2006-08-04 09:00:55 · 15 answers · asked by popcorn 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Card Games
You are not really skillful are you?? Why don't you rip it off of her?That'd be sooooooooo sexy!!
2006-08-04 14:15:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you are wearing a shirt, and look down, a woman's shirt will have the buttons on the left side. If you are wearing a man's shirt it will have the buttons on the right side.
This comes from a long time ago. Kings and other royalty would have their servants button up their clothes for them. Since the servants were in front of the person as they put their clothes on, the buttons were sewn on the opposite side to make it easier (and more normal) for them to do.
And the tradition stuck......
2006-08-04 16:08:29 · answer #2 · answered by Steve S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It most likely stems from the days of the Nobility in England. A proper gentleman never, ever dressed himself...his valet did it for him. Since this is a right-handed world it was easier to put the buttons on the right (of the person being dressed) of the shirt or blouse and thus made it easier for the valet to button up the shirt.
In those days a lady of proper upbringing dressed herself, as was the custom. Her maid would help her don her clothes but the "lady" would button them herself. The buttons would be on the left side (of the person being dressed) of the garment making it easier for "milady" to button them.
2006-08-04 16:09:26 · answer #3 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The button scheme is actually a holdover from the Middle Ages, I've heard. Men's buttons are on the right because it's easier to unbutton with their left hand, a necessity in the days when sword fights were a common way of settling personal disputes. While they unbuttoned their coats with their left hands, they were drawing the sword with their right.
Women's buttons are on the left because, by and large, they wouldn't draw swords.
2006-08-04 16:07:15 · answer #4 · answered by ensign183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
men's shirt buttons are on theopposite side because years ago "gentlemen" had dressers - people who would assist them in getting dressed, and it was easier for the buttoner for the buttons to be configured that way, assuming most people were right-handed.
2006-08-04 16:07:25 · answer #5 · answered by woodlands127 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ugh, I hate to admit it but I know the answer: Back in olden days, the high-hierarchy women had ladies in waiting to dress and button up the their garments. The buttons are made opposite because it was easier for the ladies in waiting to button up their mistress. And it never changed when women had to button up for themselves.
2006-08-04 16:06:46 · answer #6 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because in the olden days women (who could afford button-up shirts) had people who dressed them. Their buttons were put on for the ease of the person dressing them. Wierd huh?
2006-08-04 16:05:35 · answer #7 · answered by zqizzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because back in the old days the "ladies" had handmaidens to help them dress and it was easier for the handmaidens to button and unbutton their clothes.
2006-08-04 16:08:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So a man can undress a woman. We are not very coordinated
2006-08-04 16:18:40 · answer #9 · answered by terry h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that the men find it easier to unbutton them!
2006-08-04 16:06:12 · answer #10 · answered by zeeker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋