Dear Doctor Science,
Why do women's shirts button on the left and men's shirts button on the
right?
-- John Sjoberg from Iowa City, IA
This has to do with the left brain/right brain thing. At one time,
fashion designers from Italy designed shirts for men which buttoned on
the left.The country was left nearly depopulated when thousands of men
strangled intheir own clothing, their sleeves tied around their
throats. Some victims had actually tried to put their heads through a
button hole. When women were forced to wear right-buttoned clothing,
they burned their underwear,screamed through bullhorns and created
long, meaningless "dance poems."Luckily, the Nehru jacket was
introduced just in time, and the reaction it caused made everyone
forget about alternative buttoning. Yes, men and women are different.
If we forget that scientific fact, it spells big trouble, more dance
poems and hapless, strangled macho.
Why do women's shirts button on the left and men's shirts button on the
right?
-- John Sjoberg from Iowa City, IA
This has to do with the left brain/right brain thing. At one time,
fashion designers from Italy designed shirts for men which buttoned on
the left.The country was left nearly depopulated when thousands of men
strangled intheir own clothing, their sleeves tied around their
throats. Some victims had actually tried to put their heads through a
button hole. When women were forced to wear right-buttoned clothing,
they burned their underwear,screamed through bullhorns and created
long, meaningless "dance poems."Luckily, the Nehru jacket was
introduced just in time, and the reaction it caused made everyone
forget about alternative buttoning. Yes, men and women are different.
If we forget that scientific fact, it spells big trouble, more dance
poems and hapless, strangled macho.