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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: buttons
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 15:08:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 15:08:05 1985
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Geez, where do you get your history?  Round about the time buttons were
invented, there wasn't a sizeable nobility whose women didn't have to dress
themselves.  Most people were peasants, and didn't have anyone to button
them up.

The only persons who consistantly dressed anybody were women who dressed
children, and children's clothes retained laces longer than adult clothes
since laces were more reliable fasteners than buttons.

The differentiation might have come from the time of the noble classes, but
there were as many servants to dress men as women, so that argument doesn't
make much sense.  Louis (the Sun King) probably never buttoned a button in
his life.