Artisian@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoTIL: gendered button/zipper placement on clothes (and a guess at why)theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up1209arrow-down112
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minus-squareTudsamfa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-27 days agoI was told the reason is so that men can better undress their female partners. Which is of course problematic, but I think a better explanation than “men dressed themselves, women didn’t”.
minus-squareBlueberryWalnut@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoI was told the opposite - that females assisted men with getting dressed, so the buttons were the orientation they were used to on their own garments
I was told the reason is so that men can better undress their female partners. Which is of course problematic, but I think a better explanation than “men dressed themselves, women didn’t”.
I was told the opposite - that females assisted men with getting dressed, so the buttons were the orientation they were used to on their own garments