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Artisian@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago

TIL: gendered button/zipper placement on clothes (and a guess at why)

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Artisian@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago
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Why are buttons and zippers on different sides of men’s and women’s clothes?
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Centuries-old habits shaped today’s fashion standards.
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    Wasnt it so that it was easier for the woman to do up the man’s buttons for them?

    Beside real men don’t button their own clothes.

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      I’d always heard it was the opposite. Women had help to get dressed so the buttons were positioned to make it easier for someone else but men had to do it themselves.

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        Women’s clothing also tends to have fasteners in the back. Corsets, bras, dresses, etc. Not a woman but I have undone my fair share of garments.

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          Not a woman but I have undone my fair share of garments.

          …ladies

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            Oh my god. Yeah, that sounded better in my head. Leaving it for posterity but I swear I’m not that guy.

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              If you want to sound like a creep, just add the word “Ladies” to the end of things that you say.

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        The article suggests that women had more complicated garb that required support staff.

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          Yeah this jives with what I remembered. And the images of a person pulling strings on a corset usually with a foot in her back for leverage. When you need another person and mechanical advantage to put on a garment, something is wrong somewhere.

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