I honestly never realized there was a correct side for the buttons.
Context: most clothes that needs to be buttoned has the buttons sewn on the RIGHT side of the clothing, because the majority of humanity was right-handed.
Context: most clothes that needs to be buttoned has the buttons sewn on the RIGHT side of the clothing, because the majority of humanity was right-handed.
This is only true for men's clothing. Shirts and jackets designed for women tend to have the buttons on the left.
Context: most clothes that needs to be buttoned has the buttons sewn on the RIGHT side of the clothing, because the majority of humanity was right-handed.
Apparently that's only one popular theory for it and that the actual reasoning for it has been lost to time. There are evidently other popular theories, including that it's a holdover from warfare where the shield is held on the left arm so armor overlapped from left-to-right so that there would not be gaps when blocking with the left arm and thus men's attire still today overlaps the same. Similarly it's been argued it's to make it easier for drawing a sword, as the sword would be on the left and drawn with the right hand, having clothing with a left-to-right overlap would prevent the sword getting caught in the clothing's opening when drawing the sword which led to manly attire retaining this same overlap.
This is only true for men's clothing. Shirts and jackets designed for women tend to have the buttons on the left.
Which in turn is theorized to be so that servants dressing women in super ornate clothes that people couldn't realistically put on their own could more easily button up the ladies...
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