SWMBO just related to me a bit of trivia I had never known, and a look of dismay that I didn't know it..........
I was at a store and on display in the women's section were some shirts of her favorite team, so I got her a golf polo in small size. I got home and pulled it out of the bag to give it to her, and she says, "that's a mans shirt".
"No it was in the women's section" I say.
She points to it and says, "look it has men's buttons"
"Men's buttons?"
"yep, on the right, women's on the left"
I never knew that,,,,,,,,
she just shakes her head........
Oh, I know full well about that. I had a female boss that hated that fact.
Think about it though, the mens are made for a right handed person, the ladies left handed. But, only about 20% of people are left handed.
Ladies zippered jackets are backwards also.
I remember hearing a long time ago it had something to do with a woman holding a baby in one arm.
> "No it was in the women's section" I say.
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> She points to it and says, "look it has men's buttons"
I'd send it to Bruce Jenner.
Just had to do that huh? Guess my app isn't working, it should have blocked you
Dang. I knew that by the time I was six years old. Probably because I had an older sister whose blouses didn't button like my shirts. Most of those were made by my mother. That was also the days when the rare pair of jeans for females had a zipper on one hip instead of in the front where males needed the zipper to be located. One of the stupidest inventions I ever noticed was the female blouse where all of the buttons ran up the back instead of up the front.
Hun! Seems you spent a lot of time with your mother and sister growing up. Who was the oldest? Your sister or you?
She had a 6-1/2 year lead on me and we were the only youngun's. Until I was 8 and spent the next ten years driving a tractor I was stuck around the homestead most of the time. Nearest kids were over a half-mile distant and most of them were around her age, not mine. Many were the times when she would have a bunch of her friends over to our house. That's the sort of punishment that'll make a young boy volunteer to go chop cottonweed out of the milo all day.
LOL!!! I had that feeling!
> Just had to do that huh? Guess my app isn't working, it should have blocked you
Well, I'm positive that Bruce would have put those buttons on both ways and could give an authoritative opinion beyond just the usual "he said, she said" you mentioned. :>
I was one of the smaller guys in a volunteer fire company. When they were looking for turnout gear for me, they found a nice new set that fit me just fine, but it was marked "ladies". The only difference was the jacket flap (closed with Velcro) that covered the zipper so it wouldn't freeze. It was attached along the right edge; men's turnout gear had it attached along the left edge.
Unless you buy clothing marked European sizing or European cut.
European sizing / cut is slimmer than North American sizing, and all the buttons/zippers are the same size as ladies.
Around here, you might see it on outdoor gear, ski jackets, soft shells, etcetera.
I think I knew that but it was probably stored in the temporary cache of my brain somewhere at sometime.
I would hope that it was done this way to make it easier to undress each other.
Aloha, MM:
Got curious...so did what we all naturally do--goggled it:-D
"Though there’s no historical record or museum with an exhibit devoted to buttons (and/or factual logic as to why a person’s sex would have anything to do with said buttons’ orientation), most sources seem to cite the same simple rationale that dates back over a century.
Mens’ buttons are on the right side because men have always tended to dress themselves and most men (and women, for that matter) are right-handed.
Womens’ buttons are on the left side because years ago (say, during the Victorian Era), the women that could afford fancy clothing with a bunch of buttons would rely on maids to help dress them. So, if a servant (most of whom, naturally, would be right-handed) is going to routinely buttoning up a shirt/dress for someone else, that servant is going to prefer to have the buttons on their right side (which would be the left side of the garment)."
