Reasons For The Location Of Buttons For Men'S And Women'S Garments

Ya Ming Mei asked, "I have been curious for a long time. Why is the buttons of women's clothing always on the left side, while men's buttons are on the right? Buttons should also be divided into men and women?"

For different buying groups

It is not surprising that garment manufacturers adopt uniform standards for different functions.

Strangely enough, the standard applied by women is just the opposite of men's standards.

Men's standard is also very suitable for women. After all, more than 90% of the world's people are right-handed. It's much easier to buckle buttons with the right hand.

So, why are women's buttons on the left?

Actually, this is for historical reasons.

Button appeared around thirteenth Century, and was originally used as an ornament to sew on clothes.

Later, the ornaments were gradually developed into practical buttons, and were stitched on the clothes according to the order of the male right female left.

This is because women at that time, especially the upper class women, rely on their servants to help dress up their costumes. In order to facilitate the maid to dress up their hostess, they can fasten their buttons on the left side. The men wear buttons on the right side. One is to fasten their buttons for themselves. The two is to adapt to the medieval wrestle, and to hold the knife's right hand in the clothes to warm up and take out hidden weapons.

In this case, it seems that history is the final word.

When the buttons first came out, only the rich man's coat was buttoned.

According to the custom at that time, men wear their own clothes, while women wear their servants to help them.

The button on the lady's shirt was nailed to the left, which greatly served the servant of the hostess.

The buttons on men's shirts are on the right side, not only because most men wear their own clothes, but also because they pull out the sword hanging on their left waist with their right hands, so they are not easy to be caught by shirts.

Button found its practical value before it became the real button.

Then comes the nail method.

At that time, your wife, wife and young lady lived and dressed as servants.

In order to facilitate the buttresses on the opposite side of the servant, fasten buttons on the left side of the clothes, so that the servant can squeeze the buttons to the right hand and move them into the holes of the left hand.

In order to adapt to the needs of life and production, the women of the working class also fasten buttons on the left side of the clothes. Only in this way can they hold the children in their arms with their left hands.

The right side of the dress naturally covers the child's head, leaving the right hand to work.

At that time, because men often encounter the danger of fighting or fighting, in order to avoid holding the right hand of the sword cold or stiff, the right hand can easily take out the hidden device hidden in the clothes, the scissors will try to nail the buttons on the right side of the clothes so as to make it convenient.

In this way, the button "female left male right" nail law has become a tradition, which has been extended since the middle ages.

According to the data, the buttons made at the beginning are very simple. They are made of shells, screws, copper or gold, silver and wood. With the development of the handicraft industry, some people have invented the shape of a grape knot and so on.

Nowadays, there are still few women who are waiting for clothes to wear. Why are women's buttons still on the left side?

After all, ladies have long been used to button buttons from the left side. Once the buttons are changed to the right, they have to develop new habits and use new skills.

Apart from this practical difficulty, some ladies may also feel that wearing shirts with buttons on the right is embarrassing, because people who see them will think she is wearing a men's shirt.