Have you ever worn a button-up shirt meant for another gender, and wondered why your fingers struggled with the buttons? It’s because men’s and women’s shirts are buttoned on opposite sides.

Not all shirts are created equal. People are just realizing that women’s shirt buttons are on the left side, while men’s are on the right — with many questioning these details.

SOME of us may have never realized that shirts button on different sides depending on who’s meant to wear them, let alone why. Gabrielle Jones is a vintage clothing connoisseur and has shared ...

Assuming that most people are right-handed, the buttons on women’s clothes were sewn so that someone else could fasten them. “Why women’s shirts button from the left, while men’s button ...

“SHIRT BUTTONS are linked to sexuality,” said Natalie Nudell, particularly when it comes to men’s shirts. Until at least Victorian times, said Ms. Nudell, an adjunct assistant professor who ...

Most men held their swords in their right hands, so needed to swiftly open their shirt for duelling and self-protection. As for why women’s shirts button on the left, it’s quite possibly ...

Historians have said men's buttons being on the right side of their shirts may be a legacy of the way suits of armour were designed in the Middle Ages. In their book 'The Art of Chivalry ...

MANY women are only just now realizing why their shirt buttons are on the left side – and why men’s clothing is the opposite. Have you ever wondered why menswear and womenswear tend to be sli… ...

Men's shirt buttons were originally placed on the right to make duelling easier, reflecting a time whenmen fought and women were expected to stay at home with their children.