female fashion.

					pret?  allez.  et la!

					albert schultz