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Buttons As An Indicator Of Social Status
What’s the thing about button-downs? It’s straightforward and wouldn’t require too much thinking to wear one, so none of us probably paid too much attention to the differences in the button placements.
Men will observe that their tops would have buttons on the right, but the buttons line up on the left for women. According to Smithsonian Magazine, this may have stemmed during the period when girls had to be dressed by servants so to make it easier for the maids to do their jobs, the buttons were placed on the left, which is right when facing them.
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